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	Royal Institution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The institution gained its Royal Charter in 1800 and supports public engagement with science through various lectures, many of which continue today.
		Ten chemical elements including sodium were discovered at the Institution, as well as the electric generator and the atomic structure of crystals.
		As of 2005, the Royal Institution is seeking to raise Â£24 million to redevelop its premises.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Institution (299 words)

	Victorian London - Education - Professional / Technical Colleges / Institutions - Royal Institution of Great Britain
		The Royal Institution, in Albemarle Street, was incorporated by royal charter of George III., in 1808, for the purpose of diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.
		ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN, Albemarle Street, Piccadilly, was founded for the promotion and diffusion of science and useful knowledge, in 1799, at the house of Sir Joseph Banks, the then president of the Royal Society, and incorporated by Royal Charter, in 1800.
		His lectures in the plain little theatre of the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street, from behind the table laden with apparatus for experiments, were much frequented, perhaps the most popular of them being "The Chemical History of a Candle".
	www.victorianlondon.org /education/royalinstitution.htm (810 words)

	The Royal Institution of Great Britain
		Early in 1813 there was a fight in the main lecture theatre of the Royal Institution between the Instrument Maker and the Chemical Assistant which resulted in the dismissal of the latter.
		Faraday was part of this effort and on 3 and 4 September 1821 in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution, he undertook a set of experiments which culminated in his discovery of electro-magnetic rotation - the principle behind the electric motor.
		The Royal Institution‘s Faraday Museum, which was opened by Her Majesty the Queen in 1973, is open to the public during normal weekday office hours.
	www.rigb.org /rimain/heritage/faradaypage.jsp (2507 words)

	Photographs of Chemical Samples, Imperial College
		Foundation stone laid by the Prince of Wales on June 16, 1846, for the Royal College of Chemistry, with a close-up.
		William Crookes was at the Royal College of Chemistry during the 1850s, and is credited with the discovery of the element Thallium in 1861 (and, controversially, with C. Lamy its isolation as a metal in 1862).
		Royal Institution of Great Britain, along with numerous compounds of thallium.
	www.ch.ic.ac.uk /heritage/photos.html (576 words)

	ific.org : Why It Matters: How Health and Science Issues are Reported (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Social Issues Research Centre in partnership with the Royal Society and the Royal Institution of Great Britain developed Guidelines on Science and Health Communication specifically for print and broadcast journalists and science and health professionals, which were issued in 2001.
		To help scientists and journalists act on that assumption, the Social Issues Research Centre and the Royal Institution of Great Britain brought together a forum of highly acclaimed scientists, physicians, medical specialists, and members of the media to establish guidelines that acknowledged the right of journalists to comment and editorialize.
		Subsequently, the Royal Society published Scientists and the Media: Guidelines for Scientists Working with the Media and Comments on a Press Code of Practice, which was endorsed by the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology.
	www.ific.org /foodinsight/2003/nd/reportingfi603.cfm (1084 words)

	The Royal Institution of Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		He was Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution from 1802 until 1812 when he retired following marriage to Jane Apreece, a wealthy heiress.
		He established the Royal Institution’s reputation for the provision of excellent lectures and also for scientific research by his isolation of sodium and potassium using the new electric battery as well as by formulating a coherent theory of electro-chemical action.
		His Presidency of the Royal Society was not a success and after resigning he toured the Continent dying in Geneva.
	www.rigb.org /rimain/heritage/ripeople/davy.jsp (201 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - Scientist calls for 'peace corps' to help combat disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Baroness Susan Greenfield, the Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University and director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, said students and recent graduates could spend time in poorer countries helping to combat disease and improving their economies.
		The Oxford University professor, who was controversially denied membership of the prestigious Royal Society after several fellows reportedly threatened to resign, said that science could be used as a force for good, with greater understanding of the brain helping to reduce violence.
		She suggested students and working scientists - in research institutes and universities - could be twinned with teachers to enable children to see a more exciting side to science in sophisticated laboratories, rather than in dry text books.
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	The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the ...
		The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 1859-60.
		Faraday first showed that under great pressure it could be obtained in a liquid state.
		Again, if you are really so inclined (and I do hope all of you are), you will find a great deal of philosophy in this [holding up a cork and a pointed thin stick about a foot long].
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	Professor Susan Greenfield - Social Issues Research Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		She became Director of The Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1998.
		In 1994 she was the first woman to give the Royal Institution Christmas lectures and has subsequently made a wide range of broadcasts on TV and radio, as well as appearing as the scientist in a variety of interviews and pieces, such as "Visionaries" in Tomorrow's World and "Innovations" on BBC Breakfast TV.
		She has been profiled in most of the broadsheets and was included as one of the 50 most powerful women in Britain by the Guardian and ranked number 14 in the "50 Most Inspirational Women in the World" by Harpers and Queen.
	www.sirc.org /about/susan_greenfield.html (672 words)

