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   Mr Tony Roche has been elected President of the Society for 2024. The 2023 Smeaton Lecture was given by First Class member Professor Peter Guthrie on the topic of "Sustainable development: from Smeaton to the 21st century" on 11th December 2023 at the Institution of Civil Engineers and online.

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2. www.ice.org.uk › news-insight › news-and-blogs7 things we can learn about Smeaton from his machine letters

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   Sep 16, 2024 · 7 things we can learn about Smeaton from his machine letters. 16 September 2024. John Smeaton, the father of civil engineering, had a long career – here's what his letters reveal about him. Smeaton's letters reveal details about his life as well as his work. Image credit: ICE Library.

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   TONY ROCHE FRENG FIMECHE. 177th President of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers 2024. Founded in 1771 by John Smeaton and seven other engineers, we are the oldest engineering organisation in the World.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Smeatonian_Society_ofSmeatonian Society of Civil Engineers - Wikipedia

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   The leading light of the new Society was John Smeaton who was the first engineer to describe himself as a "Civil Engineer", having coined the term to distinguish himself from the military engineers graduating from the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. [2]

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   Smeaton (1724-1792) hailed from Leeds and initially trained and worked in London as an instrument maker, but by his early 30s was making a name as an experimental scientist and improver of mills and steam engines.

6. www.ice.org.uk › john-smeatonJohn Smeaton - Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)

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   John Smeaton, the “father of civil engineering”, designed the new Eddystone Lighthouse, also known as Smeaton’s Tower, off the coast of Plymouth, after it was destroyed by a fire in December 1755.

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   Who is John Smeaton?

   • Portrait medallions at the top of the window depict 6 world-famous British civil engineers, John Smeaton among the likes of Thomas Telford and James Watt. Smeaton founded the Society of Civil Engineers in 1771 (renamed the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers in 1830), the forerunner to the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).

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   What is the Smeaton Society?

   • The Smeaton Society takes its name from Smeaton, the leading engineer of the mid eighteenth century who coined the name of the civil engineering profession around 1760 and led the formation of the Society. Today, it comprises many of the leading British Engineers and continues a great tradition of the age of the enlightenment, as it did in 1771.

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   What happened to the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers?

   • Following the death of Smeaton in 1792 the Society was revived as the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers. The Society is the oldest society of engineers in the world and embraces engineers of all disciplines. It predates the Institution of Civil Engineers founded in 1818.

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   How did John Smeaton die?

   • John Smeaton died of a stroke on 28 October 1792 at Austhorpe Lodge and was buried in Whitkirk’s St Mary’s Church. John Smeaton is often referred to as the “father of civil engineering”, and is considered the first man to describe himself as a civil engineer. He is famous ...

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   Who was the first military engineer to join the Smeatonian Society?

   • Major Henry Watson was the first military engineer to be elected to membership in 1774. Eventually the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers became more of a dining club and a group of younger engineers began to demand a better grouping to aid their profession and the Institution of Civil Engineers was formed in 1818.

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   What did John Smeaton do during the Industrial Revolution?

   • John Smeaton worked during the height of Britain’s Industrial Revolution (1760 to 1840). Over his career as a consulting civil engineer, Smeaton designed more than 100 bridges, water and wind mills, canals, harbours and land drainage schemes, as well as steam-powered engines. He also produced over 200 technical reports.

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   Jun 6, 2024 · Smeaton had a lifelong interest in astronomy, making his own telescopes and writing scientific papers about his observations. His remarkable research on air pressure to determine lift was used by the pioneers of powered flight, Americans Wilbur and Orville Wright.