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... important , the observations necessary for making the solar parallax were made with perfect success . The * The portable observatories used in this expedition were constructed by Smeaton the engineer.- Wild's History of the Roy . Soc ...
... important , the observations necessary for making the solar parallax were made with perfect success . The * The portable observatories used in this expedition were constructed by Smeaton the engineer.- Wild's History of the Roy . Soc ...
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... important and original line of action than he had yet ventured upon . In his patent of 1785 he indicated many inventions , although none of them came into prac- tical use such as a Hydrostatical Machine and Boiler , and the ap ...
... important and original line of action than he had yet ventured upon . In his patent of 1785 he indicated many inventions , although none of them came into prac- tical use such as a Hydrostatical Machine and Boiler , and the ap ...
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... important of which was his " four - way cock , " which was so contrived as to revolve continu- ously instead of alternately , thus insuring greater precision with less wear of parts . In this patent , which he secured in 1801 , he also ...
... important of which was his " four - way cock , " which was so contrived as to revolve continu- ously instead of alternately , thus insuring greater precision with less wear of parts . In this patent , which he secured in 1801 , he also ...
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... important work , together with his memoirs on Proteacia and Asclepiadeæ , which immediately followed , and his ' General Remarks , Geographical and Systematical , on the Botany of Terra Australis , ' appended to the ' Narrative of ...
... important work , together with his memoirs on Proteacia and Asclepiadeæ , which immediately followed , and his ' General Remarks , Geographical and Systematical , on the Botany of Terra Australis , ' appended to the ' Narrative of ...
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... important are , his ' Botanical Appendix to Captain Burt's Expedition into Central Australia , ' published in 1849 ; and his Memoir ' On Triplosporite , an undescribed Fossil Fruit , ' published in the Linnean Transactions for 1851. The ...
... important are , his ' Botanical Appendix to Captain Burt's Expedition into Central Australia , ' published in 1849 ; and his Memoir ' On Triplosporite , an undescribed Fossil Fruit , ' published in the Linnean Transactions for 1851. The ...
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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.