Fleming went to Loudoun Moor School and Darvel School, and earned a two-year scholarship to Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London, where he attended the Royal Polytechnic Institution.

His other alma mater, the Royal Polytechnic Institution ( now the University of Westminster ) has named one of its student halls of residence Alexander Fleming House, which is near to Old Street.

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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution opened a lifeboat station at the Sand Quay in 1878, but it was closed in 1896.

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In 1936, before the Royal Institution, Wells called for the compilation of a constantly growing and changing World Encyclopaedia, to be reviewed by outstanding authorities and made accessible to every human being.

As professor at the Royal Institution, Davy would later repeat many of the ingenious experiments which he had learned from his Quaker instructor.

* Electric Lamps and Electric Lighting: A course of four lectures on electric illumination delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ( 1894 ) 228 pages,.

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In 1908 Oliver Lodge gave a speech in behalf of Lord Rayleigh to the Royal Institution on this topic, in which he outlined its physical properties, and then attempted to offer reasons why they were not impossible.

Others criticized it as an " English invention ", although Rayleigh jokingly corrected them to state it was actually an invention of the Royal Institution.

Richard Bartelot, of the Royal Artillery Institution, said that the bow was of yew, 6 feet ( 1. 83 m ) long, with a 3 foot ( 914 mm ) arrow.

Despite these warnings, about one vehicle each month is stranded on the causeway, requiring rescue by either Seahouses Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat or RAF helicopter.

* Royal Institution Lecture-MRI: A Window on the Human Body

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He repeated this to the Royal Institution ( February 4, 1892 ).

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

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On 26 January 1926, Baird repeated the transmission for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times in his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in the Soho district of London.

* Royal Manchester Institution ( 1823-1882 ), a learned society promoting the arts in Manchester, England

In 1804, he was chosen to give a course of lectures on natural philosophy at the Royal Institution in London, where he delivered another course in 1809 – 1810.

A bust of Dalton, by Chantrey, was publicly subscribed for and placed in the entrance hall of the Royal Manchester Institution.

* The Royal Institution ’ s 1974 – 75 Christmas Lecture Professor Eric Laithwaite

Prompted by the Scot, Charles Wyville Thomson — of the University of Edinburgh and Merchiston Castle School — the Royal Society of London obtained the use of Challenger from the Royal Navy and in 1872 modified the ship for scientific work, equipping her with separate laboratories for natural history and chemistry.

Shortly after the closure of the Woolwich Royal Ordnance Factories the Frog Island chemical laboratories were moved into a new building erected in 1971, in what was to become the Royal Arsenal East.

In 1996, Royal decree No. 7 / b / 11155, with the consent of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and the Chairman of the Board of Higher Education, sought separate dental and technical laboratories from the college of medicine and medical science in Dammam.

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

According to Lowenstein ( p. 234 ), LTCM lost $ 286 million in equity pairs trading and more than half of this loss is accounted for by the Royal Dutch Shell trade.

In the Royal Navy the battle has been commemorated by the ship names HMS Aboukir and HMS Nile and in 1998 the 200th anniversary of the battle was commemorated by a visit to Aboukir Bay by the modern frigate HMS Somerset, whose crew laid wreaths in memory of those who lost their lives in the battle.

The arms shipment was lost when the German ship carrying it, Aud, was scuttled after interception by the Royal Navy, after the local Volunteers had failed to rendezvous with it.

Although it was never able to match the number of ships of the Royal Navy, it had technological advantages, such as better shells and propellant for much of the Great War, meaning that it never lost a ship to a catastrophic magazine explosion from an above-water attack, although the elderly pre-dreadnought Pommern sank rapidly at Jutland after a magazine explosion caused by an underwater attack.

The design for the coin was meant to be a voyageur theme, similar to the country's previous one dollar / silver dollar coin, but the master dies were lost or stolen while in transit to the Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg.

Newman lost no time in establishing the renowned Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University and recruited the engineers Frederic Calland Williams and Thomas Kilburn where they built the world's first electronic stored-program digital computer based on Turing's ideas.

The Kriegsmarine, already numerically far inferior to Britain's Royal Navy, had lost a sizable portion of its large modern surface units in April 1940 during the Norwegian Campaign, either as complete losses or due to battle damage.

* 1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End.

With the 1940 election looming, Menzies lost his Chief of the General Staff and three loyal ministers in a Royal Australian Airforce crash at Canberra airport.

The 1922 War Office report detailed the casualties of " soldiers who lost their lives ", " killed in action, died as prisoners, died of wounds and missing " from the Regular and Territorial Forces and Royal Naval Division: 702, 410 from the UK, 507 from " other colonies " and 2, 393 British serving in the Indian Empire Army.

The Cup was then lost to the Royal Perth Yacht Club of Australia, which entered the Australia II into the contest.

There is a drawing by Raphael in the Royal Collection of Leonardo's lost Leda and the Swan, from which he adapted the contrapposto pose of his own Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

She lost the style of Royal Highness but was allowed the style " Sarah, Duchess of York ".

She lost the style of Royal Highness but was allowed the style " Diana, Princess of Wales " and continued to be treated as a member of the Royal Family and was accorded the same precedence she enjoyed whilst being married to The Prince of Wales when accompanying her children, The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry, second and third in line, respectively, to the throne.

He had been introduced as " His Royal Highness Prince Edward " for the abdication broadcast, but George VI felt that by abdicating and renouncing the succession Edward had lost the right to bear royal titles, including " Royal Highness ".

* Exploring our archives, a blog by researchers at the Royal Society exploring Hooke's lost manuscript

The Royal Opera House, constructed at the city entrance in the 19th century, was one of the buildings lost to the raids.

The Virginia Company lost its Royal Charter for North America (" Virginia ") in 1622, and the Crown assumed responsibility for the administration of the continental colony.

Although significantly outnumbering the Germans, the Royal Flying Corps lost 131 aircraft during the first week of April alone.

Liddell Hart says British Fighter Command lost 106 aircraft dogfighting over Dunkirk, and the Luftwaffe lost about 135 – some of which were shot down by the French Navy and the Royal Navy ; but MacDonald says the British lost 177 aircraft and the Germans lost 240.