578

INDEX.

Glauber, device of his, 440. Safety valvesused by him, 451. Wooden boilers, 470Glue, ancient, 87,

Gnat, the, a boat builder, 258Goats employed intread wheels, 152. Battlesbetween, 366

Goblets for imwelcome guests, 521. Magical,520

Gold-beating, 87

Golden legend, extract from, 313, 314Goose-neck joint, 307, 322, 327, 573. Substi-tute for, 324—326Gosset’s frictionless pump, 208Goths employed bears in tread wheels, 74Gravity, Suspension of objects against, 142Greece , wells in, 27, 36. Antiquities foundin them, 50. Water raised from them bythe swape, 96Greeks, 26S

Green-houses heated by steam, 471Guage cocks, 450Guage, mercurial, 451Guerricke, Otto, 181,190, 426Gulf stream, 477, 478

Guns, repeating, 430. Air, 181, 192, 270,379,573. Steam, 395, 423, 573Gunpowder, 143, 383. Known to Roger Bacon , 403. Engines moved by, 441,4o0,

Gutters, for raising water, 88, 91,92. Spoutsof, ornamented, 119

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Hair, coloring it practised of old, 120. Bere-nice^ hair, 143. Pulling up trees by one ofSampson’s hairs, 418Hamath, water-works at, 115, 116Hammer, its origin and history, 5, 6Hand, used as a cup, 11, 40, 52. Artificialhand,4

Haskin’s quicksilver pump, 274, 275Hautefille, 441Heart, the, a pump, 258Hegisostratus, wooden foot of, 4Helepoles, 304

Heliopolis, fountain at, 43, 49Heliogabalus , 177,563Heraldic devices, 261, 314, 396Herculaneum , wells at, 28, 29,55. Fountainsat, 534

Hereward, the Saxon, 36Herodotus , quoted, 4, 11,12, 20, 22, 27, 58,79, 80,81,84, 96, 133, 241,260Heroes, old mechanics the true, 5Heron, 65. His fountain, 361. Air-machines,378. Account of his Spiritalia, 385, 386.Eolipiles from, 394Hieroglyphics, American, 164Hindoos, their mode of drinking, 11. Wells ,30, 33, 35, 38, 52. Carrying water, S4.Picotah, 97. Swinging basket, 85. Jantu,89,90. Syringes, 260, 261. Water-clocks,544

Hire La, his double acting pump, 271Holy water, derived from the heathen, 366,196, 386. Ancient vase for selling it, 387.Used in conseerating bells, 313, 314, andvarious other articles, 196Homer, quoted, 19, 21,22,33,233/240,250,536. Kent a school at Scio, 131Honors, titles of, absurd origin ofsome, 144,145, 445, 446Hookah,270Hooke, Dr. 441Horn of abundance, 119,120Horn, drinking, saying respecting it, expiain-ed, 205

Hour-glasses, 545, 547Hose pipes, 304, 326—328,345House warming, 37Hudibras,265

Hurricanes, commence at the leeward, 4SIHuyghens, 441Hydraulic beit, 137Hydraulic ram, 367—372Hydraulic machines, ancient, 7, 10, 81, 131,132—135, 267. Used as first movers of ma-chinery, 128, 140, 158Hydrostatie press, 276

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Idols, 82,106—108. Eolipilic, 398,399,570—

Impostures, 23, 106—108, 376—378. Seejuggling\

Imprisoning chairs, 429, 573IncasofPeru. Aqueducts erected bv them,165—16S

Incendiaries, 308, 350. Punishmept of, 351India ink, 70

Indians, American, 50,107, ISOInertia, 373, 503Intermitting springs, 506Inventions, how realized, 359. Few record-ed, 416. Cause of this, 427. Advantagesof recording them, 453. Century of, 64,140, 362, 428—438

Inventars, old, concealed their discoveries,and why, 427. Caricatured, 439lodine, discovery of, 414Iron cauldrons soldered, 20. Ixon statues,142. Planing iron, 283Iron first cast in England, 553Irrigation, 28, 79, 80, 83, 84, 95, 118, 119,126, 131, 132, 163. Aquarius, an emblemof, 119 '

Italian mode of raising water to upper floors,63. Fountains, 534, 537

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.Tack, old name of a man-servant, 75. Smoke-jack, ibid.

Jack of Hilton, a Saxon eolipile, 398Jacks of the clock, 543Jaeob’s well, 38, 42 , 44Jaculator fish, 257Jantu, 89. Alluded to by Moses , 90Japanese water-works, 125, 557. Cloeks, 543Jen.oah.az, portrait of at Thebes , 116Jets d’eau, 163, 532—541Jeweled holes for pivots of watches, 122,547Jews , their wells, 25, 33, 34. Watering land,86. Their arts, 133

Joseph’s well, 38, 45—47. Divining cup, 200Josephus , quoted, 38, 40, 54Juggling, jugglers, magieians, &c. 23, 106—108, 198—201,376—385,519, 521—523Juvenal , quoted, 19,43, 121, 310, 311, 312,377. Banished, 48

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Kircher, on the speaking statue of Memnon ,377. Bellows-pump from, 243. Turned aspit by an eolipile, 396. His mode ofraising water by steam, 422Kitchens, 75. Egyptian, 237,238, 517Kites, boys J , 422

Knives of gold and edged with iron, 5. Portable knives, 205Koran, quoted, 10, 54, 117

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Laban’s images, 571Ladders, portable, 350, 431