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... carried on in connection with Mr. Luke Howard , and obtained great reputation as a pharmaceutical chemist . About the year 1804 , Mr. Allen was appointed lecturer on chemistry and experimental philo- sophy at Guy's Hospital , at which ...
... carried on in connection with Mr. Luke Howard , and obtained great reputation as a pharmaceutical chemist . About the year 1804 , Mr. Allen was appointed lecturer on chemistry and experimental philo- sophy at Guy's Hospital , at which ...
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... carrying the produce of the prince's establish- ments and manufactories to the Black Sea . On the breaking out of war with Turkey , Bentham was sent to the south with his battalion , of which , according to orders , he had made sailors ...
... carrying the produce of the prince's establish- ments and manufactories to the Black Sea . On the breaking out of war with Turkey , Bentham was sent to the south with his battalion , of which , according to orders , he had made sailors ...
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... carry out other improvements at Chatham and Woolwich . Brunel was essen- tially an inventor ; besides the above - mentioned machines , he took out patents for " the manufacture of tin - foil , " for " copying presses , " for ...
... carry out other improvements at Chatham and Woolwich . Brunel was essen- tially an inventor ; besides the above - mentioned machines , he took out patents for " the manufacture of tin - foil , " for " copying presses , " for ...
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... carried forward , required very peculiar contrivances to adapt it to its purpose . It was made in sections or compartments contained in a strong square frame , each section or compartment being moved forward by screws , as the men ...
... carried forward , required very peculiar contrivances to adapt it to its purpose . It was made in sections or compartments contained in a strong square frame , each section or compartment being moved forward by screws , as the men ...
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... carried on with frequent and sometimes long interrup- tions until 1788 , no part of them , however , having been published before the year 1783. They led to the discovery of the constant quantitative composition of the atmosphere , the ...
... carried on with frequent and sometimes long interrup- tions until 1788 , no part of them , however , having been published before the year 1783. They led to the discovery of the constant quantitative composition of the atmosphere , 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.