INDEX
Reading edition
A
Abel, 240
Acetylene gas, 219
Acheson, 312
Ægeans, 55, 56
Aerial Age, 326
Age of Bronze, 15
Age of Copper, 15
Age of Iron, 19
Age of Steam, 179 et seq
Air-brake, 278
Air-pump, 142, 143
Airships, 326
Alchemy, 208
Alexander, 69 to 97
Alexandria, 77
Alphabet, 58
Aluminum, 213, 302
Ampère, 198, 199
Analine dyes, 265
Antipyrene, 298
Antiseptic surgery, 274
Antitoxin, 328
Appleby, 292
Application of hot air to furnaces, 213
Arago, 198
Arc-light, 183, 235
Archimedes, 78, 79, 149, 176
Aristotle, 139
Arithmetic, 35
Arkwright, 172
Artificial limbs, 239
Artificial silk, 304
Assur, 38
Assyria, 39, 40
Astrology, 31
Astronomy, 24, 29
Atlantic cable, 266
Atomic Theory, 210
Atwood's machine, 163
Automatic arc-light, 235
Automatic car-coupler, 285
Automatic grain-binder, 273, 292
Automatic piano, 221
Autoplate, 318
B
Babbage, 201
Babbitt metal, 220
Babylonian measures, 32
Babylonian religion, 38
Bacillus of cholera, 298
Bacillus of diphtheria, 298
Bacillus of hydrophobia, 298
Bacillus of infantile paralysis, 329
Bacillus of lockjaw, 298
Bacillus of tuberculosis, 298
Bacillus of typhus fever, 329
Bacon, Francis, 139, 140, 162
Bacon, Roger, 124
Baldwin, 217
Balista, 44
Band wood-saw, 184, 302
Barbed-wire fence, 273
Barometer, 142
Battle of the Nile, 189, 190
Bazaine, 281
Bémont, 314
Becquerel Rays, 313, 314
Behel, 273
Bell, 287, 302
Berliner, 292
Bernoulli, 164
Bessemer's process, 248
Bicycle, 265
Bismarck, 283
Black, 171, 175
Blake telephone-transmitter, 294
Bonaparte, 177, 178
Bourdon, 244
Bow and arrow, 4, 5
Bowers, 302
Boyle, 141
Braithwaite, 214
Branca, 152
Brandenburg, 164
Branly's coherer, 305
Brewster, 186, 244
Britain, 91, 92
Brugnatelli, 182
Buddhism, 39, 263
Bullock, 274
Bunsen, 266
Burden, 218
Burleigh, 275
C
Cable-car, 265
Cæsar, 7, 85 to 95, 279
Calculating machine, 201
Carbide of calcium, 273
Carbolic acid, 218
Carbon telephone-transmitter, 292
Carborundum, 312
Carré, 269
Carthage, 83, 84, 85
Cartwright, 175
Cash-carrier, 286
Cash-register, 286
Catapult, 44
Cathode rays, 292
Caus, 151
Cavallo, 175
Cavendish, 170, 171, 175
Cawley, 153
Celluloid, 284
Cerebro-spinal meningitis antitoxin, 328
Channing, 246
Charlotte Dundas, 180
Chemistry, 208
Chloral hydrate, 217
Chloroform, 215
Christian Science, 277
Christianity, 50, 263
Chrome process of tanning, 302
Cigarette machine, 291
Circulation of blood, 140
Civil War in America, 269 et seq
Clay tablets, 24
Clerk Maxwell, 284, 285
Clermont, 180
Clock, 162
Coal-gas, 184
Cocaine, 248
Coins, 48
Color photography, 327
Colt, 219
Columbus, 125 et seq
Compressed-air rock drill, 275, 284
Confucianism, 39
Congress of Vienna, 260
Congress, U. S. S., 270, 271, 272
Constant battery, 219
Constantinople, 96, 97, 113
Constitution of the United States, 263
Cooke, 220
Copenhagen, 192
Copernicus, 132, 133, 134
Corliss cut-off, 244
Cornwallis, 174, 175
Cortez, 128, 129
Corvus, 84, 85
Cowles, 302
Craske, 269
Crawford, 220
Cretans, 48
Crœsus, 48
Crookes, 292
Cumberland, U. S. S., 270, 271, 272
Cuneiform writing, 28
Curie, 314
Curtiss, Glenn, 327
Curved stereoplates, 269
Customs union, 261
Cyanide process, 303
Cyrus, 39
D
Dædalus, 57
Daguerre, 181, 182
Dalton, 210, 211
Daniell, 219
