 | 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... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 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 - 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... | |
 | Archibald Barr - 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,... | |
 | Charles William Siemens - 1889 - 530 pages
...of Civil Engineers, must have had in his mind's eye, when he (at the suggestion of Tredgold) defined civil engineering as " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature." These considerations may serve to show that although we see the men of both abstract and applied science... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1890 - 456 pages
...existing, 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... | |
 | William Paul Gerhard - 1890 - 216 pages
...adopted by the Institution of Civil Engineers, is true, that, ". the profession of civil engineering is the art of directing the great sources of 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... | |
 | Associations of gas engineers and managers, United Kingdom - 1890 - 484 pages
...papers and periodicals of the day. As it is the object of the civil engineer " to convert and apply the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man," so must the working of many minds towards a common object continue to eliminate and produce new advancements... | |
 | E R. Salwey - 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... | |
 | 1891 - 622 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 arc given. But it was pointed out by Thomas Tredgold, who drew... | |
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... 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. 
