 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1828 - 410 pages
...of knowledge, which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer; being the art of directing tbe 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... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1894 - 620 pages
...of cities and towns." No better definition can, I think, be found for our profession than that it is the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man. It covers all that the widest view of our work can include, and it excludes those applied sciences, such... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1875 - 520 pages
...acquisition of that 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 mnn, as the means rf production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1881 - 512 pages
...entrusted the design and execution of works tending, in the expressive words of our charter, to direct " the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man." Finally, let me express my thanks to the engineers and others who have kindly furnished me with information,... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1884 - 534 pages
...an engineer, it is enough to say that if tho province of tho engineer is " the art of directing tho great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," there have been very few men in the profession who could show a higher claim to the title. He was probably... | |
 | Banks and banking - 1879 - 1110 pages
...acquisition of that species of knowledge which cjnstitutes 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 and of traffic in States, both for external and internal trade, as applied... | |
 | England - 1848 - 710 pages
...acquisition of that speciet 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, and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as applied... | |
 | Great Britain - 1851 - 722 pages
...acquisition of that 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, and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as applied... | |
 | John Weale - London (England) - 1852 - 966 pages
...council. The profession of the civil engineer is admirably defined in the Charter of Incorporation as " 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... | |
 | John Weale - Great Britain - 1854 - 1004 pages
...council The profession of the civil engineer is admirably defined in the Charter of Incorporation as " 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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