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... machine , which could also be used for making mouldings by changing the cutting tool . Bentham's stay in Russia was prolonged for a greater period than he originally intended , from his having become attached to 8 BENTHAM .
... machine , which could also be used for making mouldings by changing the cutting tool . Bentham's stay in Russia was prolonged for a greater period than he originally intended , from his having become attached to 8 BENTHAM .
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... machine , in which the weight was attached to a sort of endless ladder , moved by a man stepping on it , on the principle that a man's weight exceeds considerably his muscular strength . After the completion of the canal , Prince ...
... machine , in which the weight was attached to a sort of endless ladder , moved by a man stepping on it , on the principle that a man's weight exceeds considerably his muscular strength . After the completion of the canal , Prince ...
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... machine constructed ten years before for Count Demidoff . His brother's arrangements for the industrial employment ... machines for saving manual labour , which at the same time ensured accuracy of work ; he therefore exerted his ...
... machine constructed ten years before for Count Demidoff . His brother's arrangements for the industrial employment ... machines for saving manual labour , which at the same time ensured accuracy of work ; he therefore exerted his ...
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... machines were solely confined * — a measure which has had the effect of giving almost the entire merit of the Portsmouth ... machine , of which he gave drawings , similar to the ones now in such general use ; and the efficacy of this ...
... machines were solely confined * — a measure which has had the effect of giving almost the entire merit of the Portsmouth ... machine , of which he gave drawings , similar to the ones now in such general use ; and the efficacy of this ...
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... machine to the public in a manner worthy of its reputation . " Its sale as an article of com- merce was entirely conducted by him , and the skilful and liberal way in which he performed this difficult task brought in time its own reward ...
... machine to the public in a manner worthy of its reputation . " Its sale as an article of com- merce was entirely conducted by him , and the skilful and liberal way in which he performed this difficult task brought in time its own reward ...
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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.