Reports of the Late John Smeaton, F.R.S., Made on Various Occasions, in the Course of His Employment as a Civil Engineer ...M. Taylor, 1837 - Civil engineering |
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Page xxiv - ... an opportunity of putting the effect of these experiments into real practice, in a variety of cases, and for various purposes, so as to assure the society that he had found them to answer.
Page xxiii - Another time, he attended some men who were fixing a pump at a neighbouring village, and observing them cut off a piece of bored pipe, he procured it, and actually made with it a working pump that raised water.
Page xxvii - ... an act of parliament. No one was heard with more attention, nor had any one ever more confidence placed in his testimony. In the courts of law he had several compliments paid him from the bench by Lord Mansfield and others, for the new light which he threw on difficult subjects.
Page xxiii - He forged his iron and steel, and melted his metal ; he had tools of every sort for working in wood, ivory, and metals. He had made a lathe by which he had cut a perpetual screw in brass, a thing little known at that day, and which, I believe, was the invention of Mr.
Page xxviii - Channel, they were unavoidably, before the establishment of a lighthouse there, very dangerous, and often fatal to ships. Their situation with regard to the Bay of Biscay and the Atlantic is such, that they lie open to the swells of the bay and ocean, from all the south-western points of the compass; so that all the heavy seas from the south-west quarter come uncontrolled upon the Eddystone Rocks, and break upon them with the utmost fury.
Page xxviii - ... meeting the slope of the rocks, the sea beats upon them in a frightful manner, so as not only to obstruct any work being done on the rock, or even landing upon it, when, figuratively speaking, you might go to sea in a walnut-shell. That circumstances fraught with; danger surrounding it should lead mariners to wish for a lighthouse, is not wonderful; but the danger attending the erection leads us to wonder that any one could be found hardy enough to undertake it.
Page xx - Engineering, and who might, for talents and knowledge, have been real engineers, if it had not been their good fortune to have it in their power to employ others in this profession; and also of those who are employed in other public service, where such and similar kinds of knowledge is necessary. And, the Third Class, as honorary members, also to consist of various artists, whose professions and employments are necessary and useful to, as well as connected with, civil engineering.
Page xxv - He made the river Calder navigable; a work that required great skill and judgment, owing to the very impetuous floods in that river ; he planned and attended the execution of the great canal in Scotland, for conveying the trade of the country either to the Atlantic or German Ocean; and having brought it...
Page 156 - SL knt. one of the justices of our lord the king, assigned to hold pleas before the king himself...
Page xxvii - His building the Eddystone lighthouse, were there no other monument of his fame, would establish his character. The Eddystone rocks have obtained their name from the great variety of contrary sets of the tide or current in their vicinity. They are situated nearly SSW from the middle of Plymouth Sound. Their distance from the port of Plymouth is about 14 miles.