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About Michael Topping
Michael Topping was the Chief Marine Surveyor of Fort St. George in Chennai responsible for founding the oldest modern technical school outside Europe. The Survey School was completed on 17 May 1794, with an initial intake of eight students. In 1858 it became the Civil Engineering School and the College of Engineering in 1861.
Everything about Michael Topping →- Occupation
- astronomer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- 1747
- Died
- 1796, January 7, 1796