 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1875 - 520 pages
...directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of mnn, as the means rf production and of traffic in states, both for external...bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks, for internal^intercoursc and exchange ; and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, brcnkwatcrs,... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1893 - 576 pages
...Sutherland reclamations form the most important contribution of the late duke to that task of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man which it is the function of this Institution to foster, they by no means comprised all his labours... | |
 | William Laxton - Architecture - 1865 - 484 pages
...engineer be, as described in the charter of incorporation of the institution, "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," it might fairly be asked, what other profession played so large a part in developing the material resources... | |
 | Banks and banking - 1879 - 1110 pages
...species of knowledge which cjnstitutes the profession of a civil engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience...as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, canals, river navigation and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange ; in the construction of... | |
 | England - 1848 - 710 pages
...speciet 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...bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1851 - 722 pages
...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...bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters,... | |
 | John Weale - London (England) - 1852 - 966 pages
...the civil engineer is admirably defined in the Charter of Incorporation as " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience...bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1852 - 268 pages
...Incorporation of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, is, " The art of directing the great sourees of power in nature for the use and convenience of...bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks, for internal intereourse and exehange ; and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1852 - 260 pages
...sourees of power in nature for the use and eonvenienee of man, as the means of produetion and of traffie in states both for external and internal trade, as applied in the eonstruetion of roads, bridges, aqueduets, eanals, river navigation, and doeks, for internal intereourse... | |
 | John Weale - Great Britain - 1854 - 1004 pages
...the civil engineer is admirably defined in the Charter of Incorporation as " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience...bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters,... | |
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Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man... 
