...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...

...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...

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...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...

...mechanical science " had a wider meaning than it is now usually understood to have. For, according to the charter, the art of directing the great sources of power in nature U only a particular species of knowledge which "mechanical science" includes. In 1836, or eight years...

...in common with the special work of Section G. Nominally devoted to 'Mechanical Science,' the Section has for many years specially dealt •with those branches...ancient and learned city with boilers and chimneys, witli the noise and racket of ordinary mechanical work, seems an incongruity. Even the harmless necessary...

...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...

...mechanical science ' had a wider meaning than it, is now usually understood to have. For, according to the charter, the art of directing the great sources of power in nature is only a particular species of knowledge which ' mechanical science ' includes. In 1836, or eight...

...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...

...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 and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states both for external and internal trade, as applied...