Adam, traditions of, 12
Adventures of a bottle, 478
Eschylus, singular death of, 365
Agricola, quoted, 69, 72, 117, 126, 151, 219,
240, 278, 315
Agriculture, 79, 118. Implements of, 12, 132
Air, its properties, 176-186. Ancient expe-
riments on, 192. Rarefaction by heat, 374-
380. Liquids raised by currents of, 224-5,
447, 473
Air-barometer, 188, 375
beds, 177. Guns, 181, 192, 270, 425
chambers to pumps, 265, 269, 270, 306,
307, 326, 337, 338, 371
machines, 374-380, 447, 473
pumps, 179, 180, 190, 403, 426
Air and steam, their supposed identity, 395-
400, 418, 420, 421, 572
Ajutages, conical, effect of, 479, 480, 486
488, 490-496
Albertus, 104
Alchemists, 395, 407, 408
Alcithæ, taken off by priests, 385
Alcoholic engines, 441, 472
Aleppo, water-wheels at, 115
Alexandria, library at, 415. Wells at, 54, 55
Alfred the Great, measured time by candles,
Algerines, their superstitions, 36
Altars, 107. Tricks at, 383-385
Alum, used to make wood incombustible, 304
America, ancient arts in, 159-172
American water-works, 298-301. Fire-en-
gines, 339-348. Wells, 50, 160, 164, 298
Amontons, his fire-mill, 463
Androids and automata, 104, 183, 294, 534,
568, 573
Anecdotes, of Mahomet, 10. Dentatus, 19.
Darius, 22. Egyptian priests, 22. Two
elephants, 39. A boy and goose 39. Alex-
ander, 39. A caliph, 42. Cleanthes, 56.
An ass, 74. An Indian Cacique, 107. Ctesi-
bius, 121, 122. Valentinian, 196. A raven,
203. A Spanish pump-maker, 224.
Basha, 316. A Dutch Burgher, 366. Lord
Bacon, 375. Marquis of Worcester, 392.
Zeno, 393. Cromwell, 442. Savery, 454.
Phocion, 537, 565. Oxen, 573
Angelo, M. 534
Anglo-Saxons, worshiped wells, 36. Homily,
ibid. Buckets, 67. Mirrors, 121. Swape,
99. Windlass, 72. Steam idols, 398
Animals, employed to raise water, 74, 117,
573. Devices of, 365. Their physiology
illustrated, 180, 181, 209, 210, 256-258
Anthemius and Zeno, 393
Antipater, 282
Antlia of the Greeks, 213
Anvil, blacksmith's, 12, 43, 240, 241
Aquarius, 85
Arabs, 41
Arago, 145, 411, 433
Archimedes, 141, 360, 438
Archytas, 7, 268
Argand's siphon, 525
Arkwright, 359
Arts, useful, their origin, &c. 2, 6, 11, 12, 81,
83, 232, 282
Artificial hands and feet, 4
Atabalipa, 169
Astronomy, 85
Aqueducts, 165-169, 212
Auto da Fe, 351
Awls, 87, 489
Atmosphere, its properties, 176-189. Dis-
covery of its pressure, 187, 425, 426. Its
pressure diminished during storms, 481.
By currents of air, 482-8. By currents of
steam, 489-496. By currents of water,
479
Atmospheric pumps, 173, 175, 187-191, 206
-230
sprinkling pots, 194, 195, 567,
Babylon, 79. Hydraulic engine at, 133, 303
Bacchus, tricks at his temples, 200, 385
Bacon, Roger, 403
Lord, 416-17, 550
Balls supported on jets of air, steam, and
water, 270, 395
Barbers, 121, 162. See preface.
Barometer, 190, 375, 481
Basket, swinging, for raising water, 85, 86
Bate, John, 321, 375, 421, 565, 568, 569
Baths, 120, 147, 169, 393, 552, 558
Bears employed in tread-wheels, 74
Beer, 87
Bellows, 87, 90, 177, 180, 232-243, 261, 268,
483. Origin of the word, 570. Vulcan's
233, 240, 268, 568. African, 235, 246, 252.
