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... England he commenced business in London as a stockbroker , and was taken into partnership by a Mr. Whitmore , in the year 1799. While engaged in this business he pub- lished several works on Life Annuities , one of which , entitled ...
... England he commenced business in London as a stockbroker , and was taken into partnership by a Mr. Whitmore , in the year 1799. While engaged in this business he pub- lished several works on Life Annuities , one of which , entitled ...
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... England have de- rived from these laborious investigations , can hardly be too much appreciated . But a short time elapsed , after Baily had completed his observations on the pendulum , and determined the standard of length , -being ...
... England have de- rived from these laborious investigations , can hardly be too much appreciated . But a short time elapsed , after Baily had completed his observations on the pendulum , and determined the standard of length , -being ...
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... England for several generations . The early life of Joseph Banks was passed principally at Revesby Hall , his father's seat in Lincolnshire , and his education was for several years en- trusted to a private tutor ; in his ninth year he ...
... England for several generations . The early life of Joseph Banks was passed principally at Revesby Hall , his father's seat in Lincolnshire , and his education was for several years en- trusted to a private tutor ; in his ninth year he ...
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... England , enriched with many valuable specimens , and still more valuable information respecting the pro- ductions of the country . A fine collection of books and manuscripts were purchased and presented by Mr. Banks to the British ...
... England , enriched with many valuable specimens , and still more valuable information respecting the pro- ductions of the country . A fine collection of books and manuscripts were purchased and presented by Mr. Banks to the British ...
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... England about the year 1793 , when the Duke of York requested that one should be built for the English service , which was successfully tried on the River Thames . In gratitude to Count Demidoff for the facilities which he had afforded ...
... England about the year 1793 , when the Duke of York requested that one should be built for the English service , which was successfully tried on the River Thames . In gratitude to Count Demidoff for the facilities which he had afforded ...
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afterwards apparatus appointed astronomical became Bentham Born Boulton Boulton and Watt Bramah bridge Brunel canal Cavendish Charlotte Dundas chemical chemistry Civil Engineers commenced considerable construction continued contrivances Crompton Dalton Davy death died discovery distinguished Dollond early Edinburgh elected Ellesmere Canal eminent employed Encyclopædia Britannica engaged England engraving erected established experiments father feet Francis Baily Gilbert Glasgow heat Henry Henry Maudslay Herschel honour Huddart improvements Institution instruments invention inventor iron James Watt Jenner Jessop John John Rennie knowledge labour lectures living London Lord machine machinery manufacture Maskelyne mathematical Maudslay mechanical memoir ments nature navigation numerous obtained occupied original paper patent period Peter Dollond Philosophical plates Playfair practical published Rennie residence Royal Society Samuel Samuel Bentham Samuel Crompton scientific Sir Joseph Banks Soho steam steam-engine studies succeeded Symington Telford Tennant Thomas Young tion took Transactions Trevithick various Watt Watt's William Wollaston Young
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Page 139 - Watt, who directing the force of an original genius early exercised in philosophic research to the improvement of the steam-engine, enlarged the resources of his country, increased the power of man, and rose to an eminent place among the most illustrious followers of science, and the real benefactors of the world.
Page 70 - Having never seen the disease but in its casual way before, that is when communicated from the cow to the hand of the milker, I was astonished at the close resemblance of the pustules, in some of their stages, to the variolous pustules.
Page 69 - ... so that, if a cuckoo should be ready with an egg much sooner than the time pointed out, not a single nestling, even one of the earliest, would be fit to provide for itself before its parent would be instinctively directed to seek a new residence, and be thus compelled to abandon its young one; for old cuckoos take their final leave of this country the first week in July.