INDEX.

Abel, Professor, 275, 278 Althorp, Lord, 268 Anderson, 246 Archimedes, 18, 20 Bacon, Roger, 37 Barlow, Joel, 179 Baxter House, 277 Beccaria, 114 Bell, I. L., 280 Benvenuto Cellini, 58 Bernard Palissy, 82 Berthier, 281 Berzelius, 281 Bessemer, Andrew, 262 Bessemer, Sir Henry, 259 Bessemer and Catherwood, 263 Black, Dr., 165 Blue Hills, Mass., 284 Bossuet, 183 Boulton, Matthew, 171, 181 Bourbon, Constable, 63 Braithwaite and Ericsson, 212 Brandreth, 212 Bridgewater Foundry, 249, 255 Brunel, Isambert, 178 Bungy, Friar, 41 Burstall, 212, 216 Carriage, Sailing, 141 Car of Neptune, 189 Caslon, Henry, 263 Cellini, Benvenuto, 58 Chaise, One-wheeled, 144 Charles IX. of France, 96 Cheltenham, 281 Church, Benjamin, 174 Circle, The Square of, 22 Clement VII., 62 Condensation, 159 Conductors of Electricity, 105 Constable Bourbon, shot, 63 Coolidge, O. B., 292 Court of Chancery, N. Y., 189 Dalibard, 108 Darwin, Dr., 135 Dawson, President, 286 De Foe, Daniel, 99 Devonport, 252 Didot, Finnin, 263 Dixon, John, 205 Droz, François Xavier Joseph, 102 Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, 119 Edison's Laboratory, 51 Electricity, 103 Elkingtons, 263 Engines, Early Steam, 149 Euclid, 20 Evans, Oliver, 175 Experiment, The Great, 111 Field, Joshua, 249 Fitch, John, 177, 190 "Firework," The, 155 Francis I., 71 Franklin, Benjamin, 97, 177, 237 Fulton, Robert, 173 Gig, One-wheeled, 145 Glasses, Musical, 115-117 Gold Paint, 270 Goodyear, Charles, 285 Greene, Mrs. General, 227, 229 Grüner, 279 Gun Factories, 275 Hackworth, Timothy, 212 Hammerfield, 257 Harmonica, 113 Hart's Recollections, 161 Hartop, Annie (Mrs. Bessemer), 250 Helton Railway, 203 Hiero, 21 Hitchin, 264 Hooke, Dr. Robert, 137 Hulls, Jonathan, 176 Jack the Darter, 142 Jay, John, 220 Jefferson, Thomas, 233 Jouffroy, Marquis de, 176 Karsten, 281 Keramics, 82 Killingworth Colliery, 195 Latent Heat, 157 Lightning, 107 Livingston, Chancellor, 178 Mackintosh, James, 173 Maclaughlan, Robert, 246 Manchester, 249 Marcellus attacks Syracuse, 26 Massachusetts, Derivation of Name, 284 Maudsley, Henry, 247 Middleton Colliery Railway, 203 Miller, Phineas, 231 Minie, Commander, 273 Musical Glasses, 115 Napoleon I., 175 Napoleon III., 274 Nasmyth, James, 238 Newcomen Engine, 150, 167, 169 Nuremburg, 271 Palissy the Potter, 82 Papin, Denis, 176 Patricroft, 256 Périer, 176 Persley, Sir Charles, 266 Plombières, 180 Pope Clement VII., 62 Potter, Humphrey, 152 Practical Magazine, 282 Quincy, 194 Rastrick and Walker, 217 Ravensworth, Lord, 195 Renard and Krebs, 174 Resolution Book, 101 Rinman, 281 Robespierre, Max, 261 Robison, 154, 165 Roebuck, Dr., 171 Roger Bacon, 37 Roosevelt, Nicholas, 178 Royal Academy, 265 Royal Gun Factories, 275 Rumsey, James, 177 St. Pancras, 274 St. Petersburg, 192, 253 Savery, 176 Scottish Society of Arts, 246 Sharp Conductors, 105 Somerset House, 265 Sounds and Signals, 139 Stanhope, Earl, 179 Stamp Office, English, 266 Steam-Engines, Early, 149 Stephenson, George, 193 Stephenson, Robert, 208 Stevens, John, 178 Stevens, Robert L., 192 Sweden, 254 Symington, 180, 182 Syracuse, Siege of, 25 Telegraph, Edgeworth's, 124 Telegraph, English, 133 Telegraph, Irish, 127 Telegraph, Home, 139 Telegraphs, 125, 126 Tellograph, 137 Thirteen Virtues, 100 Travelling Engine, 195 Ugolini, Giorgio, 65 Virgil, 53 Walker and Rastrick, 217 Walking-machine, 140 Watt, James, 146 Whistler, Major G. W., 254 Whitney, Eli, 219 Wilmot, Col. Eardley, 275 Wood, Nicholas, 213 Woolwich Arsenal, 275 Wylam and Killingworth Railway, 203 Zonara, 32