 | John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 244 pages
...Royal Institution of Great Britain, incorporated by Royal Charter in the year 1800, " for the diffusing knowledge and facilitating the general introduction...application of science to the common purposes of life ;" — with the motto, " Illustrans commoda vitse." Fifty or sixty years ago the building was essentially... | |
 | John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 244 pages
...Royal Institution of Great Britain, incorporated by Royal Charter in the year 1800, "for the diffusing knowledge and facilitating the general introduction...the application of science to the common purposes of life;"—with the motto, " Illustrans commoda vitas." Fifty or sixty years ago the building was essentially... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1872 - 518 pages
...Proposals for forming, by subscription in the metropolis of the British empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general...application of science to the common purposes of life — by Benjamin, Count Rnmford, FRS," &c.; in octavo, 54 pp. ; Cadell & Davies, 1799. The following... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1880 - 646 pages
...Great Britain," chiefly indebted for its origin to an American, was founded in 1800, "for difl'usiug the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction...application of science to the common purposes of life." A glance at the names of a few of the great organizations instituted in different parts of the world... | |
 | J.M Thomas - 1991 - 248 pages
...support of the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, he founded in 1799 ... for diffusing and facilitating the general introduction of useful...application of science to the common purposes of life. By 1802, however, Rumford was locked in disagreement with the Managers of the Royal Institution. He... | |
 | E. A. Davis - 2003 - 370 pages
...how to create (by subscription) ‘in the Metropolis of the British Empire a Public Institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general...application of science to the common purposes of life'. The declared policy of reporting the highlights of discussions of, and papers presented at, the premier... | |
 | 814 pages
...The principal educational function of the Royal Institution was to provide public enlightenment by "diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general...application of science to the common purposes of life." In 1896 the chemist and industrialist Ludwig Mond, a German Jew who made his fortune in England, gave... | |
 | Myles W. Jackson - 2000 - 308 pages
...the communicability of scientific knowledge. The Royal Institution was founded with the purpose of "diffusing the Knowledge, and facilitating the general...application of Science to the common Purposes of Life." 175 Beginning in early 1826, a year after being approached by the Joint Committee, Faraday began to... | |
 | June Z. Fullmer - 2000 - 420 pages
..."Proposals for Forming by Subscription, In the Metropolis of the British Empire, a Public Institution for Diffusing the Knowledge and Facilitating the General...the Application of Science to the Common Purposes of Life."16 On 7 March 1799 at the house of Sir Joseph Banks, with the financial support of fifty-eight... | |
 | John Richardson - 2000 - 416 pages
...45, in 1801 ; he is buried inToxteth, Liverpool. ROYAL INSTITUTION FOUNDED The Royal Institution for 'diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general...of useful mechanical inventions and improvements' was founded on 9 March this year at the house of Joseph Banks. 1800 AN ATTEMPT ON THE KING'S LIFE On... | |
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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... 
