INDEX.
581
Setieca, quoted, 26,310,394, 558Serviere, nis inventions, 63, 91,285, 429Shadoof, Egyptian, 94, 95Shakespeare , quoted, or illustrated, 195, 350,401, 534, 535
Sheet-lead and other metals, 551Ships, steam, of Garay, 403. Of Ramseye,419. Ventilation of, 488Ship-building, ancient, 146, 147. Chinese , 158Ship pumps, 143,147,154—157,214—217,227.567
Shoes, ancient, 50. Motezuma’s, 161Shrine of Becket, 106Siamese water-clocks, 544Sieve, Tutia carrying water in one, 198. Thetrick explained, ibid.
Silk, watering of, 323
Silverpipes, cocks and cisterns, 170,557, 560Siphons, 192, 193, 212, 268, 514—532. Ca-pillary,513. Natural, 506. Ram,53l. Actin vacuo, 515. Other devices so named,212,213, 304, 307, 311, 315Smoke jacks, 75Smoking tobacco, 270, 454, 477Soap-making, raising ley by steam, 413, 414.Great sums expended on soap, ibid. Soapfactory in Pompeii , ibid.
Soldering, 551. Cast iron, 20. Phenomenonattending, 512Solomon, cisterns of, 48Souffleur , 504
Spaniards, their conquest of America , 159Spanish pump-maker, anecdote of, 224. Spa-nish steam-ship, 403—406. Chain of pots,126. Beils, 314
Speaking tubes, 106, 107. Trumpets, 273,342. Heads, 106, 108, 377Spectacles, 70Speculums, 121Sphinx, 119, 437Spindle, spinning, &c. 283, 284Spiral pump, 363
Spiritalia, a work written by Heron , 270,306,312, 376, 3S6, 415, 518—520Spouting tubes, 497—504Sprinkling vessels, atmospheric, 194—196,567Spurting snake, 257
Statues, 43. Iron one of Arsinoe , 142. OfMemnon , 377, 401. Leaden, 535, 550Steam, its effects, 359, 388—391. Its me-chanical properties, 391, 392, 407. 409.Supposed identity with air, 395—400, 418—421, 572
Steam-boats, 403, 419, 423, 424, 438Steam-boilers of coiled tubes, 394. Of woodand granite, 470
Steam-engines, 284, 359, 425. Heron ’s, 394.Garay’s, 404. Branca’s, 418. Classificationof, 425. Worcester ’s, 437. Moreland’s,442—444. Papin’s, 450—452. Savery’s,455—460. Other engines, 462—464. New*comeri’s, 465. Leopold’s, 469. Made self-acting by a boy, 251, 470Steam-guns, 395, 573Steam-idols, 395, 398, 399, 570—572Steam-machinists, courtiers, 445Stings of bees, 257Etomachpump, 264Stoves, Chinese , 70. Fire-places, 483Strabo ’s account of Memnon , 377Stuyvesant, Peter, proclamations by him,339, 340
Suckers,boys ? , 181. Natural, 182,183,184,185Sucking tubes, 203,204. Suckiagwounds,202Suction, 201, 202Sugar boiling in vacuo, 495
Sulphur baths, ancient, 120
Sun, raising water by the heal of, 378—380.
Distilling by, 381. Raising steam by, 470Surgical Instruments, found at Pompeii , 282Swape, 94—103Syene , well at, 48
Syracuse , dial at, 542. The name of Archi-medes’ ship, 146
Syringe, 259—261. An emblematic device,261. Used as fire-engines, 312, 315—317
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Tanks, water, 83
Tantalus , city of, 98. Cups, 520
Tartar necromancy, 522
Tenures, 398
Teraphim, 571, 572
Tezcuco, 161. Supplied with water, 163Theatres, fountains in, recommended, 540Thebes , a wonder at, 81Themistocles , 43Theodorus, of Samos, 5Thirst, modes of quenching, 11. Sufferingsfrom, 31, 32
Tinkers, Chinese , 20, 248Tlascala, 159. Its water-works, 160Tobacco smoking, 270, 454, 477. Engine forcutting, 323
Toledo, old water*works at, 294Toltecs , 160
Tools, 5, 87, 132, 172, 268Toothed wheels, 71. 72, 114,121Tornados, 482Torricelli , 187, 188
Tourne-broche, 75, 76, 565. Eolipilic, 396,398, 429
Towers, war, 304Toys, 87,268
Traditions of the Mahomedans and Scy-thians, 12. Arabs , 95. Peruvians, 167Trajan, his directions respecting fires, 309Traps for drains, 562, 563Tread-wheels, 73, 74, 76, 116,117, 152Treasury note, copy of an old one, 300Trees of Australia , 509. Of silver, brass, &c.538
Trevithick’s pump, 280Tricks. See Juggling.
Triton, musical, of silver, 534Trombe, or shower beilows, 476Troy, fountains at, 49
Trumpets, speaking, 273, 342. Ear, 379,573Tubal Cain , his beilows, 232. See Vulcan.Turkish fountains, 31. Fire-engines, 316Tutia, carrying water in a sieve, 198, 386Tympanum for raising water, 110, 114Tyre, a well at, 38. Glass mirrors madeat.121
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Union joints, 326, 459
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Vacuum, B. Porta on, 379. Produced bysteam, 407, 489. In open tubes, 482—496Boiling sugar in, 495Valentinian , anecdote of, 196Valves, 232, 235,268, 307, 555, 556. Safety,3S7, 391, 447, 451Vapor engines, 441,472, 473Vases, ancient, 16,17. For iustral water, 387Vauxhall, engines at, 434. Gardens, 445Vegetius , old translation of. 177, 207, 217,430, 522Veneering, 87
Ventilation of mines, ships, &c. 488Venturi, experiments by, 478—480