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... residence at college , he made considerable progress in classical knowledge , but evinced at the same time a decided predi- lection for the study of natural history . Botany in particular was his favourite occupation , and one to which ...
... residence at college , he made considerable progress in classical knowledge , but evinced at the same time a decided predi- lection for the study of natural history . Botany in particular was his favourite occupation , and one to which ...
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... residence at Newcastle - upon - Tyne . About this time the great project of a canal communication between the German Ocean and the Irish Sea , was engaging general attention in the North of England , and Mr. Chapman was fixed upon to ...
... residence at Newcastle - upon - Tyne . About this time the great project of a canal communication between the German Ocean and the Irish Sea , was engaging general attention in the North of England , and Mr. Chapman was fixed upon to ...
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... swept round the romantic old residence of Hall - in - the - Wood . He had , however , little leisure in general to spend with his favourite instrument ; the necessities of his situation compelled him to 36 CROMPTON .
... swept round the romantic old residence of Hall - in - the - Wood . He had , however , little leisure in general to spend with his favourite instrument ; the necessities of his situation compelled him to 36 CROMPTON .
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... residence at Kendal . A second edition was printed in 1834 , and he continued to pay much attention to this subject until within a short period of his death , by which time he had recorded upwards of 200,000 meteorological observations ...
... residence at Kendal . A second edition was printed in 1834 , and he continued to pay much attention to this subject until within a short period of his death , by which time he had recorded upwards of 200,000 meteorological observations ...
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... residence at Clifton , Davy was placed in a sphere where his genius could expand ; he was associated with men engaged in similar pursuits , was provided with suitable apparatus , and enabled to speedily enter upon that brilliant career ...
... residence at Clifton , Davy was placed in a sphere where his genius could expand ; he was associated with men engaged in similar pursuits , was provided with suitable apparatus , and enabled to speedily enter upon that brilliant career ...
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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.