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... The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Página 228editado por - 1807Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edward Everett - 1840 - 460 páginas
...sculptures, &c. Royal Institution, a society established in London, AD 1800, for facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements,...application of science to the common purposes of life. It is chiefly indebted, for its origin, to our countryman, Count Rumford. It has a spacious building,... | |
| Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 páginas
...The Royal Institution of Great Britain," for diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction, of useful mechanical inventions and...application of science to the common purposes of life. The investigations and the important discoveries of sir H. Davy, who lectured on chemistry here, conferred... | |
| George Frederick Cruchley - 1842 - 320 páginas
...and facilitate the introduction of useful inventions and improvements ; and to teach, by courses of lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life. Its principal features are : — 1. A theatre for public lectures, intended to convey that kind of... | |
| 1843 - 614 páginas
...general introduction of useful me* ckanical intentions and improvements , and to track by philoiopical lectures and experiments the application of science to the common purposes of live. GEORGE III begiftigde de vereeniging, kort na hare stichting, met een charter, dat is, bij f... | |
| Charles Knight - 1844 - 438 páginas
...introduction of useful inventions and improvements ; and to * Memoirs, vol. ip 256. teach, by courses of lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life." The Institution possesses quite a staff of professors; two of the professorships have been endowed... | |
| 1845 - 854 páginas
...Albemarle Street, founded in the year 1800, ' for diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements,...application of science to the common purposes of life.' How far this promise of the prospectus has been carried put, may be judged of by the eminent support... | |
| 1845 - 862 páginas
...facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teacliing, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments,...application of science to the common purposes of life." How far this promise of the prospectus has been carried out, may be judged of by the eminent support... | |
| G. F. Cruchley - 1847 - 364 páginas
...and facilitate the introduction of useful inventions and improvements ; and to teach, by courses of lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of lite. Its principal features are : — 1. A theatre for public lectures. — 2. A laboratory, for the... | |
| Edward Mogg - 1848 - 304 páginas
...charter of George III., in 1808, for the purpose of diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements,...application of science to the common purposes of life. The important discoveries made here by Sir Humphry Davy have given a lasting celebrity to this establishment.... | |
| England - 1848 - 710 páginas
...institution was incorporated by charter, in 1800, for diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction, of useful mechanical inventions and...application of science to the common purposes of life. Its objects were confirmed and extended, byan act of parliament, passed in 1810, to the promotion of... | |
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