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Royal Institution

British

noun

a British society founded in 1799 for the dissemination of scientific knowledge

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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said Thursday that both buyer demand and sales volumes are in negative territory, with a pickup not expected until the Spring selling season next year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

More successes followed in the 1970s and 1980s, including "Arcadia", which in 2006 was one of four works shortlisted by the Royal Institution of Great Britain as the best book ever written about science.

From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025

I talk about in the book how once upon a time the Royal Institution was supported by the love or size of three other institutions.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2023

The competition, supported by BBC News and The Royal Institution, is designed to get young people writing and thinking about the big questions in science, technology, engineering and/or mathematics.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023

Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy; delivered at the Royal Institution, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

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