BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX 



the alphabet. According to the legend, he was 

 the son of a Phoenician king. 



Kant, Immanuel, iii, 26. Born at Konigsberg, 

 Prussia, April 22, 1724; died there Feb. 12, 1804. 

 Celebrated German philosopher. He conceived 

 the nebular hypothesis which attempted to ex- 

 plain world formation along rational lines. The 

 puzzling questions left unanswered by Kant 

 were answered by Laplace's nebular hypothesis 

 (see Vol. iii, 31). 



Kay, John, ix, 22. Born near Bury, Lan- 

 cashire, July 1 6, 1704; died in France about 

 1764-5. English mechanic and inventor. He in- 

 vented the "flying shuttle," a power loom, and 

 several other aids to weaving. On account of 

 these inventions mobs of workmen wrecked his 

 house, stole his machines,, and drove him from 

 the country. 



Kay, Robert, ix, 43. Son of John Kay. In 

 1760 he invented the "drop-box," a device which 

 enabled the weaver to insert several colors as 

 strips across the length of his loom with great 

 facility. 



Kelvin, Lord (William Thomson), iii, 165; v, 

 1 06. Born at Belfast, Ireland, June 1829; died 

 at London, Dec. 17, 1907. Celebrated British 

 physicist. Active in almost every field of natu- 

 ral philosophy. Took an active part in laying 

 the Atlantic cable, and invented the mirror-gal- 

 vanometer and siphon-recorder in connection 

 with that work. Was first to maintain that the 

 earth is practically solid to the center and has 

 the rigidity of steel. Invented the short-needle 

 compass now in universal use by mariners. Was 



