Civil engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature to the use and convenience of man"; but at the present time I contend that Thomas Tredgold's definition is insufficient. The Michigan Alumnus - Página 601907Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| American Philosophical Society - 1873 - 662 páginas
...many years of labor, had not been large. He was proud of his profession, looking upon it ao the art of directing the great sources of power in nature to the use and benefit of man, and he considered the Civil Engineer to be not only the interpreter between the man... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1873 - 626 páginas
...many years of labor, had not been large. He was proud of his profession, looking upon it as the art of directing the great sources of power in nature to the use and benefit of man, and he considered the Civil Engineer to be not only the interpreter between the man... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1878 - 616 páginas
...many years of labor, had not been large. He was proud of his profession, looking upon it as the art of directing the great sources of power in nature to the use and benefit of man, and he considered the Civil Engineer to be not only the interpreter between the man... | |
| George Walter Macgeorge - 1894 - 616 páginas
...timely introduction and practical application in India of those various arts which have directed ' the great sources of power in Nature to the use and convenience of man ' — in other words, in consequence of that enlightened policy of the English governors of the country... | |
| George Walter Macgeorge - 1894 - 598 páginas
...timely introduction and practical application in India of those various arts which have directed ' the great sources of power in Nature to the use and convenience of man ' — in other words, in consequence of that enlightened policy of the English governors of the country... | |
| Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.). Annual Meeting - 1899 - 246 páginas
...which they held is fairly illustrated in Tredgold's good old definition, " Engineering is directing the sources of power in nature to the use and convenience of man." The engineer who follows the profession covered by this wideembracing definition must be a man of science,... | |
| University of Michigan. College of Engineering - 1934 - 954 páginas
...STATEMENT DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION 38. The broad subject of engineering has been defined as "Hie art and science of directing the great sources of power in nature lo the use and convenience of man." It includes the discovery, conservation, and utilization of the... | |
| Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.). Annual Meeting - 1902 - 348 páginas
...determining commercial success and supremacy. Tredgold's definition of the engineer, as one who directs the sources of power in nature to the use and convenience of man, is certainly broad and inclusive, but the range of technology in his day was quite limited. Whether... | |
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