Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Smith started his career as a civil engineer. He later gave up this for painting, and has done much landscape work in water colors and has lectured on art subjects. Mr. Smith is perhaps best known as an author. Among his works are "The Tides of Barnegat," "Colonel Carter's Christmas," "The Under Dog," and "The Wood Fire...
...Parsons, in an interesting and entertaining stereopticon lecture in the Union, yesterday evening, on "Civil Engineering as a Career," emphasized imagination and enthusiasm as the two qualities most necessary in a man who would take up the profession of a civil engineer...
...impractical ideas of his predecessors in a useful form. And he deserves the credit he is given; for, according to Lord Telford, who said, "Engineering is the art of directing the great sources and powers of nature for the use and convenience of man," he was a true civil engineer...
...these two essentials of the successful civil engineer Robert Fulton was supremely qualified, and it was his mastery of the possibilities as well as the principles of his invention that has made him famous when his predecessors have been forgotten
...member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Great Britain...