Daniels, 328, 330
Darius, 59
Davy, 181, 182, 183
Davy, Edmund, 219
De Chardonnet, 304
De Grasse, 174, 175
De Lesseps, 237
Decimal system, 32
Deisel Engine, 291
Della Porta, 151
Dennison, 242
Depth bomb, 339
Dewar, 201
Dias, Bartholomew, 125
Diet at Spires, 131
Diet at Worms, 131
Disc for polishing, 43
Divine Right of kings, 146, 147
Dodge, 274
Domestication of brutes, 13
Drager, 327
Draper, 221
Drebel, 142
Dry-plate photography, 265
Duodecimal system, 31, 32
Duplex telegraph, 285
Dynamics, 159
Dynamite, 277
Dynamo electric machine, 275
E
East India Company, 257
Eastman, 304
Eberth, 295
Eddy, 277
Edison, 123, 292, 310, 328, 285
Egyptian religion, 38
Electric light, 149 Telegraph, 215 Cautery, 239 Locomotive, 245 Candle, 290 Railway, first, 293 Welding, 302 Furnace, 312 Motor, 217, 218
Electrically propelled boat, 221
Electricity, 148 et seq
Electromagnetic theory of light, 284
Electron, 293
Electroplating, 182
Electrostatic induction, 247
Elevator, 272
Embalming, 35
Ericsson, 10, 68, 214, 220, 270, 271, 272
Ether as an anæsthetic, 221
F
Fahrenheit, 142
Faraday, 138, 199, 214, 247
Farmer, 246
Faure storage battery, 294
Feudal system, 145, 146
Field, Cyrus, 266
Finlay, 327
Finsen, 313
Fire alarm telegraph, 247
Fire, 5
First American locomotive, 217
First electric telegraph, 232
First successful aeroplane flight, 326
Fiske, 312, 326, 328
Fitch, 180
Flexner, 328, 329
Flute, 49
Flying boat, 327
Foucault, 235
Fox, Talbot, 247
Foy, 294
Franklin, 168, 169, 170, 256
Frederick the Great, 166 et seq
Frederick William, 165, 166, 279
French Revolution, 260
Friction matches, 213
Fulton, 180
G
Galileo, 135, 136
Galvani, 138, 200
Galvanization, 220
Galvanometer, 200
Gardner, 265
Gas engine, 291
Gas mantle, 302
Gatling gun, 273
Gaul, 86 to 95
Gaza, 73
Ged, 164
Geometry, 37
German Confederation, 261
Giffard, 265
Gilbert, 137, 138
Gimlet, 57
Goldschmidt, 327
Goodyear, 220, 284
Gorham, 286
Gorrie, 245
Gramme, 283
Graphophone, 302
Gravitation, Law of, 144
Great Eastern, 266
Greece, 45
Greek fire, 96, 97
Green, 269
Greener's hammerless gun, 294
Groves gas battery, 267
Guericke, 142, 143, 148, 149, 216
Gun carriage, 108
Gun-cotton, 240
Gun director system, 312
Gun, 101 to 110
Gunpowder, 39
Guthrie, 215
Guttenberg, 7, 111
Gyroscopic compass, 326
Gyroscopic stabilizer, 327
H
Hadley, 145
Hales, 184
Hall, 308
Hammurabi, 38
Hanaman, 327
Hand photographic camera, 298
Hannibal, 84, 85
Hargreaves, 172
Harvey, 140, 141
Harveyized armor, 304
Heat, a measure of work, 212
Hebrews, 45
Hellenistic civilization, 76, 77
Helmholtz, 246
Henry, 214, 216, 252
Herman, 247
Hero, 149, 150, 151
Hertz, 304, 305
Hewitt, 326
Hibbert, 244
High speed printing press, 327
Hoe, 235, 242
Holy Alliance, 260
Homer, 205
Hooke, 145, 162
Horseshoe machine, 218
Howe, 236
Huygens, 162
Hyatt, 284
Hydraulic dredge, 302
Hydraulic jack, 176
I
Ice machine, 245, 287
Illuminating water-gas, 286
Image making, 117, 118
Incandescent lamp, 292
Induced currents, 214
Induction transmitter, 293
Ingersoll, 284
Internal combustion engine, 291
Interrupted thread screw, 242
Invasion of England, 193, 194
Ironclads, 248
J
Jablochkoff, 290
Jacobi, 218, 221
James, 217
Janney, 285
Jansen, 135
Jewish religion, 45, 46
