The Royal Institution : Its Founder and its First Professors (Paperback)

Preface; 1. The life of Count Rumford before the foundation of the Institution; 2. His life after the foundation of the Institution; 3. The early history of the Institution, 1790?1800, with the life of Professor Garnett, 1766?1802; 4. The progress of the Institution to the resignation of Professor Young, 1801?3, with the life of Dr. Thomas Young, 1773?1829; 5. The further progress of the Institution to the time of Faraday, 1804?14; 6. The life of Sir Humphry Davy, 1788?1829; Appendix: 1. Original papers regarding the American war; 2. Original letters from Dr. Thomas Young; 3. Income and expenditure of the Royal Institution to 1814; Index.