• The Society of the Mines Royal was one of two English mining monopoly companies incorporated by royal charter in 1568, the other being the Company of Mineral...
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    The Royal School of Mines comprises the departments of Earth Science and Engineering, and Materials at Imperial College London. The Centre for Advanced...
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    The Royal Mines Act 1688 (1 Will. & Mar. c. 30), sometimes referred to as the Mines Royal Act 1688, is an act of the Parliament of England. This act was...
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    under a "blanket lease" held by the Society of Mines Royal. It is not known whether Bulmer had a smelt mill on his mines, but in 1630 Charles Coare, from...
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  • The Company of Mineral and Battery Works was, with the Society of the Mines Royal, one of two mining monopolies created by Elizabeth I. The company's...
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    The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) is a learned society for the promotion of microscopy. It was founded in 1839 as the Microscopical Society of London...
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    created, the Company of Mineral and Battery Works and the Society of Mines Royal. The effects of the decision were limited by the Royal Mines Act 1688 (1 Will...
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  • William Yorke (died 1666) (category Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford)
    was elected Member of Parliament for Wiltshire in the First Protectorate Parliament. He was assistant of the Society of Mines Royal from 1654 to 1655 and...
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    The Royal Humane Society is a British charity which promotes lifesaving intervention. It was founded in England in 1774 as the Society for the Recovery...
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  • the recommendation of Lionel Ducket. His brother, John Dudley, was a shareholder and colleague of Ducket in the Society of Mines Royal. Dudley bought equipment...
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  • Firedamp (redirect from Mine Gas)
    dead at Wallsend in 1835. The problem of firedamp in mines had been brought to the attention of the Royal Society by 1677 and in 1733 James Lowther reported...
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  • interior on a quest for the fabled King Solomon's Mines. Quatermain has a map purporting to lead to the mines, but had never taken it seriously. He agrees...
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    Onslow then sought a means of avoiding the difficulty by his company acquiring the charters of Society of Mines Royal and Company of Mineral and Battery Works...
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  • Company") was one of two mining monopolies created by Queen Elizabeth I in the mid-1560s, the other being the Society of Mines Royal. The company's rights...
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  • The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall is a geological society originally based in Penzance, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1814 to...
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    Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
    membership of the Academy of Berlin, of the French Academy of Sciences, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1845), of the Royal Society of London, as a...
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    Mines Paris – PSL, officially École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (until May 2022 Mines ParisTech, also known as École des mines de Paris, ENSMP...
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    Davy lamp (category Mine safety)
    Fire-Damp of Coal Mines, and on Methods of Lighting the Mines So as to Prevent Its Explosion". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London...
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    Henri Victor Regnault (category Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala)
    Medal of the Royal Society of London and appointment as Chief Engineer of Mines. In 1851 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...
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    charcoal as fuel. The site had been used by the Silver Mills of the Society of Mines Royal. www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Furnace and surrounding area v t e...
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    The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (South Dakota Mines, SD Mines, or SDSM&T) is a public university in Rapid City, South Dakota. It is governed...
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    patent of Elizabeth I which established a new joint stock company called the Society of Mines Royal, Spinola is named as one of the principals of the Society...
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  • on the lines of the Royal School of Mines - London, and was formally inaugurated on 9 December 1926 by Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India. It started...
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    The Royal Television Society Programme Awards, (often referred to as the RTS Awards) seek to recognise programmes or individuals who have made a positive...
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  • London Lead Company (category Defunct companies of the United Kingdom)
    Quakers, is not to be confused with the Society of Mines Royal, which was by then largely moribund. It acquired lead mines in Flintshire from Lethicullier's...
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    The Mines and Collieries Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 99), commonly known as the Mines Act 1842, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act...
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    Henry Louis Le Chatelier (category Foreign members of the Royal Society)
    the École des Mines in Paris in 1871. Le Chatelier married Geneviève Nicolas, a friend of the family and sister of four fellow students of the Polytechnique...
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    Camborne School of Mines (Cornish: Scoll Balow Cambron), commonly abbreviated to CSM, was founded in 1888. Its research and teaching is related to the...
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  • negotiations towards the formation of the Society of Mines Royal. These discussions failed, but under licensed German enterprise mines in Cumberland, Lancashire...
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    mines, iron mines, iron and tinplate works, foundries, quarries and stone-dressing works, wood distillation works producing chemicals, a network of railways...
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