...— "A Society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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 moans of production and of traffic both for external and internal trade, and uiiU-iiully advancing...

...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...

...species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art The nature and of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use ° ' e and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states both for external...

...Minutes:— " Description of a Civil Engineer, "By THOMAS TREDGOLD, Hon. M. Inst. CE " Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural philosophy which has,...

...1893.) WERNER VON SIEMENS was a representative man of this nineteenth century, the century in which " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man " has been more studied and applied than in any other, we were almost saying than in all others. And...

...concerned with the applications of mechanical science. Tredgold's oft-quoted definition of engineering as " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man " may well be taken, and often has been taken, as a text upon which to hang a discourse on the importance...