 | John Weale - Great Britain - 1854 - 1004 pages
...council The profession of the civil engineer is admirably defined in the Charter of Incorporation as " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the- means of production and of traffic in states both for external and internal trade, as applied... | |
 | 1859 - 452 pages
...acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer ; being the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states both for external and internal trade, as applied... | |
 | John Brunton - Railroads - 1863 - 84 pages
...acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer ; being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as applied... | |
 | William Newton - 1865 - 832 pages
...profession of a civil engineer be, as described in the Charter of Incorporation of the Institution, " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," it might fairly be asked — what other profession played so large a part in developing the material... | |
 | Institution of civil engineers - 1867 - 100 pages
...species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art The nature and of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use ° ' e and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states both for external... | |
 | Civil engineering - 1868 - 722 pages
...in the Minutes:— " Description of a Civil Engineer, "By THOMAS TREDGOLD, Hon. M. Inst. CE " Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources...power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural philosophy which has,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1913 - 788 pages
...concerned with the applications of mechanical science. Tredgold's oft-quoted definition of engineering as " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man " may well be taken, and often has been taken, as a text upon which to hang a discourse on the importance... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1894 - 944 pages
...1893.) WERNER VON SIEMENS was a representative man of this nineteenth century, the century in which " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man " has been more studied and applied than in any other, we were almost saying than in all others. And... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1915 - 834 pages
...interchange of experience and ideas." Engineers who are more immediately concerned with the problems of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man are indeed grateful to our president for these inspiring words, and trust that the ties which unite... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1915 - 886 pages
...interchange of experience and ideas." Engineers who are more immediately concerned with the problems of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man are indeed grateful to our president for these inspiring words, and trust that the ties which unite... | |
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