INDEX.

Page

Warming and lighting 1223

■ -apartments in

Paris - - 132

- ■ by air - - 1227

-by hot water - 1225

■ -by steam - 1227

- new prison - 615

-, Persian method 132

•-, Roman method 131

Water 165, 166. 552. 635

-, bodies plunged

in - - 1153

-circular and

vertical - 1110—, closets intro-duced - - 549

—, conducting - 166

-, cost of raising 1213

-, engines for

raising - 1179

-filters 550, 551, 552

-gauges - - 533

-, machines for

raising - 1201

-, measurement

through tubes 1126

-, method of find*

ing - - 165

-, motion of, in

pipes - - 1139

-, motion of, in

rivers - - 1141

- on inclined sur-faces - - 1107

pipes, wooden - 549

-, quantity dis-charged byrivers - - 642

-screw - - 203

-, supply of297,298,299

-, towns supplied 544.

1210

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Water, vertical action

of - - 1099

-, waste through

orifices - 1128

— ■ wheels - - 1142

— . — works estab-

lished for sup-ply of London 548.

550.

-works at Lon­ don Bridge - 442.

545.

Watt’s experiments

on canals - - 1142

Waves in a storm,force of 229

Weardale mines - 660

Weather tiles - - 711

Wedge, use of - 925

Wedging in carpen-try 1304

-, fox-tail - - 1306

Weights, tables of - 914

-, raising of 928. 999

Weirs, discharge ofwater - - - 1140

Wells Cathedral - 1604

Wells, Artesian 1059, 1060

— sunk by Romans 167

—— at Sheerness - 318

— for supply of

water - - 553

Wenlock formation - 632

Westminster Abbey - 1608Wharf cranes - - 1005

Wharfing of boards - 323

Wheel and axle - 938

Wheels, construc-tion of- 944, 945

-, breast water- - 1153

-, bucket water- - 1198

-, drum water- - 1196

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Wheels, fly - - ]268

-, overshot - - 1148

-, Persian - - 1196

-, scoop - - 1196

-, tide - - 1151

-, undershot - 1142

Wheel, sun and planet 1266- machines for

cutting teeth

1039

-, velocity of

1148

Wheelwork

1566

■ rotating round

two parallel

axes

939

Whistle, steam

1279

White’s pulley -

933

White lead

104

Winchester Cathedral

1621

Windlass used by

Romans

201

Willow, wood of 101.

1288

Winstanley, Henry -

368

Wind produced by a

fall of water -

1151

Windmills - 956

, 957

-, horizontal ’ -

956

— sails, effects of,

1221

Wipers applied to

wheels-

979

Workmen’s tools,

their power -

927

Xerxes ’ bridge of

boats - • -

66

Zanotti, Eustachio -

206

Zendrini, Bernardo -

208

Zinc -

669

Zones -

760

Zuliani, Pietro

206

Zureda’s machine

962

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