Joseph Danly

Joseph Barbe Léonard Danly (19 March 1839 – 1899) was a Belgian engineer and businessperson. The operator of a forge in Aiseau, Belgium, in the 1880s he patented a construction system for prefabricated iron buildings known as the Danly system. Considered to be highly sophisticated in comparison with other prefabricated iron building systems of that era, the Danly system was originally intended for use in the colony of Belgian Congo, but was also extensively used in other African colonies as well as in Latin America.