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, n. 



Carmania, equipped with tur- 

 bine engines in a test for speed 

 with the Caronia, equipped 

 with reciprocating engines, 



? roved herself the better boat, 

 ,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, 



1J S- 



Caro, associated with Frank in 

 process for fixation of nitro- 

 gen, 6, 309.- 



Caronta, 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. 



Carr6, 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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