English engineer (1724-1792)
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An account of some experiments upon a machine for measuring the way of a ship at sea / [John Smeaton].
John SmeatonDate: 1754- Books
An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills, and other machines, depending on a circular motion / [John Smeaton].
John SmeatonDate: [1760]
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A description of a new pyrometer : with a table of experiments made therewith / [John Smeaton].
John SmeatonDate: 1754 or 1755?]- E-books
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Letters between Redmond Morres, Esq; one of the subscribers to the Grand Canal, and John Smeaton, Esq; engineer, and F.R.S. in 1771, and 1772, relative to the manner of carrying on that navigation, and inviting Mr. Smeaton to come over to Ireland, to view and direct the carrying on the same . With an introduction giving an account of the undertaking. Printed by the order of the Court of Directors of the Company of Undertakers of the Grand Canal.
Morres, Redmond 1711 or 12-1784.Date: 1773- E-books
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Considerations on the intended navigation betwixt Forth and Clyde : occasioned by the proceedings of the proprietors at their last meeting, and by the reports of Messrs Brindley, Yeoman, and Golborne, together with the review of Mr Smeaton.
Date: 1768
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Machinery designed by Smeaton for extracting coal from the pits. Etching by W. Lowry after J. Farey.
John FareyDate: 1816Reference: 30554i
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Clocks: faces (top), and mechanisms (below) of a Ferguson (right), and a Smeaton-Franklin clock (left). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
Date: 1 January 1810Reference: 40892i
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Clocks: a Smeaton-Franklin clock face (left), and mechanism (right). Engraving by A. Bell, ca. 1798.
Date: [1798?]Reference: 40898i
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Engineering: cross-sections of the hammer designed by John Smeaton for use in iron manufacture. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey the younger.
John Farey, Jr.Date: 1813Reference: 30264i- E-books
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Copies of three letters upon the proposed navigable communication between the friths of Forth and Clyde : published in the Edinburgh news-papers in April 1767.
Date: 1767