 | William Paul Gerhard - Refuse and refuse disposal - 1890 - 216 pages
...Civil Engineers, is true, that, ". the profession of civil engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," then the question which I propose to discuss is an eminently practical one, which to solve successfully... | |
 | E R. Salwey - Railroads - 1890 - 146 pages
...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... | |
 | John Wilton Cuninghame Haldane - Civil engineering - 1890 - 546 pages
...Institution. The charter defines " the profession of a civil engineer" as "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," and some examples of this definition are given. But it was pointed out by Thomas Tredgold, who drew... | |
 | Willoughby Smith - Cables, Submarine - 1891 - 426 pages
...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... | |
 | Civil engineering - 1891 - 622 pages
...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,... | |
 | Civil engineering - 1893 - 670 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1894 - 1122 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...roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1894 - 1104 pages
...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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1894 - 1272 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.' It seems that in 1828, when the Institution was incorporated, the term ' mechanical science ' had a... | |
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