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... occupied three years ; during that period all engaged in it incurred many and severe hardships ; several , including three of the attendants of Dr. Solander and Mr. Banks , losing their lives . The results were highly important , the ...
... occupied three years ; during that period all engaged in it incurred many and severe hardships ; several , including three of the attendants of Dr. Solander and Mr. Banks , losing their lives . The results were highly important , the ...
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... occupied a house in Queen's Square Place , in the stable - yard of which were spacious workshops , let to a carpenter ; here Samuel used to spend all his leisure time , and soon acquired considerable skill in handling tools , for when ...
... occupied a house in Queen's Square Place , in the stable - yard of which were spacious workshops , let to a carpenter ; here Samuel used to spend all his leisure time , and soon acquired considerable skill in handling tools , for when ...
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... occupied Brunel's mind , and in 1799 , having matured his plans , he determined upon coming to England , finding that the United States were unable to afford full occupation for his inventive genius . In the month of May of the same ...
... occupied Brunel's mind , and in 1799 , having matured his plans , he determined upon coming to England , finding that the United States were unable to afford full occupation for his inventive genius . In the month of May of the same ...
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... occupied in various scientific and 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 ...
... occupied in various scientific and 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 ...
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... occupied for a period of three years , losing no op- portunity of making himself acquainted with the circumstances of the various harbours he was in the habit of visiting , and he thus acquired that valuable practical knowledge on the ...
... occupied for a period of three years , losing no op- portunity of making himself acquainted with the circumstances of the various harbours he was in the habit of visiting , and he thus acquired that valuable practical knowledge on 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.