slide, 8.
Vegetable nature of coal, 753.
VELOCITY OF LIGHT, 384.
Venice, view in, 396.
Vetterli rifle, 189.
Victoria, Australia, gold-field of, 688.
Victoria Bridge, Montreal, 282.
_Victoria_, H.M.S., 166, 168.
Vision, persistence of, 476.
VISUAL IMPRESSIONS, 468.
Voltaic element, 490.
Vulcanite, 728.
Vulcanized india-rubber, 727.
W.
Wall papers, machines for printing, 322.
Walter press, 323.
Warner’s torpedo experiment, 241.
Warren girder, 280.
_Warrior_, H.M.S., 150.
Warships, new types of, 167.
Water decomposed by electricity, 498.
Waterproof cloths, 726.
Watt, 3, 4, 8, 14.
Welding, electric, 537.
Wells, Horace, 735.
Welsbach incandescent gas lights, 777.
Whaleback, 147.
Wheatstone, 387, 470, 474, 552.
and Cooke’s telegraph, 548, 554.
Wheatstone’s automatic telegraph, 564.
dial telegraph, 568.
dot signals, 565.
Wheels of railway carriages, 107.
Whitehead’s torpedoes, 232, 242.
Whitworth’s guns, 193.
rifle, 182.
Wire-drawing for Atlantic cables, 576.
Wireless telegraphy, 546.
Woodbury printing process, 641.
process for engraving photographs, 643.
Woolwich, 27.
“infants,” 201.
Work, 11, 12, 160, 325, 804.
X.
X-RAYS, 445.
Y.
Young’s paraffin oil, 762.
Z.
Zinc, amalgamated, 490.
Zincography, 644.
Zoetrope, 478.
Zöllner, 475.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Added “near Bristol” after “146. Clifton Suspension Bridge,” on p.
xii.
2. Added “PLATE IX.” to caption of illustration facing p. 144.
3. Added “PLATE XI.” to caption of illustration facing p. 168.
4. Switched the captions for “Fig. 99.” facing p. 210 with the caption
for “Fig. 102” facing p. 206. The captions were out of order and
did not agree with the content of the illustration.
5. Changed “a calibre of 4,724 in.” to “a calibre of 4·724 in.” on p.
#208. Otherwise the muzzle opening would be larger than its
length. Confirmed online.
6. Changed “the two rows in” to “the two rows is” on p. 332.
7. Added “O T” after “P P, or” on p. 398.
8. Added “PLATE XVII.” to caption of illustration facing p. 422.
9. Changed “screw motion to finally” to “screw motion to finely” on p.
433.
10. Changed “which strangely makes it” to “which strangely makes its” on
p. 491.
11. Changed “Duke of Wellington’s statute” to “Duke of Wellington’s
statue” on p. 550.
12. Changed “-” to “·-” for the Morse Code for A in the table on p. 565
to agree with the text that follows.
13. Changed “vegetation which spontaneously makes it” to “vegetation
which spontaneously makes its” on p. 678.
14. Added “INDEX” header on p. 813.
15. Silently corrected typographical errors.
16. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
17. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
18. Superscripts are denoted by a carat before a single superscript
character or a series of superscripted characters enclosed in
curly braces, e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}.
19. Subscripts are denoted by an underscore before a series of
subscripted characters enclosed in curly braces, e.g. H_{2}O.