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... inventions of the spinning - mule and power - loom by Crompton and Cartwright ; the in- troduction of machinery into the manufacture of paper , by Bryan Donkin and others ; the improvements in the printing - press , and invention of ...
... inventions of the spinning - mule and power - loom by Crompton and Cartwright ; the in- troduction of machinery into the manufacture of paper , by Bryan Donkin and others ; the improvements in the printing - press , and invention of ...
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... invention was a sort of jointed vessel , for the conveyance of the Empress Catherine down the Dnieper and its affluents , which were shallow , tortuous , and their navigation much impeded by sandbanks and sunken trees . This vessel was ...
... invention was a sort of jointed vessel , for the conveyance of the Empress Catherine down the Dnieper and its affluents , which were shallow , tortuous , and their navigation much impeded by sandbanks and sunken trees . This vessel was ...
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... invention has since realized the most sanguine hopes of its designer . Notwithstanding the great value of Bentham's ser- vices , he seems to have experienced little gratitude on the part of the government . During the year 1805 , he was ...
... invention has since realized the most sanguine hopes of its designer . Notwithstanding the great value of Bentham's ser- vices , he seems to have experienced little gratitude on the part of the government . During the year 1805 , he was ...
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... inventions , all of which are , more or less , of a highly useful charac- ter . For the manufacture of these , Bramah ... invention of his famous lock , which for many years stood unrivalled in ingenuity of construction , workmanship ...
... inventions , all of which are , more or less , of a highly useful charac- ter . For the manufacture of these , Bramah ... invention of his famous lock , which for many years stood unrivalled in ingenuity of construction , workmanship ...
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... invention of the self - tightening leather - collar , which was firmly secured in a recess at the top of a cylinder , with the concave side downwards . Consequently , when the water was pumped into the cylinder , it immediately forced ...
... invention of the self - tightening leather - collar , which was firmly secured in a recess at the top of a cylinder , with the concave side downwards . Consequently , when the water was pumped into the cylinder , it immediately forced ...
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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.