Colin Alexander McVean
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Colin Alexander McVean, FRGS was a Scottish civil engineer who contributed to Japan's engineering development in 1870s. He left two brief autobiographies, diaries, photos, letters and a collection of
Mcvean Family and servants in Tokyo, 1872.
Engineering college building designed and built by McVean and Joyner, completed in 1874.
Venus Transit Observation, directed by McVean on Gotenyama in December 1874.
The Imperial College of Engineering was a Japanese institution of higher education that was founded during the Meiji era. The college was established under the auspices of the Ministry of Public Works
Colin Alexander McVean
…departments: railroads, shipyards, lighthouses, mines, an iron and steel industry, telecommunication, civil works, manufacturing, industrial promotion, an Engineering education institution and survey. Yamao headed the Engineering Institution and Survey Office, and placed McVean into chief surveyor position for surveying and building…
Imperial College of Engineering, c.1880.
The Engineering School, designed by McVean and Joyner in 1872.
Main Building, Imperial College of Engineering, 1880.
Memorial recording the location of the college buildings at Kasumigaseki