...code of never-changing, never- varying laws, surely we may look upon the work of the engineer in " directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man " as a vocation as noble, and as worthy of the highest order of mind, as that of the scientific discoverer,...

...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...

...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...

...must have had in his mind's eye, when he (at the suggestion of Tredgold) defined civil engineering as " the art of directing the great sources of power in nature." These considerations may serve to show that although we see the men of both abstract and applied science...

...8,200 feet above the Railway.) And here is as good a place, perhaps, as any other in this chapter, to say that true engineering is the economical adaptation...Institution of Civil Engineers. But the development of engineeringworks in America has been effected successfully by American engineers only because they...

...adopted by the Institution of Civil Engineers, is true, that, ". the profession of civil engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man," then the question which I propose to discuss is an eminently practical one, which to solve successfully...

...papers and periodicals of the day. As it is the object of the civil engineer " to convert and apply the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man," so must the working of many minds towards a common object continue to eliminate and produce new advancements...

...those words so aptly embodied in the Charter of the Institute of Civil Engineers, she has " directed the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man" in many other countries besides her own. In this nineteenth century we may say in her own country she...

...sense attached to them by the institution. " The charter defines ' the profession of a civil engineer" as 'the art of directing the great sources of power...in nature for the use and convenience of man,' and some examples of this definition arc given. But it was pointed out by Thomas Tredgold, who drew up...

...Institution of Civil Engineers has it recorded in its charter that the profession of an engineer is " The art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." The powers of nature have indeed been developed, and the engineers of the present day have a much larger...