 | William Miller Barr - Engineering - 1918 - 72 pages
...stands to-day as sound as the day it was written : "... that species of knowledge which coni stitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art...ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters, and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce, and in the construction... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1918 - 682 pages
...of traffic in states both for external and internal trade, as applied in the construction of roada, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks,...intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbors, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1918 - 714 pages
...of traffic in states both for external and internal trade, as applied in the construction of roada, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks,...intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbors, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 878 pages
...convenience of man as the means of production and of traffic in states both for internal and external trade as applied in the construction of roads, bridges,...intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbors, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the... | |
 | Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Harold John Brocklehurst - Technology & Engineering - 1925 - 332 pages
...in the Charter, dated 1828, of the Institution of Civil Engineers, where engineering is described as the " art of directing the great sources of power...ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters, and lighthouses; and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce; and in the construction... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland - Civil engineering - 1926 - 918 pages
...bridges, railroads, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, docks and storehouses, for the convenience of internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction...ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the navigation by artificial power for the purpose of commerce. " Besides these great objects... | |
 | Robert Lemuel Sackett - Engineering - 1928 - 224 pages
...England was Thomas Tredgold, who in 1828 formulated the first definition of "civil engineering" as "the art of directing the great sources of power in...intercourse and exchange; and in the construction of ports, harbors, moles, breakwaters, and lighthouses; and in the art of navigation by artificial power for... | |
 | Civil engineering - 1949 - 778 pages
...in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in -tate-. both for external and internal trade, as applied in...ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce, and in the construction... | |
 | Civil engineering - 1904 - 298 pages
...Nature for the use object of the and convenience of man, as the means of production and of 0< " y' traffic in states both for external and internal trade,...ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce, and in the construction... | |
 | Robert G. Angevine - History - 2004 - 388 pages
...effectively reserved work on internal improvements for civil engineers. It defined civil engineering as the art of directing the great sources of power in...ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce, and in the construction... | |
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Engineer, being 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 both for external and internal trade, as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts,... 
