Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8
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Preface and Introduction
6:30 -
William Allen
4:09 -
Francis Baily
7:02 -
Sir Joseph Banks
10:34 -
Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham
14:57 -
Matthew Boulton
7:18 -
Joseph Bramah
9:34 -
Robert Brown
11:05 -
Sir Mark Isambard Brunel
9:08 -
Rev. Dr. Edmund Cartwright
7:56 -
Hon. Henry Cavendish
12:28 -
William Chapman
12:51 -
Sir William Congreve
4:17 -
Samuel Crompton
18:42 -
John Dalton
10:20 -
Sir Humphry Davy
18:10 -
Peter Dollond
4:59 -
Bryan Donkin
4:58 -
William James Frodsham
1:59 -
Davies Giddy Gilbert
7:20 -
Charles Hatchett
6:43 -
Dr. William Henry
10:31 -
Sir William Herschel
10:18 -
Edward Charles Howard
3:12 -
Captain Joseph Huddart
7:07 -
Dr. Edward Jenner
19:08 -
William Jessop
9:28 -
Capt. Henry Kater
6:38 -
Sir John Leslie
11:21 -
Dr. Nevil Maskelyne
8:14 -
Henry Maudslay
8:40 -
Patrick Miller
5:24 -
William Murdock
8:56 -
Robert Mylne
4:03 -
Alexander Nasmyth
3:34 -
John Playfair
13:28 -
John Rennie
14:00 -
Francis Ronalds
8:06 -
Count Rumford, Benjamin Thompson
18:02 -
Dr. Daniel Rutherford
2:07 -
William Smith
13:58 -
Charles, Earl Stanhope
6:57 -
William Symington
10:32 -
Thomas Telford
16:42 -
Charles Tennant
9:59 -
Dr. Thomas Thomson
5:29 -
Richard Trevithick
16:15 -
Edward Troughton
8:05 -
Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff
10:51 -
James Watt
13:30 -
Dr. William H. Wollaston
10:15 -
Dr. Thomas Young
14:57 -
Dr. Joseph Black
9:48 -
Henry Cort
10:14 -
James Ivory
7:55 -
Joseph Priestly
11:20
Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8 (1864) is a public domain work.
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Workshops, laboratories and observatories supply the setting for this collection of brief scientific lives, compiled and arranged by William Walker. The revised second edition appeared in 1864, with an introduction by Robert Hunt and an appendix of further biographies. Chemists, astronomers and engineers appear alongside inventors whose work changed manufacturing and transport. Each memoir names the sources used to assemble its account.
The entry on William Allen connects his chemical training and hospital lectures with experiments, astronomical interests and the schools he established near Lindfield. Henry Maudslay receives a detailed account of his workshop skills, precision tools and improvements to screw cutting. His work with Bramah and Brunel shows how mechanical knowledge passed between collaborators. Readers interested in the history of science can follow both the individual careers and the practical problems that gave their work a purpose.
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