Asiatic, 236. Egyptian, 237, 238. Mada-
gascar, 246, 252. Lantern, 240, 241. Rotary,
252, 255
piston, 244-252. Philosophical,
396, 397, 569, 570
pumps, 205, 210, 235, 241, 243, 568
Belt, hydraulic, 137
Belzoni, 124
Berenice's hair, 143
Chinese tinker, 20, 248. Juggler, 199. Wells,
28, 30, 35, 83. Proverbs, 30, 31. Printing,
Windlass, &c. 69, 70. Irrigation, 82, 83,
86. Noria, 112. Chain-pump, 150. Ships,
158. Bellows, 248. Digesters, 393. Clocks,
Besson's Theatre, quoted, 69, 114, 126, 152, Clysters, 260
218, 280, 317, 410
Bethlehem, well at, 48
Bible quoted or illustrated, 2, 10, 11, 19, 22,
24, 26, 30, 31, 33, 35, 38, 40, 44, 51, 52, 84, 87,
90, 95, 117, 132, 195, 292, 283, 291, 303, 366,
391, 393, 400, 476, 517, 536, 560, 565, 571
Birmah, raising water in, 73
Blacksmiths, Adam one, 12.
Grecian, 241. See preface.
Blood, circulation of, 132, 257
Blow-pipes, 19, 234, 569. Eolipilic, 569
Blowing tubes, Ewbank's, 484-496
siphons, Ewbank's, 527, 528
Boa Constrictor, 180
Coach with portable kitchen, 445
Coal-pits, raising water from, by fire, 419
Cocks, of gold, silver, &c. 170, 559, 560.
Three and four way, 354, 355, 421, 433, 449,
462, 523. Ancient, 394, 557, 559. Guage,
459. Siphon, 527. Sliding, 561
Coffins of iron and lead, 551
Cog-wheels, 71, 72, 114, 121. Engine for
cutting teeth, 323
Cohesion of liquids, 513, 515
Coining, Roman mode of, 6
Combs, 87. See preface.
Condensation of steam by injection discovered
by chance, 466
Cauldrons, 19-21, 120, 162, 171, 237, 238, Decaus, 319, 380, 410-13, 529, 533
Danaus, carried pumps to Greece, 130
Darius, anecdote of, 22
Chain-pumps, 148-158, 567. In ships, 154- Dials, 542
157, 567
Chain and sector, 467
Chairs, imprisoning, 29, 573. Cane, 323
Chemnitz pressure engine, 362
Child's rattle, inventor of, 268
Digesters, 392, 393, 446, 447
Discoveries in the arts, way to make, 359
Diogenes, buried heels up, 36
Distaff and spindle, 283
Distilling, 381, 393, 407
Divination, by water, 34, 36. With cups, 200,
201. With fire, 383, 571. Steam, 392, 399
Chimneys, increasing the draft of, 395, 482, Diving ships and apparatus, 430, 431
Dogs in tread wheels, 74, 75
Doors and gates, self-moving, 384, 555,556
Dove-tailing, 87, 268
Dowry of Scipio's daughter, 121
Faye's La, improved tympanum, 111
Feast of Cana, siphons used at, 517
Females, employment of ancient, 283
Drawing water, imposed as a punishment, 84, Fetters, Lacedemonians bound with their own,
Ecclesiastics, devices of, 103-108, 383-387,
392, 398-400
Eddystone light-house, 258, 366, 367
Egypt, labor of, what it was, 86
Egyptian wells, 26-28. Customs, 34, 78,
81, 83, 87. Noria, 113. Shadoof, 94, 95.
Mental, 85. Chain of pots, 123, 131. Screw,
142. Siphons, 516. Clepsydræ, 544, 547.
Goldsmiths, 234. Fire-engine, 307
Emblematic devices, 32, 194, 203, 261, 314,
Engines of motion, 419, 423
Engines to extinguish fires, of great antiquity,
303. Employed in ancient wars, 303, 305.
Referred to by Apollodorus, 235, 304. Des-
cribed and figured by Heron, 305. Portable
engines, 311. Syringe engine, 315, 317, 321.
