Society of Civil Engineers
Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers
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Founding of the Society
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Year
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Authority / Notes
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1771
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This founding date is supported on p.2 and p.3 of
Watson.
On p. 26, Watson indicates that from its
beginning in 1771 it was a group of engineers that dined together, so that
they might get to know one another better, thereby avoiding potential
hostility that might arise in their public dealings with one another.
On the same page, he indicates that, when the Society renewed itself in
1793 after the death of Smeaton, one its founders, it took on the
additional goal of
"
promoting and communicating every branch of knowledge useful and necessary
to the various and important branches of public and private works in civil
engineering."
The Society does not appear ever to have published a journal.
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Seat of the Society
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City
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Authority / Notes
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London
England
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Holborn, a borough of London, is given on p.3 of
Watson as the place of founding.
It seems likely, from information given at various places in
Watson, that most, if not all, of the meetings
have been held in London.
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Name of the Society
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Dates
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Name
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Authority
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1771 - 1830
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Society of Civil Engineers
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It was founded with this name in 1771 according to p.2 of
Watson.
It appears to have been called this until 1830 (see p.87 of
Watson).
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1830 -
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Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers
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On p.87, Watson indicates that, in 1830, for the
first time,
the Society's rules and regulations gave this name for the Society.
He adds that this has been its name ever since.
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Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers
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