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... JOHN .. DAVY , SIR HUMPHRY DOLLOND , PETER : : PAGE 1 2 4 · 13 15 18 21 24 27 30 34 35 41 44 49 51 53 53 .. 56 58 61 63 64 67 72 23 75 DONKIN , BRYAN FRODSHAM , WILLIAM JAMES GILBERT , DAVIES GIDDY HATCHETT , CHARLES HENRY , DR ...
... JOHN .. DAVY , SIR HUMPHRY DOLLOND , PETER : : PAGE 1 2 4 · 13 15 18 21 24 27 30 34 35 41 44 49 51 53 53 .. 56 58 61 63 64 67 72 23 75 DONKIN , BRYAN FRODSHAM , WILLIAM JAMES GILBERT , DAVIES GIDDY HATCHETT , CHARLES HENRY , DR ...
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William Walker. LESLIE , SIR JOHN MASKELYNE , DR . NEVIL MAUDSLAY , HENRY MILLER , PATRICK MURDOCK , WILLIAM MYLNE , ROBERT .. NAYSMITH , ALEXANDER PLAYFAIR , JOHN RENNIE , JOHN .. RONALDS , FRANCIS RUMFORD , COUNT .. RUTHERFORD , DR ...
William Walker. LESLIE , SIR JOHN MASKELYNE , DR . NEVIL MAUDSLAY , HENRY MILLER , PATRICK MURDOCK , WILLIAM MYLNE , ROBERT .. NAYSMITH , ALEXANDER PLAYFAIR , JOHN RENNIE , JOHN .. RONALDS , FRANCIS RUMFORD , COUNT .. RUTHERFORD , DR ...
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... John Herschel , Bart . London , 1856 . SIR JOSEPH BANKS , BART . , C.B. , P.R.S. MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE , ETC. Born February 12 , 1743. Died June 19 , 1820 . Sir Joseph Banks , President of the Royal Society for upwards of ...
... John Herschel , Bart . London , 1856 . SIR JOSEPH BANKS , BART . , C.B. , P.R.S. MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE , ETC. Born February 12 , 1743. Died June 19 , 1820 . Sir Joseph Banks , President of the Royal Society for upwards of ...
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... John Pringle , in 1778 , Mr. Banks was elected President of this Society , an honour he continued to hold until his death . During the whole of his life Sir Joseph enjoyed the favour of the king , forming a kind of con- necting link ...
... John Pringle , in 1778 , Mr. Banks was elected President of this Society , an honour he continued to hold until his death . During the whole of his life Sir Joseph enjoyed the favour of the king , forming a kind of con- necting link ...
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... John J. Bennett , F.R.S. , read at the Anniver- sary Meeting of the Linnean Society , May , 1859 . SIR M. ISAMBARD BRUNEL , V.P.R.S. , & c . Born April 25 , 1769. Died December 12 , 1849 . This celebrated engineer was born at Haqueville ...
... John J. Bennett , F.R.S. , read at the Anniver- sary Meeting of the Linnean Society , May , 1859 . SIR M. ISAMBARD BRUNEL , V.P.R.S. , & c . Born April 25 , 1769. Died December 12 , 1849 . This celebrated engineer was born at Haqueville ...
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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.