 | Willoughby Smith - 1891 - 426 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 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 - 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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of 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... | |
 | 1942 - 272 pages
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 | 1991 - 512 pages
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 | R Dexter-Smith - 1991 - 392 pages
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 | Mike Chrimes - 1991 - 200 pages
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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. 
