Index 



333 



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Tawney, E. B. - - 313 



Teall, J. J. H. - - 311 



Telegraphy : 



Invention of - 187 



Submarine- - 189 



Wireless - - 33 



Telescope, reflecting 52, 54, 169, 



170 



Refracting- 54, 172 



Temperature, critical - 140 



Tennant, C. - - 195 



Terrestrial magnetism, see 



under Magnetism. 

 Thales - 8 



Thallium - - - 159 



" Theater of Insects " - 220 

 Theobaldus - - 217 



Thermodynamics : 



First law - - 23 



Second law of - 26, 28 

 Thermometer - - 83 



Self-registering - - 288 

 Thin films, thickness mea- 

 sured - - 160 

 Thiselton-Dyer, Sir W. - 249, 

 250, 272 

 Thompson, B., see Rumford, 



Count. 



Thompson, -Vaughan - - 292 

 Thomson, James - 135, 136 

 Thomson, Sir Joseph - 152, 182 

 Thomson,William, see Kelvin, 



Lord. 



Thomson, Wyville - 289, 291 

 Thorpe, Sir E. - - 109, 160 

 Threlkeld, Caleb - - 254 

 Tides - 177, 178 



Time signals - - - 166 

 Topsell, E. - 220, 257 



Torpedo - - 83 



Torsion balance, invention 



of 86, 87 



Townley, R. - - 75, 95 

 Tradescant, John, the elder 260 

 Tradescant, John, the younger 261 

 Transit of Venus, see under 



Venus. 



Transpiration of gases - 145 

 Trevithick, R. - - 104, 105 



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Trinity College, Dublin 137-139 



Turbine : 



Engine - - 187 



Pumps - - - 151 



Turner, W. : 



Botany - - 229, 230 

 Zoology ... 256 



Tyndall, J. - 88, 213 



Type printing machine - 191 



Ultra-violet rays - 124 



Uniformitarian theory - 311 

 University College, founda- 

 tion of - - 143-146 

 Uranus, discovery of - - 91 



Vaccines, first used - - 306 

 Vacuum tubes, invention of 162 

 " Valency " - 148 



Vanadium - 150 



Venus, transit of - 52, 63, 88, 

 167, 207, 209 



Vernier - - 56 



Vertebrate, origin of, re- 

 search - - 303 

 Vesalius - - - 219 

 Vines, S. H. - - 250 

 Viscosity of gases - - 34 

 Vives - - 218, 221 

 Volta, A. - - 80, 106 

 Voltaic arc - 114 

 Vulcanite, invention of 190 

 Vulcanization - - 190 



Wallace, A. R. 

 Wallich, Dr. 

 Wallis, John 

 Waltire - 

 Ward, Joshua 

 Ward, M. - 



273, 281 

 291, 292 



- 50 



- 85 



- 194 

 250, 253 



