 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 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) - 1877 - 470 pages
...purpose for which he laboured, that defined by Tredgold as the conversion, adaptation, and application of the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, an infinitely higher purpose than either satisfying an unreasoning curiosity to peep into the secrets... | |
 | William Laxton - 1865 - 484 pages
...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) - 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... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1875 - 520 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 mnn, as the means rf production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as... | |
 | 1879 - 1110 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | 1851 - 722 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, as the means of production, and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as applied... | |
 | John Weale - 1852 - 966 pages
...of the civil engineer is admirably defined in the Charter of Incorporation as " 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... | |
 | John Weale - 1854 - 1004 pages
...of the civil engineer is admirably defined in the Charter of Incorporation as " 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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... 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. 
