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... letters capable of being shifted at pleasure , so as to express any single line by a proper combination of the plates . This was put in practice to number bank - notes , and enabled twenty clerks to perform the labour which previously ...
... letters capable of being shifted at pleasure , so as to express any single line by a proper combination of the plates . This was put in practice to number bank - notes , and enabled twenty clerks to perform the labour which previously ...
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... letter from Sir Joseph Banks , proposing for his acceptance the post of naturalist in the expedition for surveying the coasts of New Holland , then fitting out under the command of Captain Flinders . In the summer of 1801 he embarked at ...
... letter from Sir Joseph Banks , proposing for his acceptance the post of naturalist in the expedition for surveying the coasts of New Holland , then fitting out under the command of Captain Flinders . In the summer of 1801 he embarked at ...
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... letter , but transmitted it to the Society to which it was addressed ; in any case , no notice was taken of this letter , and Crompton's too mor- bidly sensitive mind thus received an additional wound . Two or three years after this ...
... letter , but transmitted it to the Society to which it was addressed ; in any case , no notice was taken of this letter , and Crompton's too mor- bidly sensitive mind thus received an additional wound . Two or three years after this ...
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... letter to his friend Mr. Davies Gilbert ( dated April 16 , 1799 ) , the first intimation of the intoxicating qualities of that gas . Shortly afterwards he examined its properties more accurately , administer- ing it to various ...
... letter to his friend Mr. Davies Gilbert ( dated April 16 , 1799 ) , the first intimation of the intoxicating qualities of that gas . Shortly afterwards he examined its properties more accurately , administer- ing it to various ...
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... letters , and that softened and elevated his whole moral frame and bearing . His comprehensive range of thought and knowledge , his proneness to general speculation in contradistinction to detail , his ready command of the refinements ...
... letters , and that softened and elevated his whole moral frame and bearing . His comprehensive range of thought and knowledge , his proneness to general speculation in contradistinction to detail , his ready command of the refinements ...
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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.