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Presidential Address: Early Years at the Royal Institution*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Thomas Martin
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Abstract

The paper covers a period of little more than two years in the early history of the Royal Institution, but it is the period in which the house in Albemarle Street was purchased and Count Rumford devoted all his energies to establishing in it the Institution he had conceived. The house was enlarged and adapted to its new purpose; at first a temporary and later the well-known lecture theatre were built. The first Resident Professor and lecturer in the new theatre was Thomas Garnett, whose brief and unhappy connection with the Royal Institution is recorded.

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Research Article
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , December 1964 , pp. 99 - 115
Copyright
Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1964

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References

* Anderson's Institution developed into the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, now the Strathclyde University.

* Davis, A. H. and Kaye, G. H. C., The Acoustics of Buildings, London, 1927, pp. 130–134.Google Scholar

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