British Institution of Civil Engineers

Japanese: イギリス土木学会 - いぎりすどぼくがっかい
British Institution of Civil Engineers

...Thus, civil engineering developed as part of military technology, but its results were also incorporated into other fields closely related to industry and civil life, such as bridges, canals, flood control, and road paving, and from around 1750 the term civil engineering came to be used in Britain to refer to the civil engineering that forms the foundation of civil life. Civil engineering also has the longest history as an engineering field, with the British Institution of Civil Engineers being founded in Britain in 1818 as the world's first engineering society, with T. Telford as its first president. Modern civil engineering took root in Japan after the Meiji Restoration.

*Some of the terminology referenced in the British Institution of Civil Engineers is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…このように土木技術は軍事技術の一翼として発達してきたが,一方ではそれらとは異なる橋,運河,治水,道路舗装など,産業,市民生活と密着した分野へもその成果がとり込まれるようになり,1750年ころから,イギリスにおいてこれら市民生活の基盤を形成する土木技術に対してcivil engineering(土木工学)のことばが用いられるようになった。学会の歴史も工学分野としてはもっとも古く,1818年イギリスで世界最初の工学学会としてイギリス土木学会が設立されており,T.テルフォードが初代会長になっている。 日本に近代的な土木技術が根を下ろすのは明治維新後である。…

※「イギリス土木学会」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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