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Brande

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Chemist, born in London; author of "Manual of Chemistry" and other works (1788-1866).

Braille

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A blind Frenchman, invented printing in relief for the blind (1809-1852).

British Association

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An association, of Sir David Brewster's suggestion, of men of all departments of science for the encouragement of scientific research and the diffusion of scientific knowledge, which holds its ...

A western fertile prov. of British America, extending between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific, and from the United States on the S. to Alaska on the N., being 800 m. long and four times the size ...

British Museum

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A national institution in London for the collection of MSS., books, prints and drawings, antiquities, and objects of natural history, ethnology, etc.; founded as far back as 1700, though not opened, ...

Britannia Tubular Bridge

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A railway bridge spanning the Menai Strait, designed by Robert Stephenson, and completed in 1850; consists of hollow tubes of wrought-iron plates riveted together, and took five years in erecting.