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... Soho , near Handsworth , where he founded that establishment which has be- come renowned as the nursery of English mechanics . The hill from which this place derived its name was , at that time , a bleak and barren heath , at the bottom ...
... Soho , near Handsworth , where he founded that establishment which has be- come renowned as the nursery of English mechanics . The hill from which this place derived its name was , at that time , a bleak and barren heath , at the bottom ...
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... Soho and superintend personally the erection of his new steam - engines . This bold but clear - sighted act of Boulton was destined to crown with honour a reputation , already rising , and built upon the firm foundation of uprightness ...
... Soho and superintend personally the erection of his new steam - engines . This bold but clear - sighted act of Boulton was destined to crown with honour a reputation , already rising , and built upon the firm foundation of uprightness ...
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... Soho devolved upon his death , doing the same for the extensive and splendid establishments of the East India Company at Bombay and Calcutta . Boulton died August 17 , 1809 , in his eighty - first year , and his re- mains were borne to ...
... Soho devolved upon his death , doing the same for the extensive and splendid establishments of the East India Company at Bombay and Calcutta . Boulton died August 17 , 1809 , in his eighty - first year , and his re- mains were borne to ...
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... Soho Square , Mr. Brown continued to occupy that portion of it which opened upon Dean Street ; and it was in the library of that illustrious man , the scene of his labours for sixty years , sur- rounded by his books and by his ...
... Soho Square , Mr. Brown continued to occupy that portion of it which opened upon Dean Street ; and it was in the library of that illustrious man , the scene of his labours for sixty years , sur- rounded by his books and by his ...
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... Soho , particularly by James Watt , with whom he continued on terms of the closest friendship until Mr. Watt's death in 1819. After remaining two years at Soho , Murdock was appointed by Messrs . Boulton and Watt to superintend the ...
... Soho , particularly by James Watt , with whom he continued on terms of the closest friendship until Mr. Watt's death in 1819. After remaining two years at Soho , Murdock was appointed by Messrs . Boulton and Watt to superintend the ...
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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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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.