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Há 3 dias · 2024 marks the 300th Anniversary of the birth of the noted engineer and father of civil engineering, John Smeaton (1724-1792). The Royal Gunpowder Mills (RGM), Waltham Abbey, Essex, are commemorating him with special talks and Smeaton-inspired children's activity on select open days in July.
Há 3 dias · About: John Smeaton is the first self proclaimed civil engineer. He is often called the Father of Civil Engineering. He contributed greatly to the Industrial Revolution with his work on windmills and waterwheels.
Há 4 dias · The contractor for the baths and other plumbing and sanitary fittings was John Smeaton of Great Queen Street (grandson of the civil engineer John Smeaton, of Eddystone Lighthouse fame).
Há 2 dias · Individual houses dating from between 1770 and 1800 can also be found in various small redevelopments further south. But once again the New River Company's premises supply the surprise from this period—its engine house of 1766–8, for which John Smeaton supplied the original engine.
Há 4 dias · In 1756, repeated structural failure of the Eddystone Lighthouse off the coast of Cornwall, England, led John Smeaton, a British engineer, to conduct experiments with mortars using both fresh...
Há 4 dias · The company invited John Smeaton and his assistant William Jessop to Ireland for two weeks to advise them. Smeaton made a recommendation to skirt [BCN Main Line] brick aqueduct.
Há 4 dias · The celebrated Smeaton was called in, in 1761, and he advised the Corporation to buy back the stone of the old City gates, pulled down and sold the year before, to at once strengthen the shaky starlings.
