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... continued to be engaged more or less until the year 1827. He was also connected with the Royal Institution of Great Britain , and was concerned in some of the most exact experiments of the day , together with Davy , Babington , Marcet ...
... continued to be engaged more or less until the year 1827. He was also connected with the Royal Institution of Great Britain , and was concerned in some of the most exact experiments of the day , together with Davy , Babington , Marcet ...
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... 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 between his scientific compeers , and the courtly circles of the aristocracy . In 1781 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 between his scientific compeers , and the courtly circles of the aristocracy . In 1781 he ...
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... continued to fill the honourable office of President of the Royal Society for the unprecedented period of nearly forty - two years , enjoying , during that time , the correspondence and confidence of most of the dis- tinguished men of ...
... continued to fill the honourable office of President of the Royal Society for the unprecedented period of nearly forty - two years , enjoying , during that time , the correspondence and confidence of most of the dis- tinguished men of ...
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... continued ; but during the dis- cussion which arose regarding the statement of services which Sir Samuel had drawn up at the request of the Admiralty , although , on coming to the metal mills , Lord Melville said , " There Sir Samuel ...
... continued ; but during the dis- cussion which arose regarding the statement of services which Sir Samuel had drawn up at the request of the Admiralty , although , on coming to the metal mills , Lord Melville said , " There Sir Samuel ...
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... continued his useful labours as an inventor for many years , and his studies of the principles of Hydraulics , in the course of his invention of the press , enabled him to introduce many valuable improvements in pumping machinery . By ...
... continued his useful labours as an inventor for many years , and his studies of the principles of Hydraulics , in the course of his invention of the press , enabled him to introduce many valuable improvements in pumping machinery . By ...
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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.