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MEMOIR OF DANIEL TREADWELL 



INDEX. 



Amoskeag Mills, declines charge of, 395. 



Andrew, Gov. John A., letter to Secretary of 



War, 477. 

 Arago, personal appearance, 434. 

 Armstrong, Sir William, adopted TreadwelPs 



methods, 446. 



Barrage's calculating machine, 383, 385. 



Baron, Lord, 460. 



Balch, Capt. Geo. F., 485, 



Blakely, Capt. T. A., 458. 



Boston, low state of mechanic arts in, 344. 



Boston Mechanics' Institution, 350. 



Bright, John, 466. 



Btm-raff, M., agent of French Government, 



Caxxox, 402: contract for, 407; testing, 

 410; second contract, 413; recoil apparatus, 

 415; of 1854, manufacture of, 449; meth- 

 ods of making by Tread well, Armstrong, 

 Krupp, Whitwortn, and Blakely compared, 

 455; device for firing, 482; comparative 

 strength of, 490; improvement in machin- 

 ery for welding and forming, 517; French 

 report on, 521. 



Civil War. 475, 493. 



Club, Cambridge Scientific, 444. 



Columbus and Washington compared, 44 

 Crane, Commodore, objects to recoil appara- 

 tus, 413. 



Dalton, Dr. John, Manchester, 387. 

 Darwin, Charles, origin of species, 473. 



Dow, Phineas, 329, 474, 486. 



Disraeli, 466. 



Faraday, Prof. ML 385, 386, 387. 



Farrar, Prof. John, 393. 



Fay, Judge Samuel P. P., 468. 



Finspong gun r 410. 



French character, 435. 



French proving of 32-pound*>r, 432, 521. 



French Revolution of 1848, 438. 



Galileo, 460. 

 German people, 437. 

 Gore Hall, building of, 398. 

 Gray, Dr. Asa, discussion with, on Darwin's 

 theory, 474; letter of thanks, 491. 



Hale, Nathan, single track railwavs, 363. 



Hatchelling machine, 309. 



Hoopy for cannon, 448. 



Huxley, T. H., estimate of Bacon, 461. 



H tiger, Capt., proves guns, 411: visits manu- 

 factory, 411. 



Hydrostatic Press, 408, 520. 



Institute of Technology, 32-pounder at, 441. 

 Inventions of England and France compared, 

 435. 



Jackson, P. T., death of, 432. 



King, Mr. T. B., bill for Treadwell's guns, 

 428. 



Leverrier, 435. 



Massachusetts, cannon for, 476. 

 Menai Bridge, two tubes not needed, 

 Mill Dam water-pipe, 348. 



362 



Nail machine, 330. 



Navy Yard, Tread well's machines at, 376. 



Palmerston, Lord, 466. 



Parliament, British members of, 466. 



Perkins, Jacob, 336. 



Pompeii and Herculaneum, 437. 



Power-looms tirst used, 344. 



Press foot lever for printing, 333. 



Press power printing, 340. 



Quacks in London, 337. 

 Quincy, President, on stone 

 402; on. Lord Bacon, 462. 



for Gore Hall, 



Inking apparatus, 343 

 Institute, French, 434. 



Railway, single tracks for, 367. 



Railway. Boston and Albanv, report on 402, 

 502. * 



Recoil of cannon, prevention of, 415, 417, 419; 



letter to Hon. George Bancroft on, 421. 

 Reservoirs in Boston, 356. 



Ripley, Gen. James W., report on TreadwelPs 

 gun, 478. 



Robin, American, feeding of, 470. 



Rodman, General, the strength of his gun 



examined, 480. 

 Rope-making, 367, 377. 

 Ropes, tarring of, 374. 

 Roving machine, 371. 

 Royal Institution, 385, 386. 

 Rumford, Count, experiments on cannon, 403. 

 Rumford Premium awarded, 488. 

 Ru dl, Lord J., 466. 

 Russian Government foundry, 425. 



Saiem Mill-dam, report on, 496. 

 - tr, Sir Walter, 390. 



Screw machine for cannon, 447. 



Si retaries, letter to, 4.V2. 



Short Account of Improved Cannon, 403. 



Shot, steel prismoidal, 485. 



Spinning Company, 379. 



Spinning Jenny, 373, 397. 



Steel Cannon Company, 408, 424. 



Stephenson, George, Ins locomotive. 362. 



budbury Inn, 442, 474. 



Talcott, Col. George, 407, 427; asks Mr- 

 Treadwell to manufacture cannon, 429. 



Testimonv of experts, 338. 



Theological views, 337, 463. 



Toggle joint, 333. 



Totten, Gen. Joseph G., letter to, on cannon, 

 453. 



Treadwell, Daniel, parentage and birth, 325; 

 schools, 326; builds fire-engine, 327; puz- 

 zling over perpetual motion, 328; appren- 

 tice, 329; nail making and wood screws, 

 330; ill health; medical student, 331; health 

 improves, returns to mechanics, 332; foot- 

 lever printing press invented, 334; sails for 

 Liverpool, 335; in London with press, 339; 

 invents pow r er-printing press, a printer, 

 345; edits Boston Journal of Philosophy 

 and Arts, 346; experiments on various sub- 

 stances with great pressure, and preservation 

 of wood, 347; Fellow of American Acad- 

 emy, 350 ; commissioner for supplying Bos- 

 ton with pure water, 351; letter to Mayor 

 Lyman, on same subject, 355 ; conduct- 

 } ing traffic on railwavs with a single track, 

 358; on Board of Visitors at West Point, 

 366; Master of Arts, 367; rope-making, 

 368; marriage, 380; Professor, 381; sails 

 for England, 383; course of lectures, 394; 

 chairman of commission on weights and 

 measures, 395; again Water Commission- 

 er, 397; Gore Hall built, 399; railway 

 report, 402; cannon, 403; goes to Wash-, 

 ington, 407; cannon proved, 410; recoil 

 apparatus, 415; resigns Rumford Professor- 

 ship, 423; 32-pounder sent to France, 425; 

 sails for Europe, 430; French commission 

 on 32-pounder; in Italy, 434; cannon man- 

 ufacture ends, 441; invents the Hooped 

 Gun, 447, 451; lecture on the relation of 

 science to the useful arts, 459 ; in Rome, 

 464; feeding American robin, 470; exam- 

 ines strength of Rodman gun, 480; invents 

 device for tiring cannon, 481; sends it to 

 Napoleon II L, 483; vote of thanks of the 

 Academy, 487; award of Rumford Pre- 

 mium, 488; religious belief, 494; death 

 and will, 495. 



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Wade, Col. Nathaniel, 328. 



War, Civil, 475, 493. 



Ware, Dr. John, 468. 



Water Commissioner, 351, 355, 397. 



Water-pipe obstructed by air, 349. 



Wayside Inn, 442. 



Weights and measures commissioner, 394. 



Wire experiments as to tensile strength, 448. 



Wood, preservation of, by injecting fluids, 



347. 

 Wood Screws, 330. 



Wordsworth and American historians. 431, 

 435. 



York Minster, service there, 431. 



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