...to the analysis of experience and the results of experimental research. Engineering has been defined as "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." An adequate acquaintance with the laws of nature, and obedience to those laws, are essential to the...

...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...

...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...

...interchange of experience and ideas." Engineers who are more immediately concerned with the problems of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man are indeed grateful to our president for these inspiring words, and trust that the ties which unite...

...interchange of experience and ideas." Engineers who are more immediately concerned with the problems of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man are indeed grateful to our president for these inspiring words, and trust that the ties which unite...

...cvril engineer had, to quote the charter of the institution, "advanced mechanical science and directed the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man," lor ages >:'.»e the metallurgists rendered more than incidental service. Aj examples of great engineering...

...adventurer, with no higher object than profit. Franklin was a true civil engineer, who sought to direct " the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." Convinced of the correctness of his views, he proposed the use of lightningdischargers for the roofs...

...engineer had, to quote the charter of the institution, ** advanced mechanical science and directed the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man," for ages before the metallurgists rendered more than incidental service. As examples of great engineering...

...Member Institution Mechanical Engineers. (Rmd before Ou Society Apr* 12t*, 1871.) " ENGINEERING is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature, for the use and convenience of man." So said Thomas Telford, the eminent Civil Engineer, just 61 years ago, when, as first President of...

...the Institution of Civil Engineers, must have had in his mind's eye when he 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...