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... observations on the pendulum , and determined the standard of length , -being thereby enabled to compare his new scale with the imperial standard yard , -when the conflagration of the Houses of Parliament in 1834 took place , and both ...
... observations on the pendulum , and determined the standard of length , -being thereby enabled to compare his new scale with the imperial standard yard , -when the conflagration of the Houses of Parliament in 1834 took place , and both ...
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... observations , and for preserving specimens of natural history , and persuaded Dr. Solander , a distinguished pupil of Linnæus , to become his associate in the enterprise . He also took with him two draughtsmen , to delineate all ...
... observations , and for preserving specimens of natural history , and persuaded Dr. Solander , a distinguished pupil of Linnæus , to become his associate in the enterprise . He also took with him two draughtsmen , to delineate all ...
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... observations in relation to their structure and affinities which he had accumulated , opened out to him new views upon a multitude of botanical subjects , which he was enabled by his position in the Linnean Society to enlarge , and to ...
... observations in relation to their structure and affinities which he had accumulated , opened out to him new views upon a multitude of botanical subjects , which he was enabled by his position in the Linnean Society to enlarge , and to ...
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... observations . In 1792 Brunel returned to France , where he found the revolution at its height , and , like all who entertained Royalist principles , was At eleven years of age , Brunel's love of tools was so great that he once pawned ...
... observations . In 1792 Brunel returned to France , where he found the revolution at its height , and , like all who entertained Royalist principles , was At eleven years of age , Brunel's love of tools was so great that he once pawned ...
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... observation of many phenomena which were never made pub- lic . With the last of these papers published in 1788 , Cavendish closed his chemical researches , his remaining publications referring to meteorology and astronomy . In 1798 ...
... observation of many phenomena which were never made pub- lic . With the last of these papers published in 1788 , Cavendish closed his chemical researches , his remaining publications referring to meteorology and astronomy . In 1798 ...
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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.