Joly, 327
Judaism, 263
K
Kaleidoscope, 186, 187
Kepler, 134
Kinetograph and kinetoscope, 310, 328
Kingsland, 265
Kirchoff, 266
Knitting machine, 184
Koch, 295, 298
Kodak camera, 304
König, 186
Königgratz, 280
Krag-Jorgensen rifle, 309
Krupp, 243
Kuno, 298
L
La Gloire, 265
Laennec, 197
Laplace, 209
Laughing gas, 234
Lavoisier, 171, 172, 208, 211
Laws of electrolysis, 247
Laws of electromagnetic induction, 247
Laws of electrostatic induction, 247
League of Armed Neutrality, 192
Lee magazine rifle, 294
Leges Juliæ, 85
Legion, 83
Leibig, 215, 217
Leupold, 153
Leyden jar, 168, 169
Liberal government, 255 et seq
Light, 235
Linde, 312
Link motion, 217
Linotype machine, 301
Lippman, 327
Liquefaction of air, 312
Liquefaction of gases, 201
Lister, 274
Lithography, 177
Locomotive, 185
Loeffler, 298
Long, 221
Loom, positive motion weaving, 284
Lowe, 286
Lumière, 327
Lundstrom, 247
Luther, 130 et seq
Lyall, 284
M
Machine for making barbed-wire, 286
Mack, 194
Maddox, 284
Magazine gun, 243
Magellan, 128
Magneto electric machine, 216, 217
Malleable iron castings, 184
Marathon, 59, 60
Marble, 302
Marconi, 306, 313
Martel, Charles, 110
Martin's steel process, 274
Match-making machine, 242
Matteson, 302
Maxim, 327
McCormick Reaper, 218
McMahon, 281
Melhuish, 247
Merchant adventurers, 257
Mercury-vapor light, 326
Mergenthaler, 301, 308
Merkle, 177
Merrimac, C. S. S., 68, 270, 271, 272
Metternich, 261, 262
Michoux, 265
Middlings purifier, 287
Militarism, 282
Military machine, 279 et seq
Miller, 180
Miltiades, 59, 60
Milton, 205
Miners' safety lamp, 183, 184
Mohammedanism, 263
Moltke, 279
Moncrief's disappearing gun-carriage, 276
Monitor, 68, 270, 271, 272
Monroe Doctrine, 256
Montgolfier, 175
Morse, 215, 232, 233, 234
Morton, 215
Motion, Laws of, 144
Multiphase currents, 303
Mungo Ponton, 221
Murdock, 184
Muschenbroek, 168
Musical telephone, 267
Muybridge, 310
Mythology, 53
N
Napier, 136, 137
Napoleon, 187 et seq, 257
Nasmyth, 221
Needle telegraph, 220
Nege, 277
Neilson, 213
Nelson, 190, 192, 194, 197
Newcomer, 153
Newton, Isaac, 143, 144, 145
Nicholson, 186
Nickel steel, 308
Nicolaier, 298
Niepce, 181
Nineveh, 39
Nitroglycerin, 241
Nobel, 277
O
Oersted, 198, 199, 200
Ohm, 213
Oleomargarine, 277
Omphalopsychites, 345
Open-hearth process for steel-making, 274
Ophthalmoscope, 245
Otis, 272
Otto, 291
P
Pacinnotti, 217, 283
Page, 245
Painting, 56
Paper, 101
Papin, 153
Papyrus, 25, 33
Parson's steam turbine, 309
Pasteur, 298
Patent office, 111
Paul, 172
Peloponnesian War, 63, 66
Pericles, 62
Perkins, 265
Perry, 315
Persian Gates, 74
Phalanx, 68, 69
Philip of Macedon, 66, 67
Phœnicians, 45
Phœnix, 181
Phonetic writing, 27
Phonograph, 291
Photographic roll films, 247
Photography, 181, 221
Photometer, 212
Pictet, 287
Picture-writing, 27
Pitt, 261, 262
Pixii, 216
Pizarro, 129
Planté, 266
Platinotype process, 285
Plotz, 329
Pneumatic caissons, 221
Pneumatic tire, 235
Pneumonia bacillus, 295
Poetry, 62
Portable fire engine, 214
Portland cement, 291
Porus, 75
Potassium, 182
Power-loom, 175
Prehistoric inventor, 23
Prescott, 302
Priestley, 171
Primeval weapons, 1 to 20
Princeton, U. S. S., 220
Principia, 143
Printing press, 186
Printing telegraph, 237
Printing, 110 to 115
