Another chance to remember John Smeaton (1724 -1792) – the country’s first civil engineer, died 28th October.
Apart from a vague memory that he had ‘something to do with lighthouses’ I knew nothing about Smeaton, and yet he really was a remarkable… Read More »Another chance to remember John Smeaton (1724 -1792) – the country’s first civil engineer, died 28th October.