Jan Leeghwater belongs to the record of technology as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Jan Leeghwater as Dutch architect and engineer (1575–1650).
Jan Leeghwater was born at Netherlands in 1575. His recorded nationality is Dutch Republic.
This was the period in which observation began to outrank inherited authority, and printing let work reach readers who would never meet its author.
Jan Leeghwater is described as civil engineer, engineer and millwright.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
That the work was done from Dutch Republic matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 1650, at 75. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Worked as civil engineer, engineer and millwright