Pulmotor, 327
Pump, 243
Punic Wars, 84, 85
Pyramids, 35, 36
Q
Quadruplex telegraphy, 285
R
Radio activity, 314
Radio control of moving vessels, 326
Radium, 314
Ramsay, 180
Rear driven chain for bicycles, 302
Reece, 298
Regenerative furnace, 265
Reis, 267
Renaissance, 112
Revolver, 219
Rock drill, 247
Rocket, 185
Röntgen, 293, 312
Rubicon, 94
Ruhmkorff coil, 246, 293
Ruin of the machine of civilization, 226–230
Rumford, 212
Runge, 218
Russian campaign, 196, 197
S
Sadowa, 280
Safety matches, 247
Sailing vessels, 47
Salamis, 61
Santos Dumont, 326
Sargon, 41
Savage, 241
Savannah, first ocean steamship, 202
Savery, 152, 153
Schmid, 298
Schneider, 308
Schonbein, 240
Schultz, 302
Schultze, 273
Schweigg, 200
Scott Archer, 245
Screw propeller, 220
Sculpture, 62
Secondary battery, 266
Seebeck, 200
Self-binding reaper, 286
Self-induction, 215
Selligne, 221
Senefelder, 177
Sennacherib, 41
Sewing-machine, 236
Sextant, 145
Seymour, 245
Seytre, 221
Shakespeare, 205
Shell ejector, 274
Shintoism, 263
Shoemaking machine, 269
Sholes, 276
Siemens, 216, 265, 275, 294
Silencer for fire arms, 327
Sleeping-car, 265
Smeaton, 153
Smith and Wesson revolver, 247
Smokeless gunpowder, 273
Sobrero, 241
Sodium, 182
Soubeiran, 215
Sparta, 62
Spectroscope, 266
Sperry, 326
Spinning machine, 172
Sprague electric railway and motor, 303
St. Vincent, 190
Statuary, 56
Steam engine, 150 et seq
Steam hammer, 221
Steam plough, 294
Steam presser gauge, 244
Steam saw-mill, 291
Steam whistle, 218
Steel pen, 184
Stephenson, 185, 218
Stereoscope, 244
Stereotyping, 164
Sternberg, 295
Stethoscope, 197, 246
Stevens, 181
Sturgeon, 217
Suez Canal, 237
Sulphite process, 276
Syphon, 286
Syria, 45
T
Tainter, 302
Talbot, 221
Talleyrand, 261, 262
Taoism, 39, 263
Taupenot, 265
Telephone, 287
Telescope sight for ships' guns, 312
Telescope, 135, 136
Tesla, 303
Themistocles, 61
Thermit welding, 327
Thermometer, 142
Thermopile, 200, 201
Thermos bottle, 201
Thompson, Elihu, 302
Thomson, Benjamin, 212
Thomson, Sir William, 286
Thorium, 314
Threshing-machine, 177
Thurber, 231
Tilghman, 276
Time-lock, 241
Torpedoplane, 328
Torricelli, 142
Toulon, 177
Trafalgar, 195
Triger, 221
Tubular boiler, 214
Tungsten electric light, 327
Turtle for printing presses, 245
Twine-binder, 286
Typewriter, 231, 276
Typhoid bacillus, 295
Tyre, 72, 73
Tyrian Dyes, 48
U
Ulm, 194
Uranium, 314
Use of collodion in photography, 245
Uxian pass, 74
V
Van Depoele, 302
Vasco da Gama, 128
Veneti, 90
Vercingetorix, 93, 94
Vieille, 273
Villeneuve, 193, 194
Visibility of objects, 116, 117
Volta, 138, 170, 171
Voltaic arc, 182, 183
Vulcanizing rubber, 220
W
Walker, 213
Walkers, 304
War-chariot, 42
Washington, 173 et seq
Watch, 162
Watch-making machine, 245
Water-gas, 221
Watt, 154 et seq
Webb-feeding printing press, 274
Wedgwood, 181
Wegmann, 286
Wells, 234
Welsbach, 302
Westinghouse, 278, 285
Wheatstone bridge, 285
Wheatstone, 220
Wheel, 42, 43
Whitehead torpedo, 275
Whitney, 177
Wilde, 275
Willis, 285
Wireless telegraph, 305, 306
Wöhler, 213
Wood pulp, 247
Wood, Henry A. Wise, 318, 327
Woodruff, 265
Worm, 245
Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 326
X
X-Rays, 293, 312, 313
Xerxes, 60
Z
Zankerode, 293