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... tortoise - shell , and plated and inlaid works of the greatest elegance and perfection . On the side of the hill , Boulton built extensive workshops , and dwellings capable of holding many hundreds of workmen , and erected a BOULTON . 13.
... tortoise - shell , and plated and inlaid works of the greatest elegance and perfection . On the side of the hill , Boulton built extensive workshops , and dwellings capable of holding many hundreds of workmen , and erected a BOULTON . 13.
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... extensive machinery for this purpose , and by uniting some processes originating in France with new kinds of presses , he was enabled to obtain great rapidity of action combined with the utmost perfection in the articles produced ; so ...
... extensive machinery for this purpose , and by uniting some processes originating in France with new kinds of presses , he was enabled to obtain great rapidity of action combined with the utmost perfection in the articles produced ; so ...
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... extensive and splendid establishments of the East India Company at Bombay and Calcutta . Boulton died August 17 , 1809 , in his eighty - first year , and his re- mains were borne to the grave by the oldest workmen connected with the ...
... extensive and splendid establishments of the East India Company at Bombay and Calcutta . Boulton died August 17 , 1809 , in his eighty - first year , and his re- mains were borne to the grave by the oldest workmen connected with the ...
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... extensive and valuable collection of fossil woods , which he has bequeathed , under certain conditions , to the British Museum . After the death of Sir Joseph Banks , who bequeathed to him his house in Soho Square , Mr. Brown continued ...
... extensive and valuable collection of fossil woods , which he has bequeathed , under certain conditions , to the British Museum . After the death of Sir Joseph Banks , who bequeathed to him his house in Soho Square , Mr. Brown continued ...
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... extensive saw mills , and 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 ...
... extensive saw mills , and 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 ...
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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.