"Civil engineer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the attention of the Virginia authorities to him and to the unusual accuracy of his surveys. As a consequence, he was appointed public surveyor, deriving a discipline therefrom which was of great service to him in his later career. By making him an able civil engineer, it laid the foundation of his future eminence in a military capacity. And by making him known to the principal landholders of the State, it led to his appointment, at the age of nineteen, to the office of adjutant-general, with the rank of major. This ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Geological Survey • Robert Shaler
... Babel an eminent astrologer and civil engineer, who assured him, after careful experiments, that, of all places in Europe, the mount of Fiesole was the healthiest and the best. He was therefore ordered to build the city there at once. When finished, it was called Fia sola, because of its solitariness; Attalus, in consequence of his participation ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... not quite made up my mind what profession I should like," said Harry, somewhat hesitatingly. "I am fond of drawing, and like being out of doors, and so I have thought at times of getting articled to a civil engineer." ...
— For Fortune and Glory - A Story of the Soudan War • Lewis Hough
... as a storekeeper, tanner and surveyor and civil engineer, before he got into a railroad office where ...
— How to Succeed - or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune • Orison Swett Marden
... Civil engineer, soldier, Republican. Born in Pennsylvania, 1833. Educated in the common schools, the Partridge Military Academy in Bristol, Pennsylvania, and in an engineering school at Wilmington, Delaware. Moved to Kansas, 1855; became city engineer of ...
— Arkansas Governors and United States Senators • John L. Ferguson
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