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... gives us , the grateful odours of the sweetest flowers , and tinctures which rival nature in the intensity and the beauty of its dyes . No truth was ever developed to man , in answer to his laborious toils , which did not sooner or ...
... gives us , the grateful odours of the sweetest flowers , and tinctures which rival nature in the intensity and the beauty of its dyes . No truth was ever developed to man , in answer to his laborious toils , which did not sooner or ...
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... give some idea of the estimation in which it was held , to mention , that when out of print , copies used to sell for four to five times their original value . Although Mr. Baily was thus actively devoting himself to matters of a direct ...
... give some idea of the estimation in which it was held , to mention , that when out of print , copies used to sell for four to five times their original value . Although Mr. Baily was thus actively devoting himself to matters of a direct ...
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... give it motion . This introduction of steam - power into the naval dockyards of Great Britain experienced at first the most violent opposition ; and it was not until 1797 that any progress was made towards the fur- therance of his ...
... give it motion . This introduction of steam - power into the naval dockyards of Great Britain experienced at first the most violent opposition ; and it was not until 1797 that any progress was made towards the fur- therance of his ...
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... gives to a child the strength of a giant , enabling him to bend a bar of iron as if it were wax . The chief difficulty which Bramah experienced in constructing this press was that of devising an efficient packing for the ram or solid ...
... gives to a child the strength of a giant , enabling him to bend a bar of iron as if it were wax . The chief difficulty which Bramah experienced in constructing this press was that of devising an efficient packing for the ram or solid ...
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... give , how- ever , but an imperfect notion of the great extent of ground over which he travelled in the course of his investigations , and of the success with which he explored it . He was an excellent mathema- tician , electrician ...
... give , how- ever , but an imperfect notion of the great extent of ground over which he travelled in the course of his investigations , and of the success with which he explored it . He was an excellent mathema- tician , electrician ...
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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.