 | Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1803 - 522 pages
...1796: the interest of which is, by the terms of the donation, to be ' applied and given, once evei y second year, as a premium to the author of the most...discovery or useful improvement which shall be made known to the public in any part of the continent of America, or in any of the American islands, during... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1814 - 620 pages
...contributor, l.OOOf. stock in the 3 per cent consols, with a view that the interest be applied every two years as a premium to the author of the most important discovery or useful improvement which shall be made known to the public in any part of Europe, during the preceding two years, on heat or light; the preference... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 670 pages
...improvements in the steam engine. It was directed by Count Rumford that the premium should be given *' to the author of the most important discovery or useful improvement, which shall be m ide and published by printing or in any way made known to the publick, in any part of the Continent... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1871 - 772 pages
...thousand pounds, the interest of it to be devoted to a premium to be awarded " once every second year, to the author of the most important discovery or useful improvement which " " shall to made known to the public, in any part of Europe, during the preceding two years, on heat and light;... | |
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American islands, during the preceding two years, on Heat or on Light ; the preference always being given to such discoveries as shall, in the opinion of the Academy, tend most to promote the good of mankind. 
