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INDEX.

Bel and the Dragon , 519Bellona, 308

Beils used as fire-engines, 313,314. Bellmen ,315

Bellows , 87,90, 177, 180, 232—243,261,268,483. Origin of the word, 570. Vulcan’s233, 240, 268, 568. African, 235, 246,252.Asiatic, 236. Egyptian, 237,238. Mada-gascar, 246,252. Lantern, 240,241. Rotary,252,255

-piston, 244—252. Philosophical,

396, 397, 569, 570

-pumps, 205, 210, 235, 241, 243,568

Belt, hydraulic, 137Belzom, 124Berenice’s hair, 143

Besson’s Theatre, quoted, 69, 114, 126, 152,218,280,317, 410Bethlehem, well at, 48Bible quoted or illustrated, 2, 10, 11, 19, 22,24, 26,30,31,33, 35, 38,40,44,51,52,84,87,90,95, 117, 132, 195,292, 283, 291, 303, 366,391, 393, 400, 476, 517, 536, 560, 565, 571Birmah, raising water in, 73Blacksmiths , Adam one, 12. Vulcan, 240.

Grecian, 241. See preface.

Blakey, 462

Blood, circulation of, 132,257Blow-pipes, 19, 234, 569. Eolipilic, 569Blöwing tubes, Ewbank’s, 4S4—496

-siphons, Ewbank’s, 527, 528

Boa Constrictor, 180

Boats, steam and others, 258, 403, 419, 423,438

Boilers, ofwood and of granite, 470. Heatedby the sun, 471

-ancient, 392, 393,522. Of coiled tubes,

394

Branca, 418

Buckets, 32,52, 54, 63, 73, 83, 167, 171, 302,314, 315,340,341. War caused by one, 67,Ancient metallic ones, 230Bücket erigines, 64—66, 128. Ancient, 573Burckhardt at Petra, 42. At Hamath , 116

C

Calabash, 14,16Cambyses , 377

Camera Obscura, 379, 403, 430Candles, time measured by, 350Canne hydraulique, 372, 373Canopus, origin of these vessels, 23Capillary attraction, 510, 513Cardan, 396, 407, 410Carpenter’s toolsand work, 87Carthagenian wells, 27, 38Cast iron, 268, 553Cato the Censor , 536

Caüldrons, 19—21, 120, 162, 171, 237, 238,391,394

Caus. See Decaus.

Cawley/464, 468Cecil’s motive engine, 473Cement, 58

Centrifugal pumps, 229, 230, 290,291Chains, golcfen, 162. Watch, 323Chain of pots machine, 122—132Chain-pumps, 148—158, 567. In ships, 154—157, 567

Chain and sector, 467Chairs, imprisoning, 29, 573. Cane, 323Chemists’ siphons, 526Chemnitz pressure engine, 362Child’s rattle, inventor of, 268Chili, aqueducts in, 165Chimneys, increasing the draft of, 395, 482,483, 48$

Chinese tinker, 20,248. Juggler, 199. Wells ,28,30,35, 83. Proverbs, 30, 31. Printing,Windlass, &c. 69, 70. Irrigation, 82, 83,86. Noria , 112. Chain-pump, 150. Ships,158. Bellows , 248. Digesters, 393. Clocks,545

Chisels of gold, and faced with iron, 5

Chuck, eccentric, 285

Churches, fountainsin, recommended, 540

Circulation of the blood, 132, 257

Cistems,4S, 58, 169, 170, 557

Cistern pole, 57

Cleanthes , 56

Clepsydrse, 95, 542—7

Clocks and watches, 122,- 285, 323. Substi-tutes for, 350Clysters , 260

Coach with portable kitchen, 445Coal-pits, raising water from, by fire, 419Cooks, of gold, silver, &c. 170 , 559 , 560.Three and four way, 354, 355, 421, 433,449,462,523. Ancient, 394, 557, 559. Guage,459. Siphon, 527. Sliding, 561Coffins of iron and lead, 551Cog-wheels, 71, 72, 114, 121. Engine forcutting teeth, 323Cohesion of liquids, 513, 515Coining, Roman mode of, 6Combs, 87. See preface.

Condensation of steam by injection discöveredby chance, 466Conon , 143

Constantinople , water-works at, 43, 553. An-cient baths at, 552. Fire-engines at, 316Constellations, 143Cooking by steam, 471Cord and bücket for raising' water, 53—56Cornucopm, 119, 120Cortez, 159—163Coryatt, 78Cotton gin, 359Coupling screws, 326, 459Couvre feu, 350

Crassus, bad practice of his, 311Crates, saying of his about war, 309Creusa, 383

Crucibles, Egyptian, 87, 234Crusaders, 32, 372Cupelo furnaces, 397Cupping, 202, 203Curtew bell, 350

Ctesibius , 121, 122, 192,213 , 259 , 266—270,547

D

Dsedalus, inventions ascribed to him, 268Damasking linen, 323Danaus, carried pumps to Greece , 130Darius, anecdote of, 22Decaus, 319, 380, 410—13, 529, 533Delphic oracle, 241, 392Democritus , saying of his, 57Demons, superstitions respecting, 313,482,521Demosthenes , his father a cutler, 6De Moura’s steam-engine, 463Dentatus, anecdote of, 19Desaguliers , his bucket-ehgines, 63, 66. Re-marks on Savery,460. Steam-engine, 461Dials, 542

Digesters, 392, 393, 446, 447Discoveries in the arts, way to make, 359Diogenes , buried heels up, 36DistafF and spindle, 283Distilling, 381, 393, 407Divination, by water, 34, 36. Withcups, 200,201. With fire, 383,571. Steam, 392, 399Diving ships and apparatus, 430, 431Dogs in tread wheels, 74, 75