...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,"...

...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...

...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,...