| William Laxton - Architecture - 1865 - 484 pages
...profession of a civil engineer be, as described in the charter of incorporation of the institution, "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," it might fairly be asked, what other profession played so large a part in developing the material resources... | |
| 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... | |
| Art - 1858 - 608 pages
...habitations of our 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 moans of production and of traffic both for external and internal trade, and uiiU-iiully advancing... | |
| William Newton - 1865 - 832 pages
...profession of a civil engineer be, as described in the Charter of Incorporation of the Institution, " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," it might fairly be asked — what other profession played so large a part in developing the material... | |
| Institution of civil engineers - 1867 - 100 pages
...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 ° ' e and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states both for external... | |
| Civil engineering - 1868 - 722 pages
...Minutes:— " Description of a Civil Engineer, "By THOMAS TREDGOLD, Hon. M. Inst. CE " Civil Engineering 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,... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1913 - 810 pages
...to the analysis of experience and the results of experimental research. Engineering has been defined as "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." An adequate acquaintance with the laws of nature, and obedience to those laws, are essential to the... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1913 - 788 pages
...concerned with the applications of mechanical science. Tredgold's oft-quoted definition of engineering as " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man " may well be taken, and often has been taken, as a text upon which to hang a discourse on the importance... | |
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