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Article: Lighthouse engineer is honoured at Abbey
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 8, 1994
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Britain's first civil engineer, the man who built the Eddystone
Lighthouse, was yesterday commemorated in "engineers' corner" at
Westminster Abbey, writes Tom Wilkie.
Until the work of John Smeaton, 1724-1792, engineering had been
largely a military profession. Smeaton has a unique place in
British and world industrial history because his works and the
organisation of his professional practice set the pattern for the
development of civil engineering into the railway age.
Among his other creations were masonry bridges at Coldstream,
Perth and Banff which according to Mike Chrimes, librarian of the
Institution of Civil Engineers, "are still standing". Noel Ordman,
the president of the ...