 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1875 - 520 pages
...and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer ; being the art...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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1852 - 260 pages
...sourees of power in nature for the use and eonvenienee of man, as the means of produetion and of traffie in states both for external and internal trade, as applied in the eonstruetion of roads, bridges, aqueduets, eanals, river navigation, and doeks, for internal intereourse... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1859 - 452 pages
...and more particularly for promot insr the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer ; being the art of directing the great sourcFs of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic... | |
 | 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,... | |
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... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man... 
