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... INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT HUNT , F.R.S. , & c . COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM WALKER , JUNIOR . Second Edition . " The evil , that men do , lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones . " SHAKSPEARE . ODI LONDON : E ...
... INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT HUNT , F.R.S. , & c . COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM WALKER , JUNIOR . Second Edition . " The evil , that men do , lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones . " SHAKSPEARE . ODI LONDON : E ...
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... INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT HUNT , F.R.S. , & c . COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM WALKER , JUNIOR . Second Edition . " The evil , that men do , lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones . " SHAKSPEARE . LONDON : E ...
... INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT HUNT , F.R.S. , & c . COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM WALKER , JUNIOR . Second Edition . " The evil , that men do , lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones . " SHAKSPEARE . LONDON : E ...
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... the public in a clear , brief , and ( it is hoped ) readable form , the doings of men who must ever be held in the grateful remembrance of their country . INTRODUCTION . THE influences of human thought on the physical.
... the public in a clear , brief , and ( it is hoped ) readable form , the doings of men who must ever be held in the grateful remembrance of their country . INTRODUCTION . THE influences of human thought on the physical.
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William Walker. INTRODUCTION . THE influences of human thought on the physical forces which regulate the great phenomena of the universe , — and the operation of the powers of mind , on the material constituents of the planet , which is ...
William Walker. INTRODUCTION . THE influences of human thought on the physical forces which regulate the great phenomena of the universe , — and the operation of the powers of mind , on the material constituents of the planet , which is ...
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... introduction of gas into general use by Murdock ; and the construction ( in a great measure ) of the present system of canal communication by Jessop , Chapman , Telford and Rennie . During the same period of time were likewise living ...
... introduction of gas into general use by Murdock ; and the construction ( in a great measure ) of the present system of canal communication by Jessop , Chapman , Telford and Rennie . During the same period of time were likewise living ...
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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.