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... direction of the Fontanka Canal , in connection with which he invented a peculiar form of pile- driving machine , in which the weight was attached to a sort of endless ladder , moved by a man stepping on it , on the principle that a ...
... direction of the Fontanka Canal , in connection with which he invented a peculiar form of pile- driving machine , in which the weight was attached to a sort of endless ladder , moved by a man stepping on it , on the principle that a ...
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... direction of the roads in- tersected by it , although one of them deviated from the right angle across the canal upwards of 50 deg . To meet this difficulty , and knowing that a bridge of the ordinary construction , with any ob- liquity ...
... direction of the roads in- tersected by it , although one of them deviated from the right angle across the canal upwards of 50 deg . To meet this difficulty , and knowing that a bridge of the ordinary construction , with any ob- liquity ...
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... direction of the roads or wasting material , and at an expense little above that of ordinary rectangular bridges . This he accomplished by the principle of building the courses of voussoirs at right angles to the face of the arch ...
... direction of the roads or wasting material , and at an expense little above that of ordinary rectangular bridges . This he accomplished by the principle of building the courses of voussoirs at right angles to the face of the arch ...
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... knowledge he had gained to the improvement of himself and his family . He accordingly com- menced business as an optician , under the direction of his father , in D the year 1750 , occupying a small house in Vine DOLLOND . 49.
... knowledge he had gained to the improvement of himself and his family . He accordingly com- menced business as an optician , under the direction of his father , in D the year 1750 , occupying a small house in Vine DOLLOND . 49.
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... direction of that motion . Herschel's magnificent speculations on the Milky Way , the con- stitution of nebulæ , & c . , first opened the road to the conception , that what was called the universe was , in all probability , but a ...
... direction of that motion . Herschel's magnificent speculations on the Milky Way , the con- stitution of nebulæ , & c . , first opened the road to the conception , that what was called the universe was , in all probability , but a ...
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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.