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   Smeaton
   John
   J. S. ;
   
   one of his daughters also helped with his technical drawings
   1724 in Austhorpe near Leeds
   1792
   Austhorpe, Leeds
   lawyer
   
   Leeds Grammar School, mathematical instrument maker Henry Hindley
   England, UK
   Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory & Newton Bosworth: Pantologia (1813) ; Tracts on hydraulics ; Experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of wind and water to turn mills & other machines, depending on a circular motion ;
   Royal Society (Fellow 1753; 1759 Copley Medaille) ;
   J. S. (daughter) ; draughtsman William Jessop ; draughtsman Henry Eastham ; engraver ->John Farey Jr ; ->Wilson Lowry ; engineer and scientist Thomas Young (1773-1829) ; engineer and scientist Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746-1822) ; engineer and scientist Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829) ; William Nicholson (1753-1815) ; J. Eytelwein ; John Wooler ;
   technical drawing
   www.google.de/search?q=John+Smeaton+drawing&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X
   www.engineering-timelines.com/who/Smeaton_J/smeatonJohn.asp
   Klingender 1968/74: 68 ; Allen, J. S. & A.W. Skempton (eds.): J.S., FRS, (London 1981) ;
   Mostly famous as a civil engineer; his drawings & drafts were collected in: "Designs of the late John Smeaton, F.R.S., made at Various Occasions in the Course of his Employment as a Civil Engineer 1754-1790 (6 volumes).
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