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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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Progress of the Nineteenth Century: A Panoramic Review of the Inventions and ...

John Wesley Hanson - 1900 - 718 pages
...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...
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The Windsor Magazine, Volume 14

1901 - 730 pages
...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...
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A History of science v. 5, Volume 5

Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 422 pages
...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...
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School Science and Mathematics, Volume 18

1918 - 984 pages
...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...
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School Science and Mathematics, Volume 18

1918 - 922 pages
...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...
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A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1

John Theodore Merz - 1907 - 482 pages
...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...
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Leading American Men of Science

David Starr Jordan - 1910 - 528 pages
...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...
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The Life of Sir Joseph Banks: President of the Royal Society, with Some ...

Edward Smith - 1911 - 432 pages
...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...
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The Life of Sir Joseph Banks: President of the Royal Society, with Some ...

Edward Smith - 1911 - 416 pages
...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...
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Aspects of Recent Science

Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams - 1912 - 380 pages
...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...
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