Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R.E.,F.R.A.S., Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1835-1840 |
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... BARS - THE COMPENSA- TION MICROSCOPES - THE INVENTION OF THE BARS - MEASURE- MENT OF THE BASE AT LOUGH FOYLE , . CHAPTER IX . 79-112 THE ORDNANCE SURVEY - MR DRUMMOND'S HEALTH — THE DRUM- MOND LIGHT , AND LIGHTHOUSES LETTER BY CAPTAIN ...
... BARS - THE COMPENSA- TION MICROSCOPES - THE INVENTION OF THE BARS - MEASURE- MENT OF THE BASE AT LOUGH FOYLE , . CHAPTER IX . 79-112 THE ORDNANCE SURVEY - MR DRUMMOND'S HEALTH — THE DRUM- MOND LIGHT , AND LIGHTHOUSES LETTER BY CAPTAIN ...
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... bar , and had actually entered his name at Lincoln's Inn with this view . " That he should have been disheartened , is not surprising . In his letters in the spring of 1818 , he complained of his prospects , and longed for , what he saw ...
... bar , and had actually entered his name at Lincoln's Inn with this view . " That he should have been disheartened , is not surprising . In his letters in the spring of 1818 , he complained of his prospects , and longed for , what he saw ...
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... bar , Drummond , in a letter from Plymouth , urged several reasons against his doing so - the chief being that he had not the natural qualifications to attain eminence in the profession . " Were his nature and energy of such a kind as ...
... bar , Drummond , in a letter from Plymouth , urged several reasons against his doing so - the chief being that he had not the natural qualifications to attain eminence in the profession . " Were his nature and energy of such a kind as ...
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... bar , rod , or chain as shall have fewest of those qualities , and be least subject to those conditions in the use , which are the sources of errors of measurement ; and in regard to the second set of opera- tions , that , as the ...
... bar , rod , or chain as shall have fewest of those qualities , and be least subject to those conditions in the use , which are the sources of errors of measurement ; and in regard to the second set of opera- tions , that , as the ...
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... BARS ; THE BASE AT LOUGH FOYLE . THE period of invention and improvement which pre- ceded the commencement of the Irish Survey had other results besides those which have been described . To procure apparatus which would secure rapidity ...
... BARS ; THE BASE AT LOUGH FOYLE . THE period of invention and improvement which pre- ceded the commencement of the Irish Survey had other results besides those which have been described . To procure apparatus which would secure rapidity ...
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