| John Murray (Firm), Peter Cunningham - 1853 - 386 sivua
...ALBEMARLE STREET, PICCADILLY. Established 179S1, at a meeting held at the house of Sir Joseph Banks, for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general...of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, &c. Count Rumford was its earliest promoter. The front — a row of Corinthian columns half-engaged... | |
| John Weale - 1854 - 1004 sivua
...who purchased a spacious and commodious house in Albemarle Street, with the intention of further " 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... | |
| John Timbs - 1855 - 1026 sivua
...EXCHANGES, pp. 273-286. ROYAL INSTITUTION (THE), 21 Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, was founded in 1799, "for diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the...introduction, of useful mechanical inventions and improvements ; and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science... | |
| Peter Cunningham - 1856 - 382 sivua
...ALBBMABLE STREET, PICCADILLY. Established 179!', at a meeting held at the house of Sir Joseph Banks, for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general...of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, &c. Count Rumford was its earliest promoter. The front — a row of Corinthian columns half-engaged... | |
| Frederick Perigal - 1860 - 104 sivua
...time, this day. Its professed object is to direct the public attention to the arts, by an establishment for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general...of useful mechanical inventions and improvements. (223). THE Admiralty Board has given orders for the general introduction of the cow-pock into the navy.... | |
| George Palmer Putnam - 1860 - 896 sivua
...patronage of George III., and incorporated by royal charter as " The Royal Institution of Great Britain," for diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the...of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science... | |
| Bowdoin college - 1863 - 854 sivua
...4.) 4 Life, by J. Renwick. See SPARKS, J. (Amer. Biogr.,2d Series, vol. 5.) 5 Proposals for forming a Public Institution for diffusing the Knowledge and facilitating the General Introduction of I'scful Mechanical Inventions and Improvements, and fur teaching the Application of Science to the... | |
| 1867 - 478 sivua
...the in* 'Report of ROJ-IÜ Institution/ i86j. stitution, as given at that time, are as follows :— ' Institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating...general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvement«, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures, the application of science to... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1868 - 518 sivua
...which Count Rumford was designated, bore the following title : " Proposals for forming, by subscription in the metropolis of the British empire, a public...introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements ; and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science... | |
| Quekett Microscopical Club (London, England) - 1927 - 452 sivua
...which could not be overlooked, now stimulated the sciences to emulate the arts by founding, in 1800, an institution " for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating...of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science... | |
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