 | 1882 - 546 pages
...the founder of the Institution of Civil Engineers, must have had in his mind's eye when he 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... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1873 - 626 pages
...accumulations, after many years of labor, had not been large. He was proud of his profession, looking upon it as the art of directing the great sources of power in nature to the use and benefit of man, and he considered the Civil Engineer to be not only the interpreter... | |
 | Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) - 1874 - 558 pages
...— I mean by Tredgold, who for the Institution of Civil Engineers defined " Engineering " to be " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." Accepting this definition, let us enquire whether mechanical engineers have to any, and to what extent,... | |
 | sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell (bart.) - 1874 - 24 pages
...— I mean by Tredgold, who for the Institution of Civil Engineers defined " Engineering " to be " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." Accepting this definition, let us enquire whether mechanical engineers have to any, and to what extent,... | |
 | 1874 - 612 pages
...— or as the motto of the Br.tish Institution of Civil Engineering has it, " Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." Man and nature, then should be his study. These are the views of Matthew Arnold, who strengthens his... | |
 | 1875 - 500 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 rf production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as applied... | |
 | 1876 - 612 pages
...• Address delivered by FJ Bramwelt, CE, FR 8., at South Kensington. " enable the engineer to direct the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." Although machines of this kind are, in truth, mere converters or adapters of extraneous forces into... | |
 | South Kensington Museum - 1876 - 458 pages
...consider that class of machines which, to use the words of Trcdgold, " enable the engineer to direct the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man." Although machines of this kind are in truth mere converters or adapters of extraneous forces into useful... | |
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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. 
