HISTORY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

• Civil Engineering came into existence in 18th century in France.An Englishman,John Smeaton was the first proclaimed civil engineeer in 1761.
• First Degree Programme in civil engineering was started by 'State College(UK)' in 1886.John Wesley Gunn of  Lexington got the first civil engineering degree from the A & M College in 1890.
• Civil Engineering construction works were not new ,they had started from the times of  pyramid construction in Egypt,stupas in ancient Sri Lanka And Mesopotamian Civilization.
• Archimedes gave the principle of 'Buoyancy' related to Civil Engineering works which nowadays became a part of the civil engineering syllabus.