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... heat is made the willing power to propel our trains of carriages with a bird - like speed , and to urge in proud independence of winds or tides - our noble ships from shore to shore . Thought has penetrated the arcana of nature , and ...
... heat is made the willing power to propel our trains of carriages with a bird - like speed , and to urge in proud independence of winds or tides - our noble ships from shore to shore . Thought has penetrated the arcana of nature , and ...
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... Heat , ' and his ' Experiments on Air ; ' the former are three in number , and relate chiefly to the phenomena of congelation , and embody some of the results of experiments made as early as the year 1764. The first of these papers ...
... Heat , ' and his ' Experiments on Air ; ' the former are three in number , and relate chiefly to the phenomena of congelation , and embody some of the results of experiments made as early as the year 1764. The first of these papers ...
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... Heat . ' In January 1803 he read to the same Society an inquiry On the tendency of Elastic fluids to diffusion through each other , and in October of the same year wrote an Essay containing * Memoir , by Dr. T. S. Trail , Encyclopædia ...
... Heat . ' In January 1803 he read to the same Society an inquiry On the tendency of Elastic fluids to diffusion through each other , and in October of the same year wrote an Essay containing * Memoir , by Dr. T. S. Trail , Encyclopædia ...
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... Heat , Light , and Respiration , ' appeared in ' Beddoes ' West Country Contributions . ' His earliest scientific dis- covery was the detection of siliceous earth in the epidermis of canes , reeds , and grasses . About the same period ...
... Heat , Light , and Respiration , ' appeared in ' Beddoes ' West Country Contributions . ' His earliest scientific dis- covery was the detection of siliceous earth in the epidermis of canes , reeds , and grasses . About the same period ...
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... heating together , for the space of two hours , three parts of copper filings , fifteen of carbonate of soda , and twenty of powdered flint . In the year 1816 , Davy turned his attention to a method of pre- venting the dreadful ...
... heating together , for the space of two hours , three parts of copper filings , fifteen of carbonate of soda , and twenty of powdered flint . In the year 1816 , Davy turned his attention to a method of pre- venting the dreadful ...
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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.