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INDEX TO THE CENTURY. 



POWDER. 



POWDER flask, noticed, 474. 

 PRIMERO gloves, 521. 



Q. 



QUINT-ESSENCE of motion, by the Mar 

 quis of Worcester, noticed, 357 ; a 

 statement of 9 inventions, 555, 556. 



R. 



RAMSEY, D., raises water by fire, 479. 



RASPING mill, 512. 



RIBBON, a discourse woven in, 503. 



RISING bulwark, 430 432. 



RIVER, in a garden, 418; ebbing and 

 flowing, 419. 



ROLLOCK, JOHN, his verses allusive to 

 condensation, 533; his tract containing 

 his panegyric, the Act, &c., 559. 



ROME, an invention obtained there, 353; 

 * Claudius his studies at,&quot; 416. 



ROYAL Society, Transactions, 351 ; Ba 

 ron Guilford declines being proposed 

 for, 352 ; Sir W. Petty, and Dr. 

 Grew, their discourses, 365; Savery 

 exhibits his model, 484; &quot;first ap 

 pearance in the world&quot; of Savory s 

 engine, 494. 



RULE of gradation, 448, 449. 



S. 



SAKERS, cannon, 467. 



SAVERY, THOMAS, noticed, 369 ; note, 

 371 ; model engine for raising water, 

 484, 485 ; his &quot; Miners Friend,&quot; 485 ; 

 his description and the &quot; Century &quot; 

 compared, 486, 487 ; Bradley s ac 

 count, 487 ; engine at Cambden 

 House, 487 ; Switzer s account, 487, 

 488 ; its discovery attributed to a 

 tobacco-pipe, 488 ; the same to a 

 Florence flask, 489 ; noticed by Dr. 

 Desaguliers, 488 490 ; accused of 

 obtaining and destroying the Mar 

 quis s books, 489 ; this charge exa 

 mined, 492, &c. ; as an independent 

 inventor, 497 ; his career, 498. 



SCANTLING explained, 348. 



SCARIONI, FRANCESco,his Centuria, 346. 



SCIENCE, state of, to 1667, 348. 



SCREWED ascent of stairs, 445. 



SEA-banks, to construct, 528, 529. 



SEA-castle, or fortification, 411, 412. 



SEA-sailing fort, 412. 



SEALS, 387, 388, &quot;abundantly signifi 

 cant,&quot; 389, a cipher seal, 389, 390; 

 private and particular to each owner, 

 391. 



SECRET conveyance for letters, in a 

 comb, 511 ; in a knife, spoon, or fork, 

 511. 



SECRETI, by Scarioni, 346. 



SENSES, alphabets by the, varied, 436. 



SERPENTINE scale, Browne s calculating, 

 512. 



VAUXHALL. 



SERVIERE, M., his cabinet, 350. 



Snip-destroying engine, 401. 



SHIP- raising engine, 526. 



SHIP, to safeguard any, 404 ; an unsink- 

 able, 404, 405 ; false decks, 405 ; 

 anchor, to weigh up, 406 : driving 

 against wind and tide, 407 ; three 

 ships, or a sea castle, 411; ships 

 muskets, 471. 



Sflip-musquets, to govern a whole 

 side of, 471. 



SHORT writing, expeditious way of (sup 

 posed to be the Marquis s invention), 

 349398; authors on, 436 438. 



SIEVE alphabet, 435. 



SMELL, alphabet by, 435. 



SPRING, strength-increasing, 421. 



STAIRS, a screwed ascent of, 444, 445. 



STAMPING engine, 346, 520. 



STEAM Engine, notice of the first prac 

 tical, 345 ; historical notices of and 

 wavering character of opinions re 

 specting the Marquis of Worcester, 

 368; progressive improvements, 368; 

 false estimate of the Marquis in the 

 &quot; Life of James Watt,&quot; 369. 



STEAM, its power realized, 362. 



STONE bow, 421 423. 



STRENGTH-increasing spring, 421. 



STRENGTH multiplied in little room, 406. 



STRING alphabet, knotted, 435. 



STUART, ROBERT, contradicts himself, 

 370. 



SUBMARINE vessel, 402. 



SWITZER, S., his account of Savery s 

 engine, 487, 488. 



T. 



TAPE or ribbon, a discourse woven in, 



503. 



TASTE, alphabet by, 435. 

 TELEGRAPH, electric, anticipated, 357. 

 TELEGRAPHY, systems of, 399. 

 TINDER-BOX, a most conceited, 439. 

 TOBACCO-TONGS engine, 445, 446. 

 TOUCH, alphabet by, 435. 

 TOWN, for guarding several avenues to 



a, 472. 



TRADESCANT, his museum, 356. 

 TRANSPARENT water-screw, 450. 

 TRITHEMIUS quoted, 393. 



U. 



UNIVERSAL character, 432434. 

 UNTOOTHSOME pear, 513. 



V. 



VACUUM, noticed by John Bate, 360. 



VAUXHALL WORKS, expense of, 358; 

 William Lambert s petition in respect 

 to, 537 ; Marquis of Worcester s en 

 gagements there in 1647, and earlier, 

 537, 538. 



