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" Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man... "
Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Page 369
by Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1884
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Official Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain ...

Great Britain - 1884 - 256 pages
...and his words were subsequently embodied in the Charter, as follows : — "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...
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Lives Great and Simple

Sarah A. Tooley - Biography - 1884 - 300 pages
...machinery, took the name of Civil Engineers. They defined their profession as, " The art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." An older engineering society adopted as its motto a more concise definition, " We conquer by art the...
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A Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Courts of Common Law ..., Volume 6

John Mews - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1078 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 of man, as the means of production aiid of traffic in states both for external and internal trade, as applied...
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Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine, Volume 30

Engineering - 1884 - 616 pages
...the engineer has been described by Tredgold in terse and emphatic prose, as "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man,'1 which has changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world, Pope has described its...
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Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of ..., Volumes 7-9

Royal Society of South Australia - Science - 1885 - 772 pages
...where the art is practised. Engineering is, as Telford aptly describes it, " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," and you will at once perceive the vastness of the field in which the science of engineering is being...
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A lecture on the progress of higer technical instruction ... in relation to ...

George Frederick Armstrong - 1885 - 44 pages
...art which it will be your life's work to exercise, has been well expressed as that of " directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." You will see, then, that while its aspirations are noble, its responsibilities are also necessarily...
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Transactions, Volume 36

North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers - Mechanical engineering - 1887 - 420 pages
...The Institution of Civil Engineers embraces all classes who are engaged in "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," and this definition allows it to 1ake in nearly everybody. To become a member, however, of this very...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 4

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1888 - 882 pages
...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...
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Report of the Annual Meeting, Volume 58

British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1889 - 1248 pages
...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 ot our earliest...
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Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, Volumes 6-7

Canadian Institute - 1889 - 754 pages
...subjects, and otherwise smoothing the path of Civilization ; and also being the Arts of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic both for external and internal trade, and materially advancing...
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