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... earliest years of the present century , the world witnessed the control and application of steam by Watt , Symington and Trevithick ; the great disco- veries in physics and chemistry by Dalton , Cavendish , Wollaston and Davy , -in ...
... earliest years of the present century , the world witnessed the control and application of steam by Watt , Symington and Trevithick ; the great disco- veries in physics and chemistry by Dalton , Cavendish , Wollaston and Davy , -in ...
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... early period shown a predilection for chemical and other pursuits connected with medicine , William was placed in the establishment of Mr. Joseph Gurney Bevan in Plough Court , Lombard Street , where he acquired a practical know- ledge ...
... early period shown a predilection for chemical and other pursuits connected with medicine , William was placed in the establishment of Mr. Joseph Gurney Bevan in Plough Court , Lombard Street , where he acquired a practical know- ledge ...
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... early showed a propensity to physical inquiry , obtaining among his schoolmates the nickname of the Philosopher of Newbury . ' Francis Baily quitted this school , when fourteen years old , for a house of business in the city of London ...
... early showed a propensity to physical inquiry , obtaining among his schoolmates the nickname of the Philosopher of Newbury . ' Francis Baily quitted this school , when fourteen years old , for a house of business in the city of London ...
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... early progress with paternal care , and as the Society grew and prospered , contributing to its transactions many ... early life seemed only able to find food for his vigor- ous mind amidst the hardships and fatigues of travel , it ...
... early progress with paternal care , and as the Society grew and prospered , contributing to its transactions many ... early life seemed only able to find food for his vigor- ous mind amidst the hardships and fatigues of travel , it ...
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... early life of Joseph Banks was passed principally at Revesby Hall , his father's seat in Lincolnshire , and his education was for several years en- trusted to a private tutor ; in his ninth year he was sent to Harrow and four years ...
... early life of Joseph Banks was passed principally at Revesby Hall , his father's seat in Lincolnshire , and his education was for several years en- trusted to a private tutor ; in his ninth year he was sent to Harrow and four years ...
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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.