Engineering: The art of organizing and directing men, and of controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.

— Henry Gordon Stott, Presidential address to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1908)

Source: http://books.google.nl/books?id=xSKrAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA463

From a 1908 presidential address, as cited in Gillette's 1920 Engineering and Contracting.

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