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" 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 - Page 228
edited by - 1807
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The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass. from the Grant of Its ...

Samuel Sewall, Charles Chauncy Sewall - 1868 - 680 pages
...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...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volumes 19-20

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 526 pages
...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...
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Black's Guide to London and Its Environs

Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1870 - 530 pages
...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...
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American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 22

1871 - 926 pages
...much the investigation of pure science, "as the diffusion of a knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements,...application of science to the common purposes of life." One of the modes of diffusing information was to collect in a hall of the institution "all such new...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 22

Henry Barnard - 1871 - 930 pages
...much the investigation of pure science, "as the diffusion of a knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements,...application of science to the common purposes of life." One of the modes of diffusing information was to collect in a hall of the institution " all such new...
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The Royal Institution: Its Founder and Its First Professors

Bence Jones - 1871 - 486 pages
...OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, A PUBLIC INSTITUTION FOR DIFFUSING THE KNOWLEDGE AND FACILIATING THE GENERAL INTRODUCTION OF USEFUL MECHANICAL INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS,...APPLICATION OF SCIENCE TO THE COMMON PURPOSES OF LIFE WERE THESE : THE two great objects of the Institution being the speedy and general diffusion of the...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 22

Henry Barnard - 1871 - 932 pages
...much the investigation of pure science, "as the diffusion of a knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements,...application of science to the common purposes of life." One of the modes of diffusing information was to collect in a hall of the institution "all such new...
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Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford: With Notices of His Daughter

George Edward Ellis - 1871 - 750 pages
...facilitating the general Introduction of • It is in the possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society. useful Mechanical Inventions and Improvements, and...Application of Science to the Common Purposes of Life." This copy, bearing the autograph of Count Rumford, was presented by him " To his Excellency John Adams,"...
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The Royal Institution: Its Founder and Its First Professors

Bence Jones - 1871 - 450 pages
...GENERAL INTRODUCTION OF USEFUL MECHANICAL INVENTIONS AMD IMPROVEMENTS, AND FOR TEACHING BY COURSES OP PHILOSOPHICAL LECTURES AND EXPERIMENTS THE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE TO THE COMMON PURPOSES OF LIFE WERE THESE : THE two great objects of the Institution being the speedy and general diffusion of the...
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Notices of the Proceedings, Volume 6

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1872 - 610 pages
...were unanimously taken:— " 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. " AT a General Meeting of the PROPRIETORS, held at the house of the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks,...
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