BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX 



crops to-day. Whitney's machines were manu- 

 factured by others before he could secure a 

 patent. He made a fortune, however, in manu- 

 facturing firearms at Whitneyville, Conn. 



Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner, i, 27. Born at 

 Hardendale, Westmoreland, Oct. 5, 1797; died 

 Oct. 29, 1875. English Egyptologist. His wri- 

 tings have furnished important information as to 

 the status of science among the ancient Egyp- 

 tians. 



Wiseman, Richard, ii, 184. Born in 1625 ; died 

 in 1686. A celebrated English surgeon. He was 

 in the service of all the Stuart kings. He was 

 first to advocate primary amputation in gunshot 

 wounds, and to introduce the treatment of aneu- 

 rism by compression. 



Wohler, Friedrich. (See Liebig and Wohler.) 



Wollaston, William Hyde, iv, 41. Born at East 

 Dereham, Norfolk, Aug. 6, 1766; died at London, 

 Dec. 22, 1828. Noted English physicist and 

 chemist. He invented the camera lucida and 

 goniometer, and discovered palladium and rho- 

 dium. He also discovered the ultra-violet rays in 

 the solar spectrum. 



Wright, Orville, vii, 288. Born at Dayton, 

 Ohio, Aug. 19, 1871. Inventor (with his brother 

 Wilbur), of the aeroplane flying-machine. First 

 tests of flying machine made in 1903, at Kitty 

 Hawk, N. C. Successful long distance tests made 

 near Dayton, Ohio, 1905. With his brother, 

 first demonstrated that the heavier-than-air fly- 

 ing-machine is a practical mechanism. 



Wright, Wilbur, vii, 288. Born near Millville, 

 Ind., April 16, 1867. Inventor (with his brother 

 Orville), of the aeroplane flying-machine. Made 



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