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THE profession of Civil Engineering, as defined by Telford, which definition is incorporated into the Charter of the Institution of Civil Engineers, is “the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man,” and there are few more striking examples of what science may do for commerce, or of what man may accomplish by working hand-in-hand with Nature than is the proud position of the River Clyde at the present day, as compared to what it was one hundred years ago, or even as late as the year 1840.
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The River Clyde . Nature 15, 99–100 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/015099a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/015099a0