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| Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1828 - 410 pages
...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 and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as applied... | |
| Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1894 - 604 pages
...the purposes of commerce, and in the construction and adaptation of machinery, and in the drainage of cities and towns." No better definition can, I think,...applied sciences, such as medicine, which deal with organized beings. Mathematics has to deal with all questions into which measurement of relative magnitude... | |
| 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... | |
| Banks and banking - 1879 - 1110 pages
...acquisition of that species of knowledge which cjnstitutes 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, as the means of production and of traffic in States, both for external and internal trade, as applied... | |
| England - 1848 - 710 pages
...acquisition of that speciet 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, as the means of production, and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as applied... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1897 - 372 pages
...this paper, engineering is to be considered in the broader light of Tregold's well known definition, " The art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," while the engineer is he who designs and executes engineering works. It is not necessary here to dwell... | |
| Great Britain - 1851 - 720 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 man, as the means of production, and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as applied... | |
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