Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young (1860)
Timbs, John, 1801-1875 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 154
His mode of tem-pering the Kirby fish-hooks was among his lesser dis-coveries. Nor must Ruperts pursuits in Glass-making be for-gotten. The prince had at Chelsea an experimentalglass-house, which adjoined Chelsea College; for we findby the Council Minutes of the Royal Society that thecollege and… … PRINOE RUPEKTS LaBOEATORY IN WINDSOR CaSTLB : ViSIT OP CHARLES II. Ruperts residence in Windsor castle. 151 consider the Society, on account of the mischief thathis glass-house was doing to the college (Welds His-tory of the JRoyal Society^ vol. i., p. 279). After the Restoration Rupert was…
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