 ... men took their birth. Its character, in accordance with the views of its early promoter, Count Rumford, was at first far more industrial than it eventually became. Its two great objects were " the general diffusion of the knowledge of all new and...  Once a Week - Page 142edited by - 1873Full view - About this book
 | American essays - 1871 - 798 pages
...monument of its founder. Rumford's original plan was to make it the means of " teaching the practical application of scientific discoveries to the improvement...the increase of domestic comfort and convenience." And his plan included a museum, so to speak, of various useful inventions, with models actually at... | |
 | Bence Jones - Davy, Humphry, Sir - 1871 - 486 pages
...knowledge of all new and useful improvements, in whatever quarter of the world they may originate ; the application of scientific discoveries to the improvement of arts and manufactures in this country, and to the increase of domestic comfort and convenience.' There is a remarkable addition... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1873 - 524 pages
...their birth. Its character, in accordance with the views of its early promoter, Count Rumford, was at first far more industrial than it eventually became....complete laundry for a gentleman's family ; grates and chimney pieces ; brewers' boilers ; distillers' coppers ; ventilators ; limekilns ; steam-boilers ;... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1873 - 516 pages
...their birth. Its character, in accordance with the views of its early promoter, Count Rumford, was at first far more industrial than it eventually became....complete laundry for a gentleman's family ; grates and chimney pieces ; brewers' boilers : distillers' coppers ; ventilators ; limekilns ; steam-boilers ;... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 584 pages
...their birth. Its character, in accordance with the views of its early promoter, Count Rumford, was at first far more industrial than it eventually became....boilers; distillers' coppers ; ventilators; limekilns ; steam-boilers ; spinning wheels ; agricultural implements ; bridges, &c., &c.; and at one time some... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1875 - 588 pages
...knowledge of all new and useful improvements, and teaching the application of scientific discoveries to tho improvement of arts and manufactures, and to the increase of domestic comfort and convenience." Tho Institution was to contain models, or actual specimens of fire-places and kitchen utensils for... | |
 | Bernard Henry Becker - Learned institutions and societies - 1875 - 356 pages
...of the institution were declared to be the diffusion of the knowledge aforesaid, and the teaching of the application of scientific discoveries to the improvement of arts and manufactures in this country. To fulfil the first object were to be exhibited full- sized working models of fireplaces,... | |
 | Science - 1875 - 800 pages
...of the institution were declared to be, the diffusion of the knowledge aforesaid and the teaching of the application of scientific discoveries to the improvement of arts and manufactures in this country. To fulfill the first object were to be exhibited full-sized working models of fireplaces,... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1875 - 576 pages
...were " the general diffusion of the knowledge of all new and useful improvements, and teaching tho application of scientific discoveries to the improvement...farm-houses, and large dwellings; a complete laundry fora gentleman's family; grates and chimney-pieces ; brewers' boilers ; distillers' coppers ; ventilators;... | |
 | American essays - 1871 - 818 pages
...monument of its founder. Rumford's original plan was to make it the means of " teaching the practical application of scientific discoveries to the improvement...the increase of domestic comfort and convenience." And his plan included a museum, so to speak, of various useful inventions, with models actually at... | |
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