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Apr 16, 2024 · Benjamin Wright (born October 10, 1770, Wethersfield, Connecticut [U.S.]—died August 24, 1842, New York, New York) was an American engineer who directed the construction of the Erie Canal. Because he trained so many engineers on that project, Wright has been called the “father of American engineering.”. He was trained as a surveyor in his ...
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1770 – 1842. Benjamin Wright, a surveyor by training and education, while also a judge and civic leader, came to be regarded as the "Father of American Engineering." Wright, along with notable early American engineers such as James Geddes, John Sullivan, and John Jervis, was of the so-called "Erie Canal School of Engineering."
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Oct 18, 2020 · Benjamin Wright helped build transportation and canal systems in the United States and served as the chief engineer on the construction of the Erie Canal. Wright’s influence was so widespread that by the mid-1800s almost every civil engineer in the country claimed some connection to him. Wright was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, on ...
Benjamin Wright (October 10, 1770 – August 24, 1842) was an American civil engineer who was chief engineer of the Erie Canal and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. In 1969, the American Society of Civil Engineers declared him the "Father of American Civil Engineering".
by Neal FitzSimons, Fellow ASCE. Born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, just before the American Revolution, Benjamin Wright's professional career covered the burgeoning of the industrial revolution in the United States. By the time of his death in 1842 the American transportation network had become the envy of the world.
Oct 10, 2019 · Benjamin Wright, an American civil engineer, was born Oct. 10, 1770. Wright wasn’t just a civil engineer, he was the "Father of American Civil Engineering," or so says the American Society of Civil Engineers. He earned that title by being Chief Engineer of the United States' first grand engineering project, the Erie Canal, completed in 1825.
Benjamin Wright: Father of American Civil Engineering. Abstract. The early nineteenth century was a time of great change as the United States transitioned from the colonial era to the industrial age. Benjamin Wright’s engineering career spanned the better part of that time from 1790 to 1840.
