| Charles Dickens - 1879 - 414 pages
...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...and internal ' trade, as applied in the construction ofroads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange... | |
| 1879 - 136 pages
...being the art The nature and of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use °f the and convenience of man, as the means of production...as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction... | |
| 1880 - 762 pages
...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...as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, &c., and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the purpose of commerce, and in the construction... | |
| 1880 - 666 pages
...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...as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction... | |
| American Society of Mechanical Engineers - 1908 - 1888 pages
...wording, and describes the profession of the civil engineer as "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of...internal trade as applied in the construction of roads and bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks for internal intercourse and exchange and... | |
| 1881 - 328 pages
...which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer. It is " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of...as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks ; for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the... | |
| Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1882 - 738 pages
...knowledge which constitutes the profession of civil engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of...as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1905 - 908 pages
...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...as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1883 - 950 pages
...admirably de6ned the profession of a civil engineer as ' being the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of...as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction... | |
| Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1883 - 140 pages
...being the artThenatm-eand of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use ^ect of the and convenience of man, as the means of production...as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction... | |
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