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Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer (June 9, 1785 – September 7, 1872) also known as the "Father of the Military Academy", was an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point and an early advocate of engineering education in the United States.
West Point owes its distinctive character mainly to one man. He was Sylvanus Thayer, who transformed the country’s new military academy from a marginal and shaky enterprise into a school whose supremacy in the fields of science and engineering was unchallenged in America for some forty years.
Sylvanus Thayer (1817–33), who became known as the “father of the military academy” because of his lasting influence upon the West Point physical plant, the library, the curriculum, and the pedagogical method.
El coronel y general de brigada Brevet Sylvanus Thayer (9 de junio de 1785 – 7 de septiembre de 1872), también conocido como el "padre de la Academia Militar", fue uno de los primeros superintendentes de la Academia Militar de los Estados Unidos en West Point y uno de los primeros defensores de la educación en ingeniería en los Estados Unidos.
29 de may. de 2018 · People. Social Sciences and the Law. Education: Biographies. Sylvanus Thayer. views 3,570,501 updated May 29 2018. Sylvanus Thayer (1785-1872), American educator and engineer, put the U.S. Military Academy on a secure footing and promoted civil engineering as a collegiate course and profession.
8 de jun. de 2021 · Learn about the life and achievements of Sylvanus Thayer, who transformed West Point into the nation’s first college of engineering and introduced civil engineering at Dartmouth College. Read his biography by Reuben Hull, P.E., PMP, M.ASCE, a civil engineer and historian.
Sylvanus Thayer (1785-1872) was a distinguished engineer and educator who transformed West Point into a leading military-engineering school. He also designed and built several forts in Boston, funded the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, and established the Thayer Academy in Braintree.
