 British empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science...  MEMOIRS OF THE DISTINGUISHED MEN OF SCIENCE - Page 162by ROBERT HUNT F.R.S, F.S.S. - 1862Full view - About this book
 | William Walker - Scientists - 1862 - 256 pages
...devoted the greatest portion of his time to the interests of the Royal Institution, of which he M maybe considered the founder. The objects of this institution,...life." Such an institution was precisely the one which Rumford was qualified to superintend ; and in its early history, the influence of his peculiar habits... | |
 | International Exhibition - 1862 - 460 pages
...knowledge, and the facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions, and the teaching by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments the application of science to the common purposes of life. This institution has taken a leading part in the great work of popularizing... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - London (England) - 1863 - 450 pages
...knowledge, and the facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions, and the teaching by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments the application of science to the common purposes of life. This institution has taken a leading part in the great work of popularizing... | |
 | William Walker - 1864 - 198 pages
...he devoted the greatest portion of his time to the interests of the Royal Institution, of which he may be considered the founder. The objects of this...life." Such an institution was precisely the one which Rumford was qualified to superintend ; and in its early history, the influence of his peculiar habits... | |
 | William Walker - 1864 - 198 pages
...he devoted the greatest portion of his time to the interests of the Royal Institution, of which he may be considered the founder. The objects of this...life." Such an institution was precisely the one which Rumford was quali-fied to superintend; and in its early history, the influence of his peculiar habits... | |
 | William Walker - Scientists - 1864 - 184 pages
...he devoted the greatest portion of his time to the interests of the Royal Institution, of which he may be considered the founder. The objects of this...life." Such an institution was precisely the one which Rumford was qualified to superintend ; and in its early history, the influence of his peculiar habits... | |
 | Samuel Sewall, Charles Chauncey Sewall - United States - 1868 - 694 pages
...facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments,...application of science to the useful purposes of life," he was reluctantly persuaded, from motives of duty, to postpone his intended visit to the United States,... | |
 | Samuel Sewall, Charles Chauncy Sewall - United States - 1868 - 680 pages
...facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments,...application of science to the useful purposes of life," he was reluctantly persuaded, from motives of duty, to postpone his intended visit to the United States,... | |
 | Samuel Sewall, Charles Chauncy Sewall - United States - 1868 - 706 pages
...facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments,...application of science to the useful purposes of life," he was reluctantly persuaded, from motives of duty, to postpone his intended visit to the United States,... | |
 | Quekett Microscopical Club (London, England) - Microscopes - 1927 - 452 pages
...facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life." This resumption of the obligation to improve natural knowledge for use was... | |
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