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Noun Named Entity
Categories: People educated at Leeds Grammar School, People of the Industrial Revolution, Lighthouse builders, long volume value, 1724 births
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John Smeaton  father of civil engineering  Smeaton, John  Smeaton Coefficient  The father of civil engineering
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John Smeaton was a British civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. Wikipedia
English:
engineer
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John Smeaton was a British civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. Wikipedia
English engineer Wikidata
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Copley Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society
CAUSE OF DEATH
stroke
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Great Britain
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Nordisk familjebok
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
EDUCATED AT
Leeds Grammar School
FAMILY NAME
Smeaton
FIELD OF WORK
civil engineer
GIVEN NAME
John
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
National Gallery of Art
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
NOTABLE WORK
Coldstream Bridge
OCCUPATION
engineer
civil engineer
physicist
mechanical engineer
PLACE OF BIRTH
Austhorpe
PLACE OF BURIAL
St Mary's Church, Whitkirk
PLACE OF DEATH
Austhorpe
SEX OR GENDER
male
Wikipedia
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John Smeaton
Wikidata
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John Smeaton
Wikipedia Redirections
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father of civil engineering, John Smeaton (engineer), Smeaton, John, Smeaton Coefficient, The father of civil engineering

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