 | George Frederick Armstrong - 1885 - 44 Seiten
...charter of the art which it will be your life's work to exercise, has been well expressed as that of " directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." You will see, then, that while its aspirations are noble, its responsibilities are also necessarily... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1887 - 1176 Seiten
...Winstanley's structure on the Eddystone in 1696 may be said to have commenced the modern engineering efforts ' in directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man ; ' * efforts which, followed up by Rudyerd, Smeaton, the Stevensons, and others, have since been so... | |
 | 1888 - 794 Seiten
...desired. Civil engineering was defined, by one of the greatest of England's engineers, as "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," and that definition was adopted as a fundamental idea in the charter of the English Institution of... | |
 | Royal Society of South Australia - 1887 - 316 Seiten
...various countries where the art is practised. Engineering is, as Telford aptly describes it, " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," and you will at once perceive the vastness of the field in which the science of engineering is being... | |
 | North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers - 1887 - 420 Seiten
...class only. The Institution of Civil Engineers embraces all classes who are engaged in "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," and this definition allows it to 1ake in nearly everybody. To become a member, however, of this very... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1889 - 942 Seiten
...Winstanley's structure on the Eddystone in 1696, may be said to have commenced the modern engineering efforts in directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man," efforts which, followed up by Kudyerd, Smeaton, and others, have been so successful in converting hidden... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1889 - 754 Seiten
...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 means of production and of traffic both for external and internal trade, and materially advancing... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1889 - 692 Seiten
...structure on the Eddystone in 1696, may he said to have commenced the modern engineering efforts," in directing the great sources of power in nature, for the use and convenience of man ; efforts, which, followed up by Rudyerd, Smeaton, and others, have been so successful in converting... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1889 - 548 Seiten
...member of the military profession. Hence any person who follows the Art mentioned in the Charter of " directing the Great Sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man," whether he be a Mechanical Engineer, an Electrical Engineer, a Municipal Engineer, a Mining Engineer,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 1250 Seiten
...since its bounds are unlimited, and equally so must be the researches of its professors." ' The art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man.' Among all secular pursuits, can there be imagined one more vast in its scope, more beneficent, and... | |
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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. 
