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John Smeaton

1724 - 1792

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John Smeaton (8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792) was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent physicist. Smeaton was the first self-proclaimed "civil engineer", and is often regarded as the "father of civil engineering". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Smeaton has received more than 485,365 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). John Smeaton is the 163rd most popular engineer (up from 176th in 2019), the 2,020th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,183rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John Smeaton ranks 163 out of 389. Before him are Gérard Larrousse, Philippe LeBon, Anton Flettner, Hanns Hörbiger, Marc Seguin, and John Loudon McAdam. After him are Antoine de Chézy, Sherif Ismail, Vitaly Abalakov, Menno van Coehoorn, John Hughes, and Alexander Mozhaysky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1724, John Smeaton ranks 21. Before him are Franz Aepinus, George Stubbs, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Gottfried Heinrich Bach, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, and Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf. After him are Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Claude Balbastre, John Michell, Dai Zhen, William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Ji Yun. Among people deceased in 1792, John Smeaton ranks 27. Before him are George Mason, Johann Andreas Stein, Maximilian Hell, Antonio Rosetti, Guillaume Le Gentil, and Yazid of Morocco. After him are John Burgoyne, John Paul Jones, René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Adam Gottlob Moltke, Charles Simon Favart, and George Browne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Smeaton ranks 2,020 out of 8,785. Before him are Graham Nash (1942), Peter James (1948), Marjorie Boulton (1924), Hugh Dowding (1882), John Bull (1562), and John Mills (1908). After him are Robert Smith (1959), John Stevens Henslow (1796), Gordon Milne (1937), Lesley Manville (1956), Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1310), and Sadiq Khan (1970).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, John Smeaton ranks 18. Before him are Adrian Newey (1958), Robert Stephenson (1803), John Bagot Glubb (1897), Patrick Head (1946), William Playfair (1759), and John Loudon McAdam (1756). After him are John Hughes (1814), André Waterkeyn (1917), W. Ross Ashby (1903), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), and James B. Francis (1815).

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