...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...

...for science sake " as the phrase goes, while they pursued to the utmost of their abilities, that " art of directing the great sources of power in nature, for the use and convenience of man," which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer. Frontinus gives us a good example of this. After...

...which constitute the business of the engineer — to quote the well-known words of the Royal Charter, ' the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man.' The association of this ancient and learned city with boilers and chimneys, witli the noise and racket...

...attorneys and apothecaries, but the establishment in 1828 of the Institution of Civil Engineers to further 'the art of directing the Great Sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of mankind' marked the rise of a new kind of professional man. Members of these intellectual families...

...constrained in the main by topography, powerful landowners and city fathers. They were able to direct the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man without much regard for environmental questions. Brunel could drive his black britzska* across the...

...description of the profession of a Civil Engineer, dating back to the Royal Charter in 1828, as '....being the art of directing the Great Sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of Man' might need a bit of repolishing in the light of present day attitudes to green and feminist issues,...

...heaven and earth than are dreamt of in Hume's philosophy. 3. In 1828 Thomas Tredgold defined engineering as "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man" (quoted in Florman, Existential Pleasures of Engineering, p. 19). Mike Martin and Roland Schinzinger,...

...Engineers, a prominent selfeducated English colleague, Thomas Tredgold, defined its field of expertise: "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,...

...Industrial Revolution. In 1827, the Institution of Civil Engineers selected a definition of its profession as "The art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." 25. In the light of the challenges posed to human society by our own actions in destroying the global...

...engineering, in the 1828 charter of the (British) Institution of Civil Engineers, asserts that engineering is "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man."3 That definition is still accurate and adequate. The great sources of power — fire and falling...