German, 318, 319, 324, 331. English, 320,
321, 322, 332-335, 568. French, 324, 325,
327, 329, 336. Dutch, 328, 331. American,
339, 344, 345. Rotary, 285, 573. Steam
fire-engines, 338, 346-349
English, inventions of, 323. See preface.
Water-works. 294-296 Fire-engines, 320,
332-335. Steam-engines, 420, 437, 455,
465
Eolipiles, an emblematic device, 261. From
Heron's Spiritalia, 394. For blowing fires,
395-400, 573. Increasing draft of chim-
neys, 395, 401. Diffusing perfumes, 401.
Producing music, 401. Fusing metals, 397,
569, 570. In the human form, 398, 399.
Used in war, 400. Charging, 395, 407, 570
Eolipilic idols, 398, 400, 570
Eolus, god of winds, 400
Ephesus, fountains at, 49
Epigrams, ancient, 282, 537
Erckers, blowing eolipiles from, 307, 570
Evans, Oliver, 424
Evaporation of water from the earth, 506
Ewbank's experiments on raising water, 225.
Mode of propelling vessels, 406. Blowing
tubes, 484-496. Spouting tubes, 497
504. Mode of evaporating liquids in vacuo,
495. Experiments on the force of sap, 509.
Increasing the draft of chimneys, 488. Ven-
ating ships and mines, 488. Siphons, 527,
528. Siphon cocks, 527. Tubular valve,
556. Sliding cocks, 560, 561. Tinned leaden
pipes, 555
Explosion of boilers, 392
84. Found on skeletons in Pompeii, 29
Fire, modes of obtaining it, 197. Sacred, 196,
197. Superstitions respecting, 312-314.
Protecting buildings from, 304, 349. Greek
fire, 307. Laws respecting, 351. Raising
water by, 374-384, 418, 419, 431, 442.
Kindling on altars, 383, 384
Fire-escapes, 350
Fire-engines, 302-349, 573
Firemen, Roman, 309. American, 340-345
Fire-places, 483
Fish, fishing, 86, 87, 185. Nets, 550. Salt-
ing fish, 86
Flatterers, among men of science, 143, 145
Flies, curious mechanism of, 182, 183
Flying, 103, 104, 324, 430
Fly-wheels, 278, 283
Floats for steam-boilers, 471
Fludd, Robert, 65, 194, 219, 354, 407
Forcing pumps, 262
Forks derived from China, 70. Their use in
Europe, 76-78
Fortification, a moveable one, 430
Fortune, wheel of, 119
Fountains, 27, 33, 34, 35, 41, 43, 49, 119, 163,
170. Artificial. 30, 361, 379, 445, 532-541
Fountain lamps, &c. 193
Forcing pumps, 262-281
Francini's bucket machine, 128
Francois' steam machine, 463
French inventions.
See preface. Water-
works, 277, 296-298. Fire-engines, 317,
324-331, 336
Frictionless pumps, 208, 209, 321, 274, 568.
See bellows pumps.
Frogs, climb by atmospheric pressure, 183
Fuel, in steam idols, 400. Lord Bacon on,
Fulton, Robert, 359, 464
Fusee, 71. Fusee windlass, 69-71
Future happiness, erroneous views of, 508
Gaining and losing buckets,64-66, 128
Galileo, 104, 187, 188
Games, ancient, 81
Garcilasso, 167, 170, 509
Gardens, Egyptian, 101. Babylonian, 134.
Mexican, 163, 537. Peruvian, 171. Ro-
man, 536. Italian, 537. Persian, 539, 573
Floating, 539
Garden watering pots, 194, 195, 567, 573.
Garden syringes, 261
Gates and doors, closed by machinery, 556
Gauls, 36. Induced to invade Rome by the
report of a smith, 19
Geese, in tread wheels, 75
Genevieve, St. 37
Gensanne's engine, 463
Gerbert, 104, 401
German snail, 138. Bellows pump, 207. Fire-
engines, 319, 323-326. German inventions.
