KEY AND INDEX 



when superheated and then 

 cooled on the dryers, 8, 170. 



CABLE Systems, 7, 177- 

 Calcium carbide, method of its 



manufacture at Niagara Falls, 



6, 214. 

 Callixenos describes a ship said 



to have been used by Ptolemy 



Philopater, 7, 57. 

 Calmette, discoverer of the 



serum treatment for serpent- 



poisoning, 6, 184. 

 Calotype process, invented by 



Talbot, 8, 227. 

 Calvin withholds the document 



of Servetus, 2, 168 



Candle, tallow, invented in the 

 twelfth century, 6, 203. 



Canton, John, produces both 

 positive and negative elec- 

 tricity on the same substance, 

 2, 295. 



Carbonic-acid gas liquefied, 6,40. 



Carcel, his improvement of 

 Quinquet's oil lamp, 6, 205. 



Carlisle, discovered that a gal- 

 vanic current would decom- 

 pose chemicals in solution, 

 8, ii. 



Carmania, equipped with tur- 

 bine engines in a test for speed 

 with the Caronia, equipped 

 with reciprocating engines, 

 proved herself the better boat, 

 7,82. 



Carnegie, an American ship 

 constructed for the purpose 

 of making accurate charts of 

 the lines of magnetic declina- 

 tion in various parts of the 

 globe, 7, 12. 



Carnot, Sadi, demonstrated that 

 a definite quantity of work 

 could be transformed into a 

 definite quantity of heat, 3, 

 255; worked out general 

 theory of the heat engine, 6, 

 II S- 



Caro, associated with Frank in 

 process for fixation of nitro- 

 gen, 6, 309. 



Caronia, equipped with recipro- 

 cating engines for a test 



against the Carmania 

 equipped with turbine en- 

 gines, 7, 82. 



Carpenter, William B., studies 

 in embryology, 4, 122. 



Cartwright, Dr. Edmund, clergy- 

 man of the Church of Eng- 

 land, and inventor of the 

 power-loom, 9, 44; as poet 

 and preacher, 9, 44 ; as inven- 

 tor of the power-loom, and 

 other useful devices, 9, 45. 



Carre, his invention of carbons 

 for arc lights, 6, 227. 



Cassini, Dominic, a celebrated 



French astronomer, 3, 13. 



Cataro, Galeazzo, records the 

 building of the first chimney in 

 a house in Rome in the four- 

 teenth century, 9, 150. 



Cathode rays, Sir William 

 Crookes experiments with, 3, 

 249 ; Professor Roentgen's dis- 

 covery of the remarkable 

 effects of, 3, 251-252. 



Cattle-raising, methods at be- 

 ginning nineteenth century 

 compared with those at end, 



6, 20. 



Caus, Solomon de, makes prac- 

 tical application of della 

 Porta's idea for pumping by 

 steam, 6, 83. 



Cavallo, Tiberius, demonstrated 

 the possibility of making toy 

 balloons, 7, 230. 



Cave-dwellers, the, 9, 134. 



Cavendish, Henry, continued 

 Black's studies, 4, 13; dis- 

 covery that water is formed 

 by the combination of hydro- 

 gen and oxygen, 4, 14; con- 

 troversy with Watt, ibid., ex- 

 periments with air, 4, 16; 

 discovery of nitrous acid, 4, 

 17; discovery of hydrogen 

 gas and its 'effect upon aero- 

 nautics, 7, 230. 



Cawley, John, English plumber 

 and glazier associated with 

 Newcomen in patenting at- 

 mospheric engine, 6, 89. 



Cayley, Sir G., gas engine motor 

 invented by, 6, 132. 



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