...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...

...of knowledge, and the facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions, and the teaching by courses of philosophical lectures and...application of science to the common purposes of life. This institution has taken a leading part in the great work of popularizing science, and aPplying its...

...facilitate the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and to teach by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments the application of science to the useful purposes of life." Such an institution was precisely the one which Bumford was qualified to...

...of knowledge, and the facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions, and the teaching by courses of philosophical lectures and...application of science to the common purposes of life. This institution has taken a leading part in the great work of popularizing science, and applying its...

...facilitate the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and to teach by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments the application of science to the useful purposes of life." Such an institution was precisely the one which Rumford was quali-fied to...

...facilitate the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and to teach by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments the application of science to the useful purposes of life." Such an institution was precisely the one which Rumford was qualified to...

...arts by founding, in 1800, an 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." This resumption of the obligation to improve natural knowledge for use was not displeasing to those...

...of the British empire, 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 — by Benjamin, Count Rumford, FRS," &c. ; in octavo, 54 pp. ; Cadell & Davies, 1799. The following...

...and designed, according to its charter, for "diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements,...and experiments, the application of science to the useful purposes of life," he was reluctantly persuaded, from motives of duty, to postpone his intended...

...wealthy, and designed, according toits charter, for "diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements,...and experiments, the application of science to the useful purposes of life," he was reluctantly persuaded, from motives of duty, to postpone his intended...