| American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1873 - 626 pages
...after many years of labor, had not been large. He was proud of his profession, looking upon it as the art of directing the great sources of power in nature to the use and benefit of man, and he considered the Civil Engineer to be not only the interpreter between the man... | |
| American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1873 - 662 pages
...alter many years of labor, had not been large. He was proud of his profession, looking upon it ao the art of directing the great sources of power in nature to the use and benefit of man, and he considered the Civil Engineer to be not only the interpreter between the man... | |
| American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1878 - 642 pages
...after many years of labor, had not been large. He was proud of his profession, looking upon it as the art of directing the great sources of power in nature to the use and benefit of man, and he considered the Civil Engineer to be not only the interpreter between the man... | |
| George Walter Macgeorge - India - 1894 - 616 pages
...timely introduction and practical application in India of those various arts which have directed ' the great sources of power in Nature to the use and convenience of man ' — in other words, in consequence of that enlightened policy of the English governors of the country... | |
| George Walter Macgeorge - India - 1894 - 598 pages
...timely introduction and practical application in India of those various arts which have directed ' the great sources of power in Nature to the use and convenience of man ' — in other words, in consequence of that enlightened policy of the English governors of the country... | |
| Electricity - 1903 - 774 pages
...realisation of which the engineer has not largely contributed. Engineering has been defined as the art of directing the great sources of power in nature to the use and convenience of man, and therefore the engineer is interested in every investigation and discovery in the whole realm of... | |
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