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... letter to a friend named Gardner , in the following words : " But listen to the most delightful part of my story . The boy has since been inoculated for the small - pox , which , as I ventured to predict , produced no effect . I shall ...
... letter to a friend named Gardner , in the following words : " But listen to the most delightful part of my story . The boy has since been inoculated for the small - pox , which , as I ventured to predict , produced no effect . I shall ...
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... letter to Mr. Clive , who instituted the first successful case of vaccination in London , he says : 66 Shall I , who , even in the morning of my life , sought the lowly and se- questered paths of life , the valley and not the mountain ...
... letter to Mr. Clive , who instituted the first successful case of vaccination in London , he says : 66 Shall I , who , even in the morning of my life , sought the lowly and se- questered paths of life , the valley and not the mountain ...
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... letters of recommendation , one from Adam Smith , Leslie repaired to London , with the intention of delivering a course of lectures on natural phi- losophy ; but finding , to use his own words , that " rational lectures would not ...
... letters of recommendation , one from Adam Smith , Leslie repaired to London , with the intention of delivering a course of lectures on natural phi- losophy ; but finding , to use his own words , that " rational lectures would not ...
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... letter could be seen at a time . The clocks were made to go isochronously , and were started at the same instant with the same letter appearing on the dial through the orifices of each of the screens , both dials , therefore , as they ...
... letter could be seen at a time . The clocks were made to go isochronously , and were started at the same instant with the same letter appearing on the dial through the orifices of each of the screens , both dials , therefore , as they ...
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... letters he was sent to the school of his native town , kept by a Mr. John Fowle , where he remained until his eleventh year , when he joined the school of a Mr. Hill at Medford . Here Thompson made such advances in mathematics and ...
... letters he was sent to the school of his native town , kept by a Mr. John Fowle , where he remained until his eleventh year , when he joined the school of a Mr. Hill at Medford . Here Thompson made such advances in mathematics and ...
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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.