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... determined , and the standard of British measure perpetuated , must continue to be a source of interest to scientific men for many generations to come . The chief works to which Mr. Baily devoted himself during this later portion of his ...
... determined , and the standard of British measure perpetuated , must continue to be a source of interest to scientific men for many generations to come . The chief works to which Mr. Baily devoted himself during this later portion of his ...
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... determined to devote his energies to his native country , regardless of all pecuniary advantages . During the interval which elapsed before the actual institution of his new office , Bentham was author- ized by the Lords of the ...
... determined to devote his energies to his native country , regardless of all pecuniary advantages . During the interval which elapsed before the actual institution of his new office , Bentham was author- ized by the Lords of the ...
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... 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 year Brunel took out his first patent in England , which was for a ...
... 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 year Brunel took out his first patent in England , which was for a ...
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... determined to try and see what he could do . His first attempts , as might be supposed , were very clumsy , but he at length succeeded in constructing a machine ( for which he took out a patent in 1785 ) , which , although rude and ...
... determined to try and see what he could do . His first attempts , as might be supposed , were very clumsy , but he at length succeeded in constructing a machine ( for which he took out a patent in 1785 ) , which , although rude and ...
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... determined , by means of an apparatus contrived by the Rev. John Mitchell , the density of our globe to be 54 , -or , in other words , nearly five - and - a - half times heavier than the same bulk of water would be . The experiments ...
... determined , by means of an apparatus contrived by the Rev. John Mitchell , the density of our globe to be 54 , -or , in other words , nearly five - and - a - half times heavier than the same bulk of water would be . The experiments ...
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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.