 | Thomas Curtis Clarke - Railroads - 1889 - 492 pages
...the end desired. Civil engineering was defined, by one of the greatest of England's engineers, as " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," and that definition was adopted as a fundamental idea in the charter of the English Institution of... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1264 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. 5. A TALE OF THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS. YOUR invitation, my dear Editor, gives... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1889 - 1096 pages
..."civil engineering," given in the Charter of The Institution of Civil Engineers, namely, that it is " the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man." These words are taken from a definition or description of engineering given by one of our earliest... | |
 | Archibald Barr - Steam-engines - 1889 - 38 pages
...code of never-changing, never- varying laws, surely we may look upon the work of the engineer in " directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man " as a vocation as noble, and as worthy of the highest order of mind, as that of the scientific discoverer,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1889 - 942 pages
...structure on the Eddystone in 1696, may be said to have commenced the modern engineering efforts in directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man," efforts which, followed up by Kudyerd, Smeaton, and others, have been so successful in converting hidden... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1889 - 692 pages
...structure on the Eddystone in 1696, may he said to have commenced the modern engineering efforts," in directing the great sources of power in nature, for the use and convenience of man ; efforts, which, followed up by Rudyerd, Smeaton, and others, have been so successful in converting... | |
 | William Paul Gerhard - Refuse and refuse disposal - 1890 - 216 pages
...adopted by the Institution of Civil Engineers, is true, that, ". the profession of civil engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," then the question which I propose to discuss is an eminently practical one, which to solve successfully... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Railroads - 1890 - 456 pages
...to the end desired. Civil engineering was defined, by one of the greatest of England's engineers, as "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," and that definition was adopted as a fundamental idea in the charter of the English Institution of... | |
 | John Wilton Cuninghame Haldane - Civil engineering - 1890 - 546 pages
...sense attached to them by the Institution. The charter defines " the profession of a civil engineer" as "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," and some examples of this definition are given. But it was pointed out by Thomas Tredgold, who drew... | |
 | E R. Salwey - Railroads - 1890 - 146 pages
...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... | |
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