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He recommended mathematical instrument maker and aspiring civil engineer, John Smeaton, who was introduced to Weston in February 1756. In May, following a series of visits to the rock, Smeaton proposed that the new lighthouse should be built of stone and modelled on the shape of an oak tree.
Há 3 dias · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
O terceiro (Smeaton) é o mais conhecido, reconhecido por sua influência no desenho de faróis e sua importância no desenvolvimento do concreto para a construção; suas partes superiores foram reerguidas em Plymouth como um monumento. [5]
10 de mai. de 2014 · After the timber and stone lighthouse built on the Eddystone rocks by John Rudyerd was destroyed by fire in 1755, the Eddystone proprietors, who held a lease from Trinity House, chose John Smeaton to build a replacement.
In 1756 Yorkshireman John Smeaton, recommended by the Royal Society, travelled to Plymouth on an assignment which was to capture the imagination of the world. He had decided to construct a tower based on the shape of an English Oak tree for strength but made of stone rather than wood.
The building of the Eddystone Lighthouse is undoubtedly the project that made John Smeaton famous. His iconic design was the third lighthouse to stand upon the small but dangerous Eddystone Rocks 13 miles off the coast of Plymouth.
29 de out. de 2023 · Charged with designing a new lighthouse on Eddystone Rocks, Smeaton took inspiration from the tapered trunk of an oak tree combined with masonry which mimicked the kerbstones of London's...