	The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Anderson will make part of this red-hot in the fire, we shall then find that it will become soft, just as sealing-wax will when heated, and we shall also find that the more it is heated the softer it becomes.
		This, then, is a great step in advance, for you have learned a great deal in addition to the mere circumstance that particles attract each other.
		See how it runs about as I move the upper one, and this is all owing to the strong attraction of the particles of the water.
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	AIM25: Royal Institution of Great Britain: Dewar, Sir James (1842-1923)
		He was elected Jacksonian Professor of Natural Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge, in 1873, and became Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at The Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI) in 1877.
		(DE12) Royal Institution 1885-1924, relates to messages and letters to, from or concerning Dewar, his role at the RI and general administrative issues.
		The Royal Institution of Great Britain holds portraits, spectroscopic equipment and early cryogenic apparatus including the Dewar flask known as the 'Thermos' flask, of Sir James Dewar.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/17/2955.htm (995 words)

	AIM25: Royal Institution of Great Britain: Thompson, Sir Benjamin, Count von Rumford (1753-1814)
		He was given employment at the Colonial Office and occupied himself with various experiments such as the optimal position of firing vents in canons and the velocity of shot.
		In 1799, he helped found the Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI) with the idea of making it into a museum for technology to educate the poor.
		The Royal Institution of Great Britain holds the Gillray cartoon of Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=3080&inst_id=17 (800 words)

	AIM25: Royal Institution of Great Britain: Pepys, William Hasledine (1775-1856)
		He was an original manager of the London Institution and was Honorary Secretary from 1821 to 1824.
		He was active in the management of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI) and was its Vice-President in 1816.
		Pep F (Royal Institution) is a bound volume containing various notices of meetings, proposed bye-laws and accounts relating to the RI, 1806-1810.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/17/3283.htm (434 words)

	NEC: News Release 97/04/07-01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Established by Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson) under Royal Charter in 1799, The Royal Institution is the oldest independent research establishment in the world.
		It is both a world class center of scientific research and a pioneer in the popularization of science, and has been home to some of the great scientists of the last 200 years.
		Dr. Sumio Iijima's invitation to lecture to The Royal Institution is only the fifth to a Japanese researcher, and is recognition of his leading efforts in the field of carbon nanotube research.
	www.nec.co.jp /press/en/9704/0701.html (490 words)

	Faraday Lectures: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Michael Faraday's lecture notes for his first series of Christmas Lectures `adapted to a juvenile audience' constitute pages 165 through 205 (page 172 is blank) of one of several similarly bound collections in the Archives of The Royal Institution of Great Britain in London.
		The resulting book is as close as we can ever come to `hearing' what it was that made Faraday as legendary as a lecturer as he proved immortal as a natural philosopher.
		It is significant that in Faraday's guest appearance on the new British £20 note (he replaces Shakespeare as Elizabeth II's companion) he is shown not downstairs in his basement research laboratory but upstairs lecturing in the famous cockpit/theatre of the Royal Institution.
	www.woodrow.org /teachers/chemistry/institutes/faraday/intro.html (993 words)

	cars - Royal Institution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		More recently, fourteen of the Royal Institute's resident scientists have won Nobel Prizes.
		Ten chemical elements including sodium were discovered at the Institute, as well as the electric generator and the atomic structure of crystals.
		As of 2005, the Royal Institute is seeking to raise £24 million to redevelop its premises.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Royal_Institution (276 words)

	Search Results for royal institution of chartered surveyors - Encyclopædia Britannica
		the oldest scientific society in Great Britain and one of the oldest in Europe, founded in 1660.
		One of Britain's principal concert halls and major landmarks, it is located south of the Albert Memorial and north of the Imperial College of Science,...
		Franz Schubert was a student at the Royal Imperial Academy in Vienna when Napoleon attacked the city.
	britannica.com /search?query=royal+institution+of+chartered+surveyors (584 words)

	Royal Institution Appoints First-Ever Woman Director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Greenfield's credentials as someone able to bridge the gap between scientists and non-scientists - one of the main reasons the Royal Institution was originally established - are impeccable.
		She has a column in the Independent on Sunday, and will shortly be presenting a major six-part BBC2 television series on the brain and mind.
		For the first time in its almost-two-hundred-year history, the Royal Institution of Great Britain has appointed a woman as its director.
	www.scienceagogo.com /news/19980608040402data_trunc_sys.shtml (367 words)

