 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Railroads - 1890 - 456 pages
...to 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... | |
 | E R. Salwey - Railroads - 1890 - 146 pages
...those words so aptly embodied in the Charter of the Institute of Civil Engineers, she has " directed the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man" in many other countries besides her own. In this nineteenth century we may say in her own country she... | |
 | Willoughby Smith - Cables, Submarine - 1891 - 426 pages
...The Institution of Civil Engineers has it recorded in its charter that the profession of an engineer is " The art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." The powers of nature have indeed been developed, and the engineers of the present day have a much larger... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1891 - 212 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 - 1893 - 670 pages
...for science sake " as the phrase goes, while they pursued to the utmost of their abilities, that " art of directing the great sources of power in nature, for the use and convenience of man," which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer. Frontinus gives us a good example of this. After... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1894 - 1104 pages
...which constitute the business of the engineer — to quote the well-known words of the Royal Charter, ' the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man.' The association of this ancient and learned city with boilers and chimneys, witli the noise and racket... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1894 - 686 pages
...VIT'ERNER VON SIEMENS was a representative * ' man of this nineteenth century, the century in rhich " 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 jimost saying than in all others. And... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1894 - 1272 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.' It seems that in 1828, when the Institution was incorporated, the term ' mechanical science ' had a... | |
 | Gaetano Lanza - Engineering - 1895 - 174 pages
...Civil Engineer, adopted by the Council of the British Institution of Civil Engineers, in 1828, was, " the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man." Such a definition as this is not only vague, but, if taken literally, it would include a range of work... | |
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