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... mechanical apparatuses for saving labour , with the exception of turning - lathes , and some boring tools worked by horses , for making ships ' blocks . Bentham therefore patented , in 1791 , his machinery for planing and making ...
... mechanical apparatuses for saving labour , with the exception of turning - lathes , and some boring tools worked by horses , for making ships ' blocks . Bentham therefore patented , in 1791 , his machinery for planing and making ...
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... mechanical talent ; he succeeded in constructing two violoncellos , which were found to be very tolerable instruments , and also managed to cut a violin out of a single block of wood , by means of tools which were forged for him by a ...
... mechanical talent ; he succeeded in constructing two violoncellos , which were found to be very tolerable instruments , and also managed to cut a violin out of a single block of wood , by means of tools which were forged for him by a ...
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... mechanical , either in theory or practice , and his invention was consequently susceptible of great improvement . To accomplish this , he now examined with care the contrivances already in use among the weavers , and availing himself of ...
... mechanical , either in theory or practice , and his invention was consequently susceptible of great improvement . To accomplish this , he now examined with care the contrivances already in use among the weavers , and availing himself of ...
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... mechanical experiments . Dr. Cartwright was the author of many other inventions in the arts and agriculture , for some of which he received premiumis from the Board of Agriculture and Society of Arts . He also contrived an ingenious ...
... mechanical experiments . Dr. Cartwright was the author of many other inventions in the arts and agriculture , for some of which he received premiumis from the Board of Agriculture and Society of Arts . He also contrived an ingenious ...
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... mechanical contrivances , determined the density to be 5.6 , or a little more than five - and - a - half times that of water . The last paper which Cavendish published , on an improvement in the manner of dividing astronomical ...
... mechanical contrivances , determined the density to be 5.6 , or a little more than five - and - a - half times that of water . The last paper which Cavendish published , on an improvement in the manner of dividing astronomical ...
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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.