 | Civil engineering - 1881 - 514 pages
...entrusted the design and execution of works tending, in the expressive words of our charter, to direct " the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man." Finally, let me express my thanks to the engineers and others who have kindly furnished me with information,... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1882 - 688 pages
...acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of 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... | |
 | Henry Law - Civil engineering - 1882 - 748 pages
...years ago by Mr. Tredgold, and adopted by the Institution of Civil Engineers in their charter — " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." And here it is my duty to acknowledge the aid which I have derived from the Minutes of Proceedings... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1883 - 950 pages
...of the present century. Telford has admirably de6ned the profession of a civil engineer as ' 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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1883 - 932 pages
...of the present century. Telford has admirably defined the profession of a civil engineer as ' 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 fur external and internal trade, as applied... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1905 - 908 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 Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1918 - 684 pages
...by the grant of a Eoyal Charter, which contains the famous definition of civil engineering as being: The art of directing the Great Sources of Power In Nature for the use and convenience of men, аз the means of production and of traffic in states both for external and internal trade, аз... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1883 - 140 pages
...species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the artThenatm-eand of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use ^ect of the and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states both for external... | |
 | 1883 - 140 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 °^ect ofthe and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states both for external... | |
 | Great Britain - 1884 - 256 pages
...description of civil engineering, and his words were subsequently embodied in the Charter, as follows : — "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... | |
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Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man... 