See preface.
Gesner, 381
Geysers, 411, 507
Glass, painting on, 4.
323. Mirrors, 121.
Engine for working,
Glass tomb of Belus,
Glass tubes, curious motion of, 429
Explosive motive engines, 441, 450, 471-473 Glazier's vise, antiquity of, 554
Hand, used as a cup, 11, 40, 52. Artificial
hand, 4
Haskin's quicksilver pump, 274, 275
Hautefille, 441
Heart, the, a pump, 258
Hegisostratus, wooden foot of, 4
Heliopolis, fountain at, 43, 49
Heraldic devices, 261, 314, 396
Hour-glasses, 545, 547
Hose pipes, 304, 326-328, 345
House warming, 37
Hudibras, 265
Hurricanes, commence at the leeward, 481
Huyghens, 441
Hydraulic belt, 137
Hydraulic ram, 367-372
Hydraulic machines, ancient, 7, 10, 81, 131,
132-135, 267. Used as first movers of ma-
chinery, 128, 140, 158
Hydrostatic press, 276
Idols, 82, 106-108. Eolipilic, 398, 399,570—
See
Impostures, 23, 106-108, 376-378.
juggling.
Imprisoning chairs, 429, 573
Incas of Peru. Aqueducts erected by them,
165-168
Incendiaries, 308, 350. Punishment of, 351
India ink, 70
Indians, American, 50, 107, 180
Inertia, 373, 503
Intermitting springs, 506
Inventions, how realized, 359. Few record-
ed, 416. Cause of this, 427. Advantages
of recording them, 453. Century of, 64,
140, 362, 428-438
Inventors, old, concealed their discoveries,
and why, 427. Caricatured, 439
Iodine, discovery of, 414
Iron cauldrons soldered, 20. Iron statues,
142. Planing iron, 283
Iron first cast in England, 553
Irrigation, 28, 79, 80, 83, 84, 95, 118, 119,
126, 131, 132, 163. Aquarius, an emblem
of, 119
Italian mode of raising water to upper floors,
63. Fountains, 534, 537
Jack, old name of a man-servant, 75. Smoke-
jack, ibid.
Jack of Hilton, a Saxon eolipile, 398
Jacks of the clock, 543
Jacob's well, 38, 42, 44
Herculaneum, wells at, 28, 29, 55. Fountains Jaculator fish, 257
Jantu, 89. Alluded to by Moses, 90
Japanese water-works, 125, 557. Clocks, 543
Herodotus, quoted, 4, 11, 12, 20, 22, 27, 58, Jehoahaz, portrait of at Thebes, 116
79, 80, 81, 84, 96, 133, 241, 260
Heroes, old mechanics the true, 5
Heron, 65. His fountain, 361. Air-machines,
378. Account of his Spiritalia, 385, 386.
Eolipiles from, 394
Hieroglyphics, American, 164
Hindoos, their mode of drinking, 11. Wells,
30, 33, 35, 38, 52. Carrying water, 84.
Picotah, 97. Swinging basket, 85. Jantu,
89, 90. Syringes, 260, 261. Water-clocks,
Hire La, his double acting pump, 271
Holy water, derived from the heathen, 166,
196, 386. Ancient vase for selling it, 387.
Used in consecrating bells, 313, 314, and
various other articles, 196
Homer, quoted, 19, 21, 22, 33, 233, 240, 250,
536. Kept a school at Scio, 131
Honors, titles of, absurd origin of some, 144,
145, 445, 446
Hookah, 270
Hooke, Dr. 441
Horn of abundance, 119, 120
Jets d'eau, 163, 532-541
Jeweled holes for pivots of watches, 122, 547
Jews, their wells, 25, 33, 34. Watering land,
86. Their arts, 133
Joseph's well, 38, 45-47. Divining cup, 200
Josephus, quoted, 38, 40, 54
Juggling, jugglers, magicians, &c. 23, 106-
108, 198-201, 376-385, 519, 521-523
Juvenal, quoted, 19, 43, 121, 310, 311, 312,
377. Banished, 48
Horn, drinking, saying respecting it, explain. Laban's images, 571
ed, 205
Ladders, portable, 350, 431
Lantern bellows, 237-240. Pump, 241, 242
Mines, ventilation of, 488. Raising water
from. See Agricola, Ramseye, Savery, New-
comen, Worcester.
