...papers and periodicals of the day. As it is the object of the civil engineer " to convert and apply the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man," so must the working of many minds towards a common object continue to eliminate and produce new advancements...

...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...

...Institution of Civil Engineers has it recorded in its charter that the profession of an engineer is " The art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." The powers of nature have indeed been developed, and the engineers of the present day have a much larger...

...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...

...knowledge which constitutes the of a civil engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of iture for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production BSc in states both for external and internal trade, as applied in the i of roads, bridges, aqueducts,...

...for science sake " as the phrase goes, while they pursued to the utmost of their abilities, that " art of directing the great sources of power in nature, for the use and convenience of man," which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer. Frontinus gives us a good example of this. After...

...VIT'ERNER VON SIEMENS was a representative * ' man of this nineteenth century, the century in rhich " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man " has been more studied and applied than in any other, we were jimost saying than in all others. And...

...which constitute the business of the engineer — to quote the well-known words of the Royal Charter, ' the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man.' The association of this ancient and learned city with boilers and chimneys, witli the noise and racket...

...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.' It seems that in 1828, when the Institution was incorporated, the term ' mechanical science ' had a...

...and its scope and utility increased. In addition to the oft-quoted definition of civil engineering as 'the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man,' Thomas Tredgold also defined it, in 1828, as ' that practical application of the most important principles...