| Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen - 1914 - 472 Seiten
...Mines should be maintained as an Institution intended, in the words of the Prince Consort in 1851, "to direct the researches of science and to apply...our Isles and their numerous colonial dependencies." On the other hand, for thirteen years various schemes had been under consideration for establishing... | |
| Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen - 1914 - 468 Seiten
...Mines should be maintained as an Institution intended, in the words of the Prince Consort in 1851, "to direct the researches of science and to apply...our Isles and their numerous colonial dependencies." of those who were to teach the methods of science throughout the country. All these schemes had involved... | |
| Robert A. Stafford - 2002 - 312 Seiten
...Mines was also added to the Survey establishment in 1851. Prince Albert pointed out that the School was 'intended to direct the researches of science, and...our isles and their numerous colonial dependencies'. 106 De la Beche promoted his institution's usefulness by emphasising economic geology rather than the... | |
| Susan M. Pearce - 1996 - 242 Seiten
...unerring rise of specialization within it leading to useful and practical applications. He continued: In this view it is impossible to estimate too highly...our isles, and their numerous colonial dependencies. The agenda for this museum was thereby established from its inception with a clarity that few others... | |
| Carla Yanni - 2005 - 220 Seiten
...when Prince Albert opened the Museum of Practical Geology on May 12, 1851. As the Prince described it: it is impossible to estimate too highly the advantages...our isles, and their numerous colonial dependencies. 5 '' This was not basic science las we might call it today), but applied science. And, as Prince Albert... | |
| Julius Adams Stratton, Loretta H. Mannix - 2005 - 830 Seiten
...justly appreciates its general bearing.10 In his response Prince Albert spoke directly to the point: I rejoice in the proof thus afforded of the general...Providence to our isles and their numerous colonial dependencies.11 When the proposed School of Mines and of Science Applied to the Arts, as it was called,... | |
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