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... employ their minds , in unwearying efforts to subdue the Earth , are rarely unrewarded . They aid in the march of civilization , and they ameliorate the con- ditions of humanity . They win a place amongst the great names which we ...
... employ their minds , in unwearying efforts to subdue the Earth , are rarely unrewarded . They aid in the march of civilization , and they ameliorate the con- ditions of humanity . They win a place amongst the great names which we ...
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... employing them would be the working of machines for saving manual labour , which at the same time ensured accuracy of work ; he therefore exerted his mechanical genius to perfect several engines he had previously contrived in Russia ...
... employing them would be the working of machines for saving manual labour , which at the same time ensured accuracy of work ; he therefore exerted his mechanical genius to perfect several engines he had previously contrived in Russia ...
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... employed by the British Government to recoin the whole of the British specie , he rendered counterfeits nearly impossible by the economy and excellence of his work . In addition to this , Mr. Boulton planned and directed the arrangement ...
... employed by the British Government to recoin the whole of the British specie , he rendered counterfeits nearly impossible by the economy and excellence of his work . In addition to this , Mr. Boulton planned and directed the arrangement ...
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... employed by common turners for making bowls . Bramah also invented machinery for making paper in large sheets , and for printing by means of a roller , composed of a number of circular plates , each turning on the same axis , and ...
... employed by common turners for making bowls . Bramah also invented machinery for making paper in large sheets , and for printing by means of a roller , composed of a number of circular plates , each turning on the same axis , and ...
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... employed to erect an arsenal and cannon foundry at New York , where he erected several new and ingenious machines . He was also engaged to design and superintend the building of the Bowery Theatre , New York , since destroyed by fire ...
... employed to erect an arsenal and cannon foundry at New York , where he erected several new and ingenious machines . He was also engaged to design and superintend the building of the Bowery Theatre , New York , since destroyed by fire ...
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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.