Editing Delft University of Technology (section)

===Royal Academy (1842–1864)===
[[File:Jan Adam Kruseman William II King of the Netherlands 1840.jpg|left|thumb|200px|[[William II of the Netherlands]], founder of Royal Academy in Delft.]]
Delft University of Technology was founded on 8 January 1842 by [[William II of the Netherlands]] as ''Royal Academy for the education of civilian engineers, for serving both nation and industry, and of apprentices for trade''.<ref name="History"/> One of the purposes of the academy was to educate [[civil servants]] for the colonies of the [[Dutch East India Company]]. The first director of the academy was Antoine Lipkens, constructor of the first Dutch [[optical telegraph]], called simply as Lipkens. Royal Academy had its first building located at Oude Delft 95 in Delft. On 23 May 1863 an Act was passed imposing regulations on technical education in the Netherlands, bringing it under the rules of [[secondary education]].