...WAY. diffuse knowledge, to facilitate the general introduction of mechanical inventions, and teach by lectures and experiments the application of science to the common purposes of life. It has, as a rule, had for its lecturers some of the first scientific men of the age. It has been one...

...COUNT RUMFORP. Founder of the Royal Institution, THE ROYAL INSTITUTION : ALREMAULE STREET FRONTAGE. inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by...application of science to the common purposes of life." Rumford's Institution was to bring science and art into closer contact, to open up intercourse between...

...are desirous of forming a Public Institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of Useful Mechanical Inventions and Improvements...Application of Science to the Common Purposes of Life, we do hereby 'give and grant" — multifarious things which need not here be quoted. Such are the opening...

...institute for diffusing knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and for teaching by courses of philosophical lectures...application of science to the common purposes of life." In thus calling Newton a scientist of the first water, Rumford a scientist of the second, and Edison...

...institute for diffusing knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and for teaching by courses of philosophical lectures...application of science to the common purposes of life." In thus calling Newton a scientist of the first water, Rumford a scientist of the second, and Edison...

...It was described as a "public Institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements,...application of science to the common purposes of life." In the course of a very few years the original character of the Institution entirely changed, the aim...

...his energy to found "a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements,...application of science to the common purposes of life." The Royal Institution remains the chief monument to the memory of Rumford, for thanks to his excellent...

...the Institution. The definite object was, " For diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction, of useful mechanical inventions and...application of Science to the common purposes of life." The delicate question was raised for a moment, whether its functions would not interfere with existing...

...the Institution. The definite object was, " For diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction, of useful mechanical inventions and...application of Science to the common purposes of life." The delicate question was raised for a moment, whether its functions would not interfere with existing...

...are desirous of forming a Public Institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of Useful Mechanical Inventions and Improvements...Application of Science to the Common Purposes of Life, we do hereby give and grant" — multifarious things which need not here be quoted. Such are the opening...