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... 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 " The Doctrine ...
... 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 " The Doctrine ...
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... commenced , with unabated vigour after a few months repose , pre- parations for another . Having been prevented from joining Captain Cook's second expedition , chiefly through the influence of Sir Hugh Pallisser with the admiralty , he ...
... commenced , with unabated vigour after a few months repose , pre- parations for another . Having been prevented from joining Captain Cook's second expedition , chiefly through the influence of Sir Hugh Pallisser with the admiralty , he ...
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... commenced life at Birmingham as a maker of buttons and shoe- buckles . Matthew Boulton received an ordinary education at a school at Deritend . He was , however , gifted with rare endow- ments , and of these he made the best use ; with ...
... commenced life at Birmingham as a maker of buttons and shoe- buckles . Matthew Boulton received an ordinary education at a school at Deritend . He was , however , gifted with rare endow- ments , and of these he made the best use ; with ...
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... commenced his great work - the Thames Tunnel . It is said that the original idea occurred to him as applied to the Neva at St. Petersburgh , in order to avoid the inconvenience arising from the floating ice ; a plan which he offered to ...
... commenced his great work - the Thames Tunnel . It is said that the original idea occurred to him as applied to the Neva at St. Petersburgh , in order to avoid the inconvenience arising from the floating ice ; a plan which he offered to ...
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... commenced his most important chemical researches , entitled ' Experiments on Air , ' which were carried on with frequent and sometimes long interrup- tions until 1788 , no part of them , however , having been published before the year ...
... commenced his most important chemical researches , entitled ' Experiments on Air , ' which were carried on with frequent and sometimes long interrup- tions until 1788 , no part of them , however , having been published before the year ...
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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.