Address Of Mr Edward Woods President Of The Institution Of Civil Engineers 9 November 1886

Author : Edward Woods Institution of C Engineers
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ISBN 13 : 9781330502518
Total Pages : 70 pages
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Download or read book Address of Mr. Edward Woods, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 9 November, 1886 (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Woods Institution of C Engineers and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Address of Mr. Edward Woods, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 9 November, 1886 Mr. Woods, President, addressed the meeting in the following terms on assuming the Chair, for the first time, after his election: - Gentlemen, - The honourable distinction which you have been pleased to confer upon me by your election of me as President demands my grateful acknowledgment, and I can only hope that my qualifications for performing the duties of so responsible and important an office may be found in some small measure commensurate with my anxiety to promote and to sustain the interests of the Institution. I shall need to claim your kind indulgence for whatever may be my shortcomings in this respect. The difficulty of selecting appropriate matter for an address on the occasion of first occupying this Chair, arises not from the paucity of subjects which it falls within the province of the engineer to consider, but from the fact that my distinguished predecessors in office have already dealt with many of paramount interest, whilst it would seem almost an act of presumption on my part to assume that other topics, to which I may now have occasion to advert, will present any special feature of novelty, or perhaps even of interest to gentlemen whose attention has been specially directed to their consideration. My connection with our profession dates from the time when I entered into the service of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, so that it has been my good fortune to have witnessed, and to have had the opportunity of observing, the gradual and progressive development of the railway system. The circumstance I have mentioned may perhaps be considered to offer an excuse for my venturing to recall to your notice some of the steps by which this system of inland transport has attained the degree of perfection at which it has now arrived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.