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... acquired a practical know- ledge of chemistry . He eventually succeeded to the business , which he carried on in connection with Mr. Luke Howard , and obtained great reputation as a pharmaceutical chemist . About the year 1804 , Mr ...
... acquired a practical know- ledge of chemistry . He eventually succeeded to the business , which he carried on in connection with Mr. Luke Howard , and obtained great reputation as a pharmaceutical chemist . About the year 1804 , Mr ...
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... acquired a considerable fortune , and shortly afterwards took a house in Tavistock Place , giving his whole attention to the furtherance of astronomical science . Here , he executed that grand series of labours which has perpetuated his ...
... acquired a considerable fortune , and shortly afterwards took a house in Tavistock Place , giving his whole attention to the furtherance of astronomical science . Here , he executed that grand series of labours which has perpetuated his ...
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... acquired chiefly in the promotion of scientific objects , and the encouragement of those who pursued them . Sir Joseph Banks's published works bear little proportion either to his scientific labours or his exertions on behalf of learned ...
... acquired chiefly in the promotion of scientific objects , and the encouragement of those who pursued them . Sir Joseph Banks's published works bear little proportion either to his scientific labours or his exertions on behalf of learned ...
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... acquired considerable skill in handling tools , for when only thirteen years old he had managed to construct with his own hands a carriage , for a young friend and playmate , Miss Cornelia Knight At the age of fourteen he exhibited so ...
... acquired considerable skill in handling tools , for when only thirteen years old he had managed to construct with his own hands a carriage , for a young friend and playmate , Miss Cornelia Knight At the age of fourteen he exhibited so ...
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... acquired that valuable practical knowledge on the subject of these works for which he became afterwards so highly distinguished . After leaving the merchant service , Mr. Chapman was fortunate enough to become acquainted with James Watt ...
... acquired that valuable practical knowledge on the subject of these works for which he became afterwards so highly distinguished . After leaving the merchant service , Mr. Chapman was fortunate enough to become acquainted with James Watt ...
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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.