PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS OF WILLIAM HENRY PREECE. CB, FRS. GIVEN 1 NOVEMBER 1898

W H PREECE
1899 Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers  
3,940 o u r towns, and the demand for pure air and pure water; the applications of electricit,y and the annihilation of distance; the rifling of ordnance, the improvement of explosives, and the armouring of great fighting, floating, moving machines; the enormous growth of manufactures and their distribution over the face of the earth; the pursuit of wealth, the roving propensities of our race, and the industria1 competition of nations;-have all contributed to break up our profession into
more » ... branches and into individnal groups, with their separate organizations and with their independent homes. Thus we have the railway engineer, the mechanical engineer, the naval architect, the mining engineer, the sanitary engineer, the gas engineer, the hydraulic engineer, the electrical engineer, the chemical engineer, the marine engineer, species of one genus-the civil engineer, whose home is in this building, whose Institution, like a good mother, tries to keep them all under the protection of her wing, and who is prepared to make any sacrifice to advance the knowledge of engineering, and to maintain the solidarity and reputation of the profession. The Engineering Conference held by the Institution in 1897 was undertaken in the furtherance of this aim, with results so successful as to call for its repetition in the approaching spring of 1899. Downloaded by [ University of Liverpool] on [15/09/16].
doi:10.1680/imotp.1899.19045 fatcat:yy3h3vak7rbfvnre6salpusbdi