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  1. Hace 4 días · John Smeaton (born June 8, 1724, Austhorpe, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Oct. 28, 1792, Austhorpe) was an English engineer noted for his all-masonry lighthouse on Eddystone reef off Plymouth, Devon, and as the founder of the civil-engineering profession in Great Britain.

    • John Smeaton

      (1724–92). English engineer John Smeaton designed the...

  2. 16 de may. de 2024 · Born three hundred years ago, John Smeaton was the first person to call himself a civil engineer, whose design for the third Eddystone Lighthouse has ensured his immortality.

  3. Hace 5 días · He became an engineer, responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours, and lighthouses and founded the Society (forerunner of the Institution) of Civil Engineers in 1771, (to distinguish them from military engineers).

  4. 13 de may. de 2024 · John Smeaton (1724 – 1792) John Smeaton was the first Englishman to describe himself as a civil engineer. He wanted to gather other like minds to discuss their interests so he set up the Society of Civil Engineers in 1771.

  5. Hace 5 días · Beginning with an account of famed British engineer John Smeaton’s studies on waterwheels, the reader is taken on a journey through some of the most thorough investigations of industrial machinery staged at engineering institutions in France and America up to the mid-19th century.

  6. 20 de may. de 2024 · How John Smeaton helped transform expert testimony. In 1782, John Smeaton’s evidence on the decay of Wells Harbour marks the formal beginning of the scientific expert witness. John Smeaton was often called to court to share his scientific expertise.

  7. 24 de may. de 2024 · The earliest steam pumping station in the United States in Philadelphia in 1801 was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe who had trained with the great British civil engineer John Smeaton (1724-1792), while his assistant had studied under Samuel Wyatt, architect and engineer (1737-1807).