Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8: An AppendixE. & F.N. Spon, 1864 - 160 pages |
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... 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 the latter standard , and the original one by Bird ( that of 1758 ) were destroyed ...
... 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 the latter standard , and the original one by Bird ( that of 1758 ) were destroyed ...
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... enabled to obtain a practical knowledge of the behaviour of vessels at sea ; for he was often per- mitted to sail in the British Channel , and sometimes extended his voyages further . About this period his brother , Jeremy Bentham , had ...
... enabled to obtain a practical knowledge of the behaviour of vessels at sea ; for he was often per- mitted to sail in the British Channel , and sometimes extended his voyages further . About this period his brother , Jeremy Bentham , had ...
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... enabled to retire from the firm possessed of a large competency , and leaving the exclusive privilege of the sale of the engine to Boulton . Boswell , who visited Soho in 1776 , shortly after the manufacture of steam - engines had been ...
... enabled to retire from the firm possessed of a large competency , and leaving the exclusive privilege of the sale of the engine to Boulton . Boswell , who visited Soho in 1776 , shortly after the manufacture of steam - engines had been ...
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... enabling him to bend a bar of iron as if it were wax . The chief difficulty which Bramah experienced in constructing this ... enabled to obtain a rotary motion , which he adopted in the well - known fire - engine . In 1797 he took out a ...
... enabling him to bend a bar of iron as if it were wax . The chief difficulty which Bramah experienced in constructing this ... enabled to obtain a rotary motion , which he adopted in the well - known fire - engine . In 1797 he took out a ...
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... enabled twenty clerks to perform the labour which previously had required one hundred and twenty . In 1812 he projected a scheme for main - pipes , which was , however , in many respects , more ingeni- ous than practicable . In ...
... enabled twenty clerks to perform the labour which previously had required one hundred and twenty . In 1812 he projected a scheme for main - pipes , which was , however , in many respects , more ingeni- ous than practicable . In ...
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Admiralty afterwards apparatus appointed astronomer became Bentham Boulton Boulton and Watt Bramah bridge Brunel canal Cartwright Cavendish Cavendish Experiment Chapman chemical chemistry chiefly Civil Engineers commenced considerable construction continued contrivances Crompton Dalton Davies Giddy Davy death died discovery Dollond early Edinburgh elected eminent Encyclopædia Encyclopædia Britannica engaged England erected established experiments father Francis Baily Frodsham Gilbert Glasgow Hatchett Henry Henry Maudslay Herschel honour Huddart important improvements Institution instruments invention inventor iron James Watt Jenner Jessop John John Dalton John Dollond knowledge labour lectures living London Lord machine machinery manufacture mathematics Maudslay mechanical memoir ments nature navigation numerous observations 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 succeeded Symington Telford tion took Transactions Trevithick various Watt William Wollaston yarn Young
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Page 141 - Who directing the Force of an Original Genius Early exercised in Philosophic Research To the Improvement of The...
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.
Page 70 - During that time, a young countrywoman having come to seek advice, the subject of small-pox was mentioned in her presence ; she immediately observed, " I cannot take that, for I have had the cow-pox.
Page 30 - ... hands or exchange greetings. A sense of isolation from his brethren, made him shrink from their society and avoid their presence, but he did so as one conscious of an infirmity, not boasting of an excellence. He was like a deaf mute sitting apart from a circle, whose looks and gestures show that they are uttering and listening to music and eloquence, in producing or welcoming which he can be no sharer.
Page 95 - ... most eloquent expounder of that great and magnificent system of knowledge which has been gradually evolved by the successive labours of so many gifted individuals. He possessed, indeed, in the highest degree, all the characteristics both of a fine and powerful understanding, at once penetrating and vigilant, but more distinguished, perhaps, for the caution and vin.