INDEX TO THE CENTURY. 



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VENICE. 



VENICE, an invention obtained there, 



353, 425. 



VERSTEGAN, on science in 1605, 349. 

 VINCI, Leonardo da, notice of, 345. 



W. 



WALPOLE, HORACE, criticises the &quot;Cen 

 tury,&quot; 348, 349 ; groundless censure, 

 523, 524. 



WATCH, a continually going, 508. 



WATER, to drive up by fire, 475; heated 

 in a cannon, 475 ; Dr. Eamsey s patent, 

 479; raised by Bate, 479; Van Etten 

 applies heat, 481; cannon experi 

 ment, 481, 482; Savery s model, to 

 raise, 484, 485. 



WATER-SCREW, to make hollow, 450; a 

 transparent, 450; a double, 451; plan 

 of construction, 552, 553. 



WATERWORK, a fire, 476; &quot;the most 

 stupendious work in the whole world,&quot; 

 533 535; a stupendous, 535. 



WATER- WORKS, noticed by John Bate, 

 360; the Marquis acknowledges the 

 passing of the Act for, 383. 



WATT, JAMES, his engine, 369 ; indebted 

 to the influence of capital, 369 ; false 

 estimate of the Marquis in &quot; The 

 Life of,&quot; 369372. 



WEIGHTS, to raise, 531533. 



WELD, Mr., his &quot; knick-knack-atary,&quot; 

 352. 



WERDEN, Sir JOHN, mathematician, 

 352. 



WHEEL, great weighted, 452 456. 



WORCESTER, Marquis of, the Harleian 

 MSS. not in his handwriting, 346 ; 

 his engine in the Century, 353 ; esti 

 mated number of his inventions, 353, 

 354 ; classified, 354 ; his proposed 

 work, 355 ; special notices of practice, 

 355, 356; silence of contemporaries, 

 356 ; promises a box to the Earl of 



WRITE. 



Lotherdale, 356 ; a mysterious inven 

 tion, 357 ; his pecuniary position, 358 ; 

 expense of his works at Vauxhall, 

 358 ; analogous inventions in old 

 authors, 359; enumerated, 359; seems 

 to have been attached to Bate s Myste 

 ries of Nature and Art, 359 ; Water 

 works, noticed by Bate, 360 ; ac 

 quainted with Dr. Dee s preface to 

 Euclid, 361 ; styles of Bate and the 

 Marquis compared, 361 ; in search of 

 powerful mechanical aids, 361 ; real 

 izes the power of steam, 362 ; writes 

 his &quot; Century &quot; similar to patent spe 

 cifications, 363, 364 ; his pre-eminent 

 invention, 366 ; wavering character of 

 historical notices of his invention, 

 368 ; false estimate of the Marquis s 

 personal character, his invention, and 

 his &quot;Century,&quot; in the &quot;Life of James 

 Watt,&quot; 369, 370, 371, 372 ; his gene 

 ral character, his inventions, and his 

 work, 373 ; the modern steam engine 

 owes its origin to the Marquis and 

 his work, 369 ; his engine at work, 

 370 ; acknowledges the passing of the 

 Act for his engine, 383 ; mentions 

 the sacrifice of 700 000, 383 ; his 

 &quot; Golden Age,&quot; 385 ; his supposed 

 invention of Short Writing, 394 ; his 

 cipher-written letter, 398 ; a model o 

 his semi-omnipotent engine to be bu 

 ried with him, 530; notice of his 

 works at Vauxhall, 1647, 537, 538; 

 statement in his Act of Parliament, 

 539, 540 ; construction of his engine, 

 551 ; key to his cipher discovered, 

 553 ; nine of his inventions, or quint 

 essence of motion, 555 ; his patent for 

 clocks, &c., 557 ; Bollock s pamphlet, 

 containing Act, &c.. 559. 

 WRITE, to, in the dark, 503. 



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