 | Engineering - 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... | |
 | Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) - Mechanical engineering - 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,... | |
 | Civil engineering - 1875 - 500 pages
...advnncement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a...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 in the construction... | |
 | South Kensington Museum - Physical instruments - 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... | |
 | Engineering - 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... | |
 | Royal Society of New South Wales - Science - 1902 - 694 pages
...enterprise, or for fostering (to quote the words of the Charter of the Institution of Civil Engineers) " the art of directing the great sources of power in...traffic in states both for external and internal trade," must vary widely in different countries inhabited by people differing in their traditions and in their... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1088 pages
...of Tredgold, in his definition of the functions of the civil engineer — have devoted themselves to the ' art of directing the great sources •of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.' FREDERICK BRAMWELL. 6. A TALE OF THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS. YOUR invitation, my dear Editor, gives... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - Biography & Autobiography - 1877 - 596 pages
...velocities, and magnitudes. The more modern Institution of Civil Engineers define their profession as The art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. which would seem at first sight to apply more especially to the mechanical branch, but which is doubtless... | |
 | English literature - 1879 - 634 pages
...hitherto made in this country to the philosophy of education. preceding remarks were made by Bidder, ' is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man ; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural philosophy which has,... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1879 - 124 pages
...advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that 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,... | |
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... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man... 
