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... remained there until his twenty - second year , when , desirous of the enlargement of views which travel affords , he embarked for America in 1795. Mr. Baily remained there nearly three years , travelling over the whole of the United ...
... remained there until his twenty - second year , when , desirous of the enlargement of views which travel affords , he embarked for America in 1795. Mr. Baily remained there nearly three years , travelling over the whole of the United ...
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... remained out of Parliament , went little into any society but that of learned men , while his relaxation was confined to exercise and to angling , of which he was so fond , that he would devote days and even nights to it . Whilst living ...
... remained out of Parliament , went little into any society but that of learned men , while his relaxation was confined to exercise and to angling , of which he was so fond , that he would devote days and even nights to it . Whilst living ...
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... remained until his death in 1831 , at the age of seventy - four . - Papers and Practical Illustrations of Public Works of Recent Construction , & c . London , 1856 . MATTHEW BOULTON , F.R.S. L. and E. & c . Born at Birmingham , Sept. 3 ...
... remained until his death in 1831 , at the age of seventy - four . - Papers and Practical Illustrations of Public Works of Recent Construction , & c . London , 1856 . MATTHEW BOULTON , F.R.S. L. and E. & c . Born at Birmingham , Sept. 3 ...
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... remained at this university until 1753 , but did not graduate . After leaving Cambridge , the personal history of Cavendish be- comes a blank for the next ten years . He joined the Royal Society in 1760 , but did not contribute anything ...
... remained at this university until 1753 , but did not graduate . After leaving Cambridge , the personal history of Cavendish be- comes a blank for the next ten years . He joined the Royal Society in 1760 , but did not contribute anything ...
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... remained , however , for Crompton to combine in his machine the improvements of Hargreaves and Arkwright , and hence was derived the name given to it of the Spinning - Mule . Crompton commenced the construction of this machine , which ...
... remained , however , for Crompton to combine in his machine the improvements of Hargreaves and Arkwright , and hence was derived the name given to it of the Spinning - Mule . Crompton commenced the construction of this machine , which ...
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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.