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MEMOIR OF DANIEL TRE.U3WELL. 



INDEX. 



Amoskeag Miixs, declines charfre of, 395. 

 Andrew, Gov. John A., letter to Secretary of 



War, 477. 

 Arago, personal appearance, 4-34. 

 Armstrong, Sir William, adopted Treadwell's 



methods, 446. 



Babbage's calculating machine, 383, 385. 

 Bacon, Lord, 460. 

 Balch, Capt. Geo. F., 485. 

 Blakely, Capt. T. A., 458. 

 Boston, low state "f mechanic arts in, 344. 

 Boston .Mechanics' Institution, 350. 

 Bright. John, 466. 



Buiigraff, M., agent of French Government, 

 425. 



Caxxos, 402; contract for, 407; testing, 

 410; second contract, 413; recoil apparatus, 

 415; of 1S54, manufacture of, 44y ; meth- 

 ods of making by Treadwell, Armstrong, 

 Krupp, AVhitworth, and Blakely compared, 

 455; device for t-ring, 482; comparative 

 strength of, 490; improvement in machin- 

 ery for welding and forming, 517 ; French 

 report on, 521. 



Civil War, 475. 493. 



Club, Cambridge Scientific, 444. 



Columbus and Washington compared, 44 



Crane, Commodore, objects to recoil appara- 

 tus, 413. 



Dalton, Dr. John, Jlanchester, 387. 

 Darwin. Charles, origin of species, 473. 

 Dow, Phineas, 329, 474, 486. 

 Disraeli, 466. 



Faradat, Prof. M., 385, 386, 387. 



Farrar, Prof. .lohn. 393 



Fay, Judge Samuel P. P., 46S. 



Finspong gun, 410. 



French character, 435. 



French proving of 32-poundT, 432, 521. 



French Kevolulion of 1848, 4:18. 



Galileo, 4B0. 

 German people, 4-37. 

 Gore Hall, building of, 398. 

 Gray, Dr. Asa. discussion with, on Darwin's 

 theory, 474; letter of thanks, 491. 



Hale, Xathan, single track railways, 363. 



Hatchelling machine, 369. 



Hoops for cannon, 448. 



Huxley, T. H., estimate of Bacon, 461. 



Huger, Capt., proves guns, 411; visits manu- 



factor\', 411. 

 Hydrostatic Press, 408, 520. 



IsKrsG apparatus, .343. 

 Institute, French, 434. 



Institute of Technologv, 32-pounder at, 441- 

 Inventions of England and France compared, 

 435. 



Jackso.n, p. T., death of, 4-32. 



Ki.NG, Mr. T. B., bill for Treadwell's guns, 

 428. 



Levebrikb, 435. 



MASSACiirsETTS, cannon for, 476. 

 Menai Bridge, two tubes not needed, 362. 

 Mill Dam water-pipe, 348. 



Nail machine, 330. 



Navy Yard, Treadwell's machines at, 376. 



Palmerstos. Lord, 466. 



Parliament, British members of, 466. 



Perkins, Jacob, 336. 



Pompeii and Herculaneum, 4-37. 



Power-looms first u.sed, .344. 



Press foot lever for printing, 333. 



Press power printing, 340. 



Quacks in London, 3.37. 

 Quincv, President, on stone for Gore Hall, 

 402; on Lord Bacon, 462. 



Railway, single tracks for, 367. 



Kailwav, Boston and Albany, report on 402, 



502. " 

 Recoil nf cannon, prevention of, 415, 417, 419; 



letter to Hon. George Bancroft on, 421. 

 Reservoirs in Boston, 356. 

 Kipley, Gen. James W., report on Treadwell's 



gun, 478. 

 Fiobin, American, feeding of. 470. 

 liodman. General, the strength of his gun 



examined, 480. 

 Rope-making, 367, 377. 

 Ropes, tarring of, 374. 

 Roving machine, 371. 

 Royal Institution. 38.5, 3.86. 

 Rumford, Count, experiments on cannon, 403. 

 Rumford Premium awarded, 488. 

 Russell, Lord J., 466. 

 Russian Government foundry, 425. ■ 



Saiem Mill-dam, report on, 496. 



Scott, Sir Walter, 390. 



Screw machine for cannon, 447. 



Secretaries, letter to, 452. 



Short Account of Improved Cannon, 403, 



Shot, steel prismoidal, 485. 



Spinning Company, 379. 



Spinning Jenny, 37.3, 397. 



Steel Cannon Company, 408, 424. 



Stephenson, George, his locomotive, 362. 



Sudbury Inn, 442, 474. 



Talcott, Col. George, 407, 427; asks Mr. 

 Treadwell to manufacture cannon, 429. 



Testimony of expert.s, 338. 



Theological views, 337, 463. 



Toggle joint, 333. 



Totten, Gen. Joseph G., letter to, on cannon, 

 453. 



Treadwell, Daniel, parentage and birth, 325; 

 schools, 326; builds tire-engine, 327; puz- 

 zling over perpetual motion, 328: appren- 

 tice, 329; nail making and wood screws, 

 330; ill health; medical student, 331: health 

 improves, returns to mechanics, 332; foot- 

 lever printing press invented, 334: sails for 

 Liverpool, 335; in London with press, 339; 

 invents power-printing press, a printer, 

 345; edits Boston Jouriial of Philosophy 

 and Arts, 346: experiments on various soli- 

 stances with great pressure, and preservation 

 of wood, 347; Fellow of American Acad- 

 emy, 3.50 ; commissioner for supplying Bos- 

 ton with pure water, 351 ; letter to Mayor 

 Lyman, on same subject, 355 ; conduct- 

 ing traffic on railways with a single track, 

 358; on Board of Visitors at West Point, 

 366; M.aster of Arts, 367; rope-makinc, 

 368 ; marriage, 380 ; Professor, 381 ; sails 

 for England, 383; course of lectures, 394; 

 chairman of commission on weights and 

 measures, .395; aijain Water Commission- 

 er. 397; Gore Hall built, 399; railway 

 report, 402; cannon, 403: goes to Wash- 

 ington, 407; cannon proved. 410; recoil 

 apparatus, 415; resigns Rumford Professor- 

 ship, 423; •32-pounder sent to France. 425; 

 sails fnr Europe, 430; French commission 

 on 32-pounder; in Italy. 434; cannon man- 

 ufacture ends, 441; invents the Ho<tped 

 Gun, 447, 451; lecture on the relation of 

 science to the useful arts, 459 : in Rome, 

 464; feeding American robin, 470; exam- 

 ines .strength of Rodman gun, 480; invents 

 device for tiring cannon, 481; sends it to 

 Napoleon III., 48-3; vote of thanks of the 

 Academy, 487; award of Rumford Pre- 

 mium. 488; religious belief, 494; death 

 and will, 495. 



Wade, Col. Nathaniel, 328. 



War, Civil. 475, 493. 



Ware, Dr. John, 468. 



Water Commissioner, 351, 355, .397. 



Water-pipe obstructed bv air, 349. 



Wayside Inn, 442. 



Weights and measures commissioner, 394. 



Wire experiments as to tensile strength, 448. 



Wood, preservation of, by injecting fluids, 



347. 

 Wood Screws, 330. 

 Wordsworth and American historians, 431, 



435. 



York Mixsteb, service there, 431. 



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