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SUMMARY:History of Science : Gaiters and gunpowder - the extraordinary sto
 ry of Richard Watson\, professor of chemistry and bishop. - Prof. Colin A.
 Russell\, The Open University and the University of Cambridge.
DTSTART:20061019T180000Z
DTEND:20061019T190000Z
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CONTACT:John Wilkins
DESCRIPTION:Richard Watson was the 5th Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge
 \, from 1764 to 1771. He was skilled in applied chemistry and wrote the fa
 mous Chemical Essays.  He then moved from Chemistry to Theology and later 
 still became Bishop of Llandaff\, where he acquired an unenviable reputati
 on for never being there.  Nor was he at Cambridge\, for he returned to hi
 s native Cumbria where he erected a splendid mansion\, became a keen agric
 ulturalist\, introduced hundreds of foreign trees into the Lake District\,
  still experimented in chemistry and came up with a greatly improved form 
 of gunpowder\, just at the time when the British Navy most needed it. Did 
 his work contribute to the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars? Come a
 nd find out!\n\nThis talk was prepared to mark the tercentenary of the Cha
 ir of Chemistry at Cambridge\, the oldest continuously occupied chair of c
 hemistry in Britain. (See "The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge\, Tran
 sformation and Change"\, edited by Mary D. Archer\, University of Cambridg
 e).
LOCATION:Unilever Lecture Theatre\, Unilever Centre\, Chemistry\, Departme
 nt of
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