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" Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man... "
Report of the Annual Meeting - Page 820
by British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1894
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The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, Volumes 27-28

Chemistry - 1773 - 700 pages
...purposes of our present consideration. They then (in 1818) defined the objeil of their association to be " The acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer, whereby the great sources of power in nature—if, the energies of the imponderables—are converted,...
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Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, Volumes 27-28

Chemistry - 1773 - 682 pages
...purposes of our present consideration. They then (in 1818) defined the object of their association to be " The acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer, whereby the great sources of power in nature — ie, the energies of the imponderables — are converted,...
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Pamphlets on English Public Works and Engineering

Public health - 1800 - 798 pages
...have been incorporated, " for the general advancement of mechanical science, and " more especially for promoting the acquisition of that species of "...which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer." It was generally considered, that any question vitally affecting the interests, or professional dignity...
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 9

Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1828 - 410 pages
...charter are, "the general advancement of mechanical science, and more particularly the acquirement of that species 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...
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 39

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1875 - 520 pages
..." on the 3rd of June, 1828 : — "A Society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of...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...
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The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, Volume 28

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...
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 106

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1891 - 496 pages
...definc the purpose of the institution as being " for the gencral advancement of mechanical science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of...which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer." I cannot see any reason to doubt that the emincnt men who founded the institution, and who obtained...
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 118, Part 4

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...
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 64

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,...
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 77

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...
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