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- You cannot imagine how anxious the girls are to see you,
- William Murdock
William Murdock Born in Bellow Mill, near Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, August 21, 1754. Died at Sycamore Hill, November 15, 1839. When he was twenty-three years of age he entered the employment of the famous engineering firm of Boulton & Watt, at Soho, and there remained throughout his active life. Watt recognized in him a valuable assistant, and his services were jealously regarded. On his part he devoted himself unreservedly to the interests of his employers. - When the two women were within a few feet of each other
- Vertical section of skin
- Upper surface, bones of foot
- Two bald heads
- Toothache
- Thomas Blanchard
Thomas Blanchard Born in Sutton, Mass., June 24, 1788. Died, April 16, 1864. Blanchard was a prolific inventor, having taken out no less than thirty or forty patents for as many different inventions. He did not reap great benefit from his labors, for many of his inventions scarcely paid the cost of getting them up, while others were appropriated without payment to him, or even giving him credit. - They wanted him to put them in his stories
- Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research. - The spinal column
- The skeleton
- The skeleton
- The Salivary Glands
- The ribs removed, showing relation of thoracic to abdominal viscera
- The principal arteries and veins of the body
- The political economist
- The New Method of Artificial Breathing
- The Nervous System
- The natural and artificial positions of the foot
- The Musician
- The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott - The food route in the digestive system
- The diaphragm
- The bony thorax, anterior view
- The Bee
- The abdominal corset
- Tea for Two
- Surface veins and deep-lying arteries of inner side of right arm and hand
- Spica bandage of thumb
- Spica bandage of ankle
- Smelling the bottle
- Skeleton of head and trunk
- Sitz-bath tub made of tin
- She stopped and her face grew whiter
- She had stolen furtive glances at her
- Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick Born in Illogan, in the west of Cornwall, England, April 13, 1771. Died in Dartford, Kent, April 22, 1833. In 1780 he built a double-acting high-pressure engine with a crank, for Cook’s Kitchen mine. This was known as the Puffer, from the noise that it made, and it soon came into general use in Cornwall and South Wales, a successful rival of the low-pressure steam vacuum engine of Watt. - Relation of kidneys to heart and great blood-vessels
- Relation of heart and great vessels to the wall of the thorax
- Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria - Praying Hands
Praying Hands - Position of the thoracic and abdominal organs, rear view
- Position of the thoracic and abdominal organs, front view
- Play
- Pierre Mille
Pierre Mille - Outline diagram showing general plan and position of body-machinery
- Oliver Evans
Oliver Evans Born in 1755 or 1756, in Newport, Del. Died in Philadelphia, April 21, 1819. Little has been preserved respecting the early history of Oliver Evans, who has been aptly styled “The Watt of America.” His parents were farming people, and he had only an ordinary common-school education. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a wheelwright or wagonmaker, and continued his meager education by studying at night time by the light that he made by burning chips and shavings in the fireplace. - Old Lady
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- Normal chest
- Nathan Read
Born in Warren, Mass., July 2, 1759. Died near Belfast, Me., January 20, 1849. Graduated from Harvard College in 1781, Read was a tutor at Harvard for four years. In 1788 he began experimenting to discover some way of utilizing the steam engine for propelling boats and carriages. - Muscles of the right side of the head and neck
- Muscles of the posterior surface of the trunk
- Muscles of the anterior surface of the trunk 2
- Muscles of the anterior surface of the trunk
- Muscles in the leg