	The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		I may even bend it without breaking it—that is to say, I may bend it in one particular direction without breaking it much, although I feel in my hands that I am doing it some injury.
		They were not, as is commonly supposed, invented by Prince Rupert, but were first brought to England by him in 1660.
		They excited a great deal of curiosity, and were considered “a king of miracle in nature.” [ back ]
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	The Royal Institution of Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		After attending a local school he was apprenticed to the surgeon and mathematician John Dawson which allowed him to matriculate in 1785 at the University of Edinburgh where he studied medicine.
		He practiced medicine in Bradford, Knaresborough and Harrogate, but by the mid 1790s he had established a reputation as a lecturer in natural philosophy and had successfully delivered lectures in Liverpool, Manchester and the Anderson’s Institution in Glasgow.
		These successes led to his appointment at the Royal Institution where he delivered the first lecture there in March 1800.
	www.rigb.org /rimain/heritage/ripeople/garnett.jsp (111 words)

	VNN World - "Forbidden Archeologist's" Royal Institution Debut
		USA, May 20 (VNN) — The prestigious Royal Institution of Great Britain hosted Michael A. Cremo, aka Drutakarma Dasa, for a Public Lecture on Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race Wednesday evening, May 3 in London.
		Speaking before an audience of 400 members of the Royal Institution and members of the public sector, he presented evidence from Vedic literature suggesting that human civilizations have existed on this planet for millions of years in the course of cyclical time.
		Drutakarma is a Research Associate in the History of Science for the Bhaktivedanta Institute of ISKCON, a member of the History of Science Society, Philosophy of Science Association, and European Association of Archaeologists.
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	WIRE - RE Literature: Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		WIRE - RE Literature: Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
		Since its foundation in 1799, the Royal Institution of Great Britain has aimed to inspire enthusiasm and excitement for science.
		The Friday Evening Discourses form one of the most prestigious series of lectures on science in the world; famous scientists describe their work in language accessible to a general audience.
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		Royal Institution of Great Britain: Proceedings: Vol 66 (Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain)
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	ABOUT ASTRONOMY AND LEARNING TO SEE
		In the midst of it all was quiet John Flamsteed, one of the great astronomers of all time.
		Throughout the 1800s royal medals were the medium of scientific recognition.
		It was the Danish Royal Medal, and the winner was Maria Mitchell, who won it for discovering a new comet in 1847.
	www.uh.edu /engines/astron.htm (3848 words)

	ENC Online: ENC Features: Classroom Calendar: Michael Faraday (Grades 8-12) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In 1813, prepared by this education and fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Faraday went to work for the Royal Institution, Britain's premier scientific research institution, as a chemistry lab assistant.
		After ten years with the Institution, having been promoted to Superintendent of the House, he discovered that the gas chlorine could be liquefied.
		As a professor of chemistry at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich from 1830 to 1851, he advised the British government on issues ranging from the quality of oats served to sailors at sea, to ways to reduce explosions inside mines, to military strategy.
	www.enc.org /features/calendar/unit/0,1819,196,00.shtm (1521 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Charles reveals his favourite vegetables
		Mr Welberry is able to find as much merit in the sprout as the prince does: it is full of vitamins, low in fat, packed with folic acid and a great source of dietary fibre.
		In February it was voted - not for the first time - Britain's most hated vegetable.
		Baroness Greenfield director, Royal Institution of Great Britain - mashed potatoes "because they are comfort food and go with lots of other things, and corn on the cob because it was a great treat when I was young as they were deemed to be a great luxury"
	www.guardian.co.uk /monarchy/story/0,2763,1236370,00.html (604 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Proceedings Of the Royal Insitution Of Great Britain Volume 71 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Since its foundation in 1799, the Royal Institution of Great Britain has inspired enthusiasm and excitement for science, as a means to understanding the world around us.
		The Friday Evening Discourses were initiated by Michael Faraday in 1826 and are one of the most prestigious series of popular science lectures in the world.
		This new selection of essays from the Royal Institution offers fascinating and authoritative accounts of current thinking in diverse areas of science, ranging from cosmic rays to the development of new materials that seem to have a life of their own.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198509928 (273 words)

	Who Was James Smithson - 3 of 6
		design of the Royal Society was to improve the knowledge of natural things, and all useful arts, manufactures, mechanick practises, engynes and inventions by experiments--(not meddling with divinity, metaphysics, moralls, politicks, grammar, rhetorick, or logick.)"
		"[The Royal Institution's purpose is] diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical improvements."
		He and his friend Henry Cavendish, a noted chemist and physicist, were fellows of the Royal Society of London and charter members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
	www.sil.si.edu /Exhibitions/Smithson-to-Smithsonian/who_03.html (188 words)

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