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... HENRY CHAPMAN , WILLIAM CONGREVE , SIR WILLIAM CROMPTON , SAMUEL DALTON , JOHN .. DAVY , SIR HUMPHRY DOLLOND , PETER ... HENRY , DR . WILLIAM HERSCHEL , SIR WILLIAM HOWARD , EDWARD CHARLES HUDDART , CAPTAIN JOSEPH JENNER , DR . Edward ...
... HENRY CHAPMAN , WILLIAM CONGREVE , SIR WILLIAM CROMPTON , SAMUEL DALTON , JOHN .. DAVY , SIR HUMPHRY DOLLOND , PETER ... HENRY , DR . WILLIAM HERSCHEL , SIR WILLIAM HOWARD , EDWARD CHARLES HUDDART , CAPTAIN JOSEPH JENNER , DR . Edward ...
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... HENRY IVORY , JAMES .. PRIESTLY , JOSEPH APPENDIX . PAGE 77 .. 81 83 86 87 90 91 92 96 99 102 .. 107 107 112 .. 114 .. 117 122 124 126 132 134 137 142 .. 145 ·· 150 152 ·· 155 157 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION . THE following brief memoirs ...
... HENRY IVORY , JAMES .. PRIESTLY , JOSEPH APPENDIX . PAGE 77 .. 81 83 86 87 90 91 92 96 99 102 .. 107 107 112 .. 114 .. 117 122 124 126 132 134 137 142 .. 145 ·· 150 152 ·· 155 157 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION . THE following brief memoirs ...
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... Henry Maudslay , who was at that time a workman in his shop , and who had already greatly assisted him in the construction of his lock . Bramah continued his useful labours as an inventor for many years , and his studies of the ...
... Henry Maudslay , who was at that time a workman in his shop , and who had already greatly assisted him in the construction of his lock . Bramah continued his useful labours as an inventor for many years , and his studies of the ...
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... Henry Maudslay , from whom Brunel had already derived considerable assistance in the execution of his models and working out of his designs . It was erected in Portsmouth Dock- yard , and the economy produced by the first year's use of ...
... Henry Maudslay , from whom Brunel had already derived considerable assistance in the execution of his models and working out of his designs . It was erected in Portsmouth Dock- yard , and the economy produced by the first year's use of ...
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... HENRY CAVENDISH , F.R.S. Born October 10 , 1731. Died February 24 , 1810 . Henry Cavendish , the third in order of time among the four great English pneumatic chemists of the eighteenth century , * was the younger son of Lord Charles ...
... HENRY CAVENDISH , F.R.S. Born October 10 , 1731. Died February 24 , 1810 . Henry Cavendish , the third in order of time among the four great English pneumatic chemists of the eighteenth century , * was the younger son of Lord Charles ...
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Memoirs of the distinguished men of science of Great Britain living in ... William Walker Affichage du livre entier - 1864 |
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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.