This HTML5 document contains 56 embedded RDF statements represented using HTML+Microdata notation.

The embedded RDF content will be recognized by any processor of HTML5 Microdata.

Namespace Prefixes

PrefixIRI
dctermshttp://purl.org/dc/terms/
yago-reshttp://yago-knowledge.org/resource/
dbohttp://dbpedia.org/ontology/
foafhttp://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
n12https://global.dbpedia.org/id/
dbthttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Template:
rdfshttp://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
freebasehttp://rdf.freebase.com/ns/
rdfhttp://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
owlhttp://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#
wikipedia-enhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
dbchttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:
dbphttp://dbpedia.org/property/
provhttp://www.w3.org/ns/prov#
xsdhhttp://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#
goldhttp://purl.org/linguistics/gold/
wikidatahttp://www.wikidata.org/entity/
dbrhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/

Statements

Subject Item
dbr:Benjamin_Bevan
rdf:type
owl:Thing dbo:Person
rdfs:label
Benjamin Bevan
rdfs:comment
Benjamin Bevan (26 December 1773 — 2 July 1833) was a British civil engineer, noted for his proof of the equivalence of the elastic moduli of ice and water. He was a principal engineer on the Grand Junction Canal. He did extensive surveying work, looking at means of creating navigable stretches of the River Ivel and River Nene, and proposing canals between Market Harborough and Stamford and a branch out as far as Taunton. His survey of Deeping Fen resulted in an Act allowing the provision of steam engines for drainage, one of the earliest uses of steam power for this purpose.
dcterms:subject
dbc:1773_births dbc:British_hydrologists dbc:1833_deaths dbc:British_civil_engineers
dbo:wikiPageID
44307593
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
1056909529
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbc:British_civil_engineers dbr:Grand_Union_Canal dbc:British_hydrologists dbr:River_Ivel dbr:Leighton_Buzzard dbr:Civil_engineering dbr:Navigable_aqueduct dbr:Taunton dbr:Lunar_eclipse dbr:Ridgmont dbr:William_Smith_(geologist) dbr:Elastic_modulus dbr:Meteorology dbr:Wendover dbr:Deeping_Fen dbr:Yeoman dbr:River_Great_Ouse dbr:George_Birkbeck dbr:Grand_Junction_Canal dbr:Steam_engine dbr:Wey_and_Arun_Canal dbr:Boxing_Day dbr:Brewer dbc:1773_births dbr:Stamford,_Lincolnshire dbr:Newport_Pagnell_Canal dbr:Materials_science dbc:1833_deaths dbr:River_Nene dbr:Market_Harborough dbr:Birkbeck,_University_of_London dbr:Surveying
owl:sameAs
freebase:m.0127ycsq n12:rhuL yago-res:Benjamin_Bevan wikidata:Q19282327
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbt:Use_British_English dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:Authority_control dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description
dbo:abstract
Benjamin Bevan (26 December 1773 — 2 July 1833) was a British civil engineer, noted for his proof of the equivalence of the elastic moduli of ice and water. He was a principal engineer on the Grand Junction Canal. Bevan was born on Boxing Day in 1773; his parents were Joseph Bevan, a yeoman of Ridgmont, and Mary Ravens. He inherited his father's farm and holdings at the age of nine. He had five children with his wife Mary Allen, whom he married in 1799. Prior to entering the engineering profession, he worked as a brewer, but was encouraged to take up engineering after meeting the geologist William Smith. In 1802 he completed his first engineering project; a redesign of the Lake Bridge at Leighton Buzzard. Two years later he began working on canals, first working on the Wendover branch of the Grand Junction, and later taking over (along with John Woodhouse and Henry Provis) from the canal's original engineer James Barnes. On this canal, Bevan pioneered the use of iron as a material for aqueducts, constructing one of Britain's earliest iron aqueducts over the River Great Ouse. The work he did on the Grand Junction led to his involvement in other canal construction projects, including the original Grand Union Canal and the Newport Pagnell Canal (although he declined the post of chief engineer for the Wey and Arun Canal). He did extensive surveying work, looking at means of creating navigable stretches of the River Ivel and River Nene, and proposing canals between Market Harborough and Stamford and a branch out as far as Taunton. His survey of Deeping Fen resulted in an Act allowing the provision of steam engines for drainage, one of the earliest uses of steam power for this purpose. In later life, he developed an interest in materials science and meteorology, writing numerous scientific papers. He served on the committee which established the London Mechanics' Institution, and introduced George Birkbeck as the chair. He died from heart failure on 2 July 1833 whilst observing a lunar eclipse, and was interred at Ridgmont.
gold:hypernym
dbr:Engineer
prov:wasDerivedFrom
wikipedia-en:Benjamin_Bevan?oldid=1056909529&ns=0
dbo:wikiPageLength
4889
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
wikipedia-en:Benjamin_Bevan