...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...

...to the end 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...

...definition of ' civil engineering,' given in the Charter of The Institution of Civil Engineers, namely, that it is ' the art of directing the great sources...power in Nature for the use and convenience of man.' These words are taken from a definition or description of engineering given by one ot our earliest...

...definition of "civil engineering," given in the Charter of The Institution of Civil Engineers, namely, that it is " the art of directing the great sources...power in Nature for the use and convenience of man." These words are taken from a definition or description of engineering given by one of our earliest...

...definition of ' civil engineering,' given in the Charter of The Institution of Civil Engineers, namely, that it is ' the art of directing the great sources...power in Nature for the use and convenience of man.' These words are taken from a definition or description of engineering given by one of our earliest...

...of Tredgold, in his definition of the functions of the civil engineer — have devoted themselves to the ' art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.' FREDERICK BRAMWELL. 5. A TALE OF THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS. YOUR invitation, my dear Editor, gives...

...the end 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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...