 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1889 - 1250 pages
...of ' civil engineering,' given in the Charter of The Institution of Civil Engineers, namely, that it is ' the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man.' These words are taken from a definition or description of engineering given by one of our earliest... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1889 - 1248 pages
...of ' civil engineering,' given in the Charter of The Institution of Civil Engineers, namely, that it is ' the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man.' These words are taken from a definition or description of engineering given by one ot our earliest... | |
 | Thomas Curtis Clarke - Railroads - 1889 - 492 pages
...the end desired. Civil engineering was defined, by one of the greatest of England's engineers, as " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," and that definition was adopted as a fundamental idea in the charter of the English Institution of... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1264 pages
...of Tredgold, in his definition of the functions of the civil engineer — have devoted themselves to the ' art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.' FREDERICK BRAMWELL. 5. A TALE OF THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS. YOUR invitation, my dear Editor, gives... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1889 - 754 pages
...habitations of our subjects, and otherwise smoothing the path of Civilization ; and also being the Arts of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic both for external and internal trade, and materially advancing... | |
 | Archibald Barr - Steam-engines - 1889 - 38 pages
...code of never-changing, never- varying laws, surely we may look upon the work of the engineer in " directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man " as a vocation as noble, and as worthy of the highest order of mind, as that of the scientific discoverer,... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1889 - 692 pages
...structure on the Eddystone in 1696, may he said to have commenced the modern engineering efforts," in directing the great sources of power in nature, for the use and convenience of man ; efforts, which, followed up by Rudyerd, Smeaton, and others, have been so successful in converting... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1889 - 942 pages
...structure on the Eddystone in 1696, may be said to have commenced the modern engineering efforts in directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man," efforts which, followed up by Kudyerd, Smeaton, and others, have been so successful in converting hidden... | |
 | William Paul Gerhard - Refuse and refuse disposal - 1890 - 216 pages
...Tredgold, and adopted by the Institution of Civil Engineers, is true, that, ". the profession of civil engineering is the art of directing the great sources...power in nature for the use and convenience of man," then the question which I propose to discuss is an eminently practical one, which to solve successfully... | |
 | John Wilton Cuninghame Haldane - Civil engineering - 1890 - 546 pages
...sense attached to them by the Institution. The charter defines " the profession of a civil engineer" as "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," and some examples of this definition are given. But it was pointed out by Thomas Tredgold, who drew... | |
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