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" Premium to the author of any important discovery or useful improvement in light or heat, which shall have been made and published by printing, or in any way made known to the public, in any part of the continent of America, or any of the American Islands;... "
Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford: With Notices of His Daughter - Page 266
by George Edward Ellis - 1871 - 680 pages
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

1797 - 614 pages
...biennial premium ' to the author of the most important discovery, or useful improvement, which shall be made and published by printing, or in any way made known to the p1iblic, iu any part of Europe, during the preceding two years, on /<;it or on light.' The Society...
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The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on ..., Volume 2

Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...premium to the author of ** the most important discovery, or useful improvement, whicTi 156 " shall be made, and published by printing, or in any way " made...public in any part of the continent of " America, or in any of the American islands, during the " preceding two years, on heat, or on light ; the preference...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register, Volume 2

English literature - 1814 - 642 pages
...public in any part of Europe, during (he preceding two years, on heat or light; the preference to be always given to such discoveries as shall in the opinion of the president and council tend most to the benefit of mankind. To his active exertions also must be chiefly...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 84, Part 2; Volume 116

Early English newspapers - 1814 - 780 pages
...publick in any part of Europe, during the preceding two yean, on heat or light; the preference to be always given to such discoveries as shall in the opinion of the President and Council tend most to the benefit of mankind. To bis active exertions also must be chiefly...
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Memoirs, Volume 4, Parts 1-2

American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1818 - 474 pages
...year as a premium, to the author of the most important discovery or useful improvement, which shall be made and published by printing or in any way made...public in any part of the continent of America, or in any of the American islands during the preceding two years, on heat and on light ; the preference...
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The Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts, Volume 1

Science - 1824 - 628 pages
...year, as a premium to the author of the most important discovery, or useful improvement, which shall be made and published by printing, or in any way made...public, in any part of the continent of America, or in any of the American islands, during the preceding two years, on heat, or on light, the preference...
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Gill's technological [afterw.] Gill's scientific, technological ..., Volume 2

Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1828 - 436 pages
...year as a premium, to the author of the most important discovery or useful improvement^ which shall be made and published by printing, or in any way made...public in any part of the continent of America, or in any of the American islands, during the preceding two years, on heat or on light; the preference...
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Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the ...

Meteorology - 1828 - 888 pages
...biennially, on " the author of the most important discovery, or useful improvement, which shall be made, and published by printing, or in any way made known to the public," has never been awarded, although, nearly thirty years have elapsed, since the time at which it should...
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The Christian Advocate, Volume 7

Presbyterianism - 1829 - 550 pages
...take into consideration the discoveries and useful improvements which may come to their knowledge, which shall have been " made and published by printing,...public in any part of the continent of America, or in any of the American Islands, during the preceding two years, on heat or on light ;" and will award...
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Gill's technological [afterw.] Gill's scientific, technological ..., Volume 3

Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 424 pages
...bestowed biennially, on " the author of the most important discovery, or useful improvement which shall be made and published by printing, or in any way made known to the public," has never been awarded, although nearly thirty years have elapsed since the time at which it should...
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