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... iron chieftain , and he seemed to be the father of his tribe . " * In 1785 Mr. Boulton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society , and two or three years after this , turned his attention to the subject of coining , to the improvement ...
... iron chieftain , and he seemed to be the father of his tribe . " * In 1785 Mr. Boulton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society , and two or three years after this , turned his attention to the subject of coining , to the improvement ...
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... iron as if it were wax . The chief difficulty which Bramah experienced in constructing this press was that of devising an efficient packing for the ram or solid piston , which , while capable of keeping out the water under the ...
... iron as if it were wax . The chief difficulty which Bramah experienced in constructing this press was that of devising an efficient packing for the ram or solid piston , which , while capable of keeping out the water under the ...
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... iron filings , in a red - hot gun barrel . From 1808 to 1810 , Davy gave three more lectures , in which he announced the results of his further chemical investigations . It may be inter- esting to remark that the original batteries of ...
... iron filings , in a red - hot gun barrel . From 1808 to 1810 , Davy gave three more lectures , in which he announced the results of his further chemical investigations . It may be inter- esting to remark that the original batteries of ...
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... iron or zinc to the copper . This , however , on being tried practically , introduced the unlooked for evil , of excessive fouling of the bottoms of ships so protected , which became liable to marine deposits in an equal manner with ...
... iron or zinc to the copper . This , however , on being tried practically , introduced the unlooked for evil , of excessive fouling of the bottoms of ships so protected , which became liable to marine deposits in an equal manner with ...
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... iron for carrying the canal across the arches , instead of an immense puddled clay trough , as was the practice until that time in use . The execu- tion and management of the numerous works here mentioned occu- pied the greater part of ...
... iron for carrying the canal across the arches , instead of an immense puddled clay trough , as was the practice until that time in use . The execu- tion and management of the numerous works here mentioned occu- pied the greater part of ...
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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.