Mirrors, 87, 121, 172
Moclach, a vizier, 55
Momentum, 883, 366, 367, 373. Animals have
a knowledge of it, 365
Monks, their ingenuity and professions, 104--
108, 386
Montgolfier's ram, 369-372
Moon, Wilkin's project to reach it, 103
Moreland, Samuel, his pump and speaking-
trumpet, 273. Steam-engine, 441-445
Morey's motive engine, 473
Motion, transmitted by air. 448. Rotary,
282-284
Motive engines, 423, 472-474
Mouth, various operations of, 477
Musical machines, 17, 381. See Eolipiles,
Memnon.
Load-stone for suspending an iron statue, &c, Mythology, Egyptian, 82-85. Peruvian, 167
142
Lobster's tail, mechanism of, 258
Locomotive carriages, 403, 423, 424, 473.
Increasing draft of chimneys of, 397, 488
London water-works, 294-296, 321, 434, 567
Looking-glasses, 121
Lucan, quoted, 108, 125, 540
Lustral vase and water, 387
Macaroni, kneading, 91
Machines, worked by the feet, 90, 237-239.
War machines, 305
Machines of Ctesibius, 122, 192, 213, 259,266—
270, 547
Madagascar, bellows of, 246, 252
Magic goblets, 518, 520
Magnet, ancient one, 142
Mahomedans, traditions and customs of, 12,
35, 36
Mahomet, 10, 54. His coffin, 142
New-Amsterdam, wells in, 299. Fires and
fire-wardens in, 339, 340
New-York, minutes of common council, 299
300. Old treasury note, 300. Fire-engines,
341-345
Newcomen and Cawley's engine, 296, 464
-468
Niagara falls, currents of air at, 476
Nineveh, well at, 26, 36
Man, his body a living pump, 257. His past Noria, Chinese, 112. Egyptian, 113. Spanish,
and future condition, 388-390, 508
Manco Capac, 168, 172
Mariner's compass, 143
Marli, water-works at, 296-298
Mars, represented, 308
Martial, quoted, 521
Mastodon, tradition of, 165. No extinct ani-
mals of the ox kind thirty feet high, 210
Mathesius, 410
Mechanic powers, origin of some, 1. Imple-
ments, 5, 6
Mechanics, ancient, little known of them,
3, 4. An account of their works and work.
shops would have been invaluable, 4. The
true heroes of old, 4, 5. Formerly seated
when at work, 139, 240. Advantages of
studying the mechanism of animals, 258.
Old priests first-rate mechanics, 104, 401,
Mechanism, revolving, 282-284
Medea, inventress of warm and vapor baths,
Medicines, quack, 120
Memnon, statue of, 377, 401
Mercurial guage and safety valves, 451
Metals, hammered into plates, 2, 283, 551.
Drawn into wire, 2. And into pipes, 554.
Ancient works in, 6, 87, 162, 171, 557. See
preface.
Metallic mirrors, 121
Mexicans, 34, 159-162
Mills, 282, 419, 423
Paddle-wheels, 454. Their antiquity, 406.
Substitutes for, 291, 406
Palladium of Troy, 12, 571
Panama chains, 162
Paper, Chinese mill, 90.
Made by steam,
388. Experiments with a sheet of, 483.
Marbling, 323
Papin, 1. His air-gun, 181. Driven from
France by religious persecution, 446. His
digesters, 447. Safety valve, 447, 451. Air-
machine, 447-450. Explosive engine, 450.
Steam machines, 450-452
Parabolic jambs of fire-places, 483
Paris, water-works of, 296–298. Fire-engines,
327-331, 336
Pascal, his experiments on atmospheric pres
sure, 189
Patents and patentecs, old, 439
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