 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 - Pàgina 228editat per - 1807Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1900 - 718 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1901 - 730 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 422 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1918 - 984 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1918 - 922 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1907 - 482 pàgines
...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... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1910 - 528 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Edward Smith - 1911 - 432 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Edward Smith - 1911 - 416 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams - 1912 - 380 pàgines
...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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