Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

- Thomas Tredgold

...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.

- Thomas Tredgold

Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application o…

- Thomas Tredgold