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... attention . His accounts of the Eclipse of 1820 ; of the Annular Eclipse of 1836 , which he observed at Jedburgh ; and the Total Eclipse of July 8 , 1842 , with its marvellous revelation of the rose- coloured protuberances of the solar ...
... attention . His accounts of the Eclipse of 1820 ; of the Annular Eclipse of 1836 , which he observed at Jedburgh ; and the Total Eclipse of July 8 , 1842 , with its marvellous revelation of the rose- coloured protuberances of the solar ...
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... attention to the subject of coining , to the improvement of which art he devoted the last twenty years of his life . He erected extensive machinery for this purpose , and by uniting some processes originating in France with new kinds of ...
... attention to the subject of coining , to the improvement of which art he devoted the last twenty years of his life . He erected extensive machinery for this purpose , and by uniting some processes originating in France with new kinds of ...
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... attention to the improvement of the steam - engine , but in this , Watt's patent had left little room for other inventors : and hence Bramah seems to have entertained a grudge against Watt , which was shown strongly in the evidence ...
... attention to the improvement of the steam - engine , but in this , Watt's patent had left little room for other inventors : and hence Bramah seems to have entertained a grudge against Watt , which was shown strongly in the evidence ...
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... attention , and he became deeply interested in establishing the Ramsgate steam vessels , which were among the first that plied effectively on the River Thames . About this period , after much labour and perseverance , he induced the ...
... attention , and he became deeply interested in establishing the Ramsgate steam vessels , which were among the first that plied effectively on the River Thames . About this period , after much labour and perseverance , he induced the ...
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... attention was drawn towards the subject of weaving , by the following accidental occurrence : -In the summer of 1784 , he happened to be on a visit at Matlock , in Derbyshire , and in the company of some gentlemen from Manchester . The ...
... attention was drawn towards the subject of weaving , by the following accidental occurrence : -In the summer of 1784 , he happened to be on a visit at Matlock , in Derbyshire , and in the company of some gentlemen from Manchester . The ...
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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.