...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...