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... engaged more or less until the year 1827. He was also connected with the Royal Institution of Great Britain , and was concerned in some of the most exact experiments of the day , together with Davy , Babington , Marcet , Luke Howard ...
... engaged more or less until the year 1827. He was also connected with the Royal Institution of Great Britain , and was concerned in some of the most exact experiments of the day , together with Davy , Babington , Marcet , Luke Howard ...
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... engaged in this business he pub- lished several works on Life Annuities , one of which , entitled " The Doctrine of Life Annuities and Insurances analytically investigated and explained , ' was published in 1810 , with an appendix in ...
... engaged in this business he pub- lished several works on Life Annuities , one of which , entitled " The Doctrine of Life Annuities and Insurances analytically investigated and explained , ' was published in 1810 , with an appendix in ...
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... engaged in it incurred many and severe hardships ; several , including three of the attendants of Dr. Solander and Mr. Banks , losing their lives . The results were highly important , the observations necessary for making the solar ...
... engaged in it incurred many and severe hardships ; several , including three of the attendants of Dr. Solander and Mr. Banks , losing their lives . The results were highly important , the observations necessary for making the solar ...
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... certain machinery for making blocks . Bentham was at that time fully engaged by Lord St. Vincent in organizing a better mode of managing timber in the royal dock- yards , and it occurred to him that Brunel would BENTHAM . 11.
... certain machinery for making blocks . Bentham was at that time fully engaged by Lord St. Vincent in organizing a better mode of managing timber in the royal dock- yards , and it occurred to him that Brunel would BENTHAM . 11.
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... engaged for that purpose , recommending at the same time the adoption of his apparatus for shaping blocks , to which Brunel's machines were solely confined * — a measure which has had the effect of giving almost the entire merit of the ...
... engaged for that purpose , recommending at the same time the adoption of his apparatus for shaping blocks , to which Brunel's machines were solely confined * — a measure which has had the effect of giving almost the entire merit of the ...
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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.