Who is known as the father of civil engineer.. ?
John Smeaton – the Father of Civil Engineering.
On June 8, 1729, English civil engineer John Smeaton was born. Smeaton actually is referred to having coined the term “civil engineering” to distinguish from military engineers. He was esponsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent physicist.
John Smeaton’s Way to Civil Engineering
John Smeaton was born at Austhorpe Lodge in the parish of Whitkirk, four miles east of Leeds, UK, as the son of a Yorkshire lawyer. After studying at Leeds Grammar School he joined his father’s law firm in 1742, before persuading his father to allow him to follow some mechanical profession. He left his father’s firm to become a mathematical instrument maker. In 1750 already after finishing his apprenticeship, he set up business on his own and set about improving the instruments used for navigation and astronomy. Among many other instruments, he developed a pyrometer to study material expansion and a whirling speculum or horizontal top. Between 1750 and 1755 his predilection for mechanical appliances was evidenced by a number of papers that were read before the Royal Society, of which he became a Fellow in 1753, aged only 29.
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