An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 105 pdf

INDEX OF NAMES
1022
Dioscorides 75
Doane, Thomas 469
Dockwra, William 84
Dolby, Ray 724
Dondi, Giovanni di 23, 695
Dondi, Jacopo di 23
Donisthorpe, G.E. 840
Donisthorpe, Wordsworth 741
Donkin, Bryan 398, 674
Dony, Abbé Jean Jacques 92–3
Dore, Samuel 818
Dornberger, Captain W.R. 649, 651
Dow, Herbert 118
Downie, James 853
Downs, J.C. 225
Dowson, J.E. 314
Drais von Sauerbronn, Baron Karl 442
Drake, Edwin L. 211, 452
Drebbel, Cornelius van 537
Dreyse, Nikolaus von 984
Du Quet 449
Duboscq, Jules 735
Ducos du Hauron, Louis 735
Duddell, William du Bois 377
Dudley, Dud 153
Dunlop, John Boyd 217, 446, 449
Dunwoody, General Henry H.C. 726
Dupuy de Lôme 537
Duquesney 896

Duryea brothers 451
Dyer, John 817

Eakins, Thomas 740
Eastman, George 734–5, 739, 851
Eberner, Erasmus 80
Eckert, J. Presper 702
Edgeworth, Richard 472
Edison, Thomas Alva 41, 362, 365, 367–8,
370, 376, 719–21, 722, 741–2, 915, 959
Edwards, Humphrey 279
Eiffel, Gustave 483, 894
Einstein, Albert 213, 737
Elder, John 286
Elizabeth I, Queen 232
Ellington, E.B. 40
Elton, Abraham 84
Engelberger, Joseph 426
Engels, Friedrich 949
England, George 575
Ercker, Lazarus 86, 187
Ericsson, John 342, 528, 533
Euler, Leonhard 236
Evans, Brook 98
Evans, Oliver 30, 238, 277, 282
Ewbank, Thomas 380

Fafschamps 985
Fairbairn, P. 840
Fairbairn, William 241–2

Fairlie, Robert 575
Falcon 823
Faraday, Michael 41, 104, 352, 354–6, 358, 377
Farman, Henri 624
Farnsworth, Philo T. 745
Faure, Camille 353
Fawcett 219
Fellows, E.R. 411
Fenton, James 403
Fenton, Roger 733
Ferguson, Harry 790
Fermi, Enrico 214
Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de 41, 285, 371–2,
376, 960
Fessenden, Reginald 726
Field, Cyrus W. 715
Field, Joshua 398
Figuier 713
Finley, James 465
Fischer (colour film) 735
Fischer (television projector) 746
Fischer, F. 114
Fitch, John 527
Flechsig, W. 745
Fleitman, Thomas 99
Fleming, J.A. 41, 384, 720, 726, 727
Flettner, Anton 642
Focke, Heinrich 642
Fokker, Anthony 995
Ford, Henry 37, 413–14, 452, 789

Forlanini, Enrico 538, 641
Forrester, George 564
Forrester, Jay W. 702, 703
Forsyth, Alexander 984
Fouché 418
Fourdrinier, Henry and Sealy 674
Fourneyron, Benoît 242
Fowler, John 772
Fox, James 399, 404, 411
Fox, Samuel 853
Fox Talbot, Henry 732, 735
Franchot 914
Francis, J.B. 243
Franklin, Benjamin 350
Frankston, Bob 707
Fredkin, Edward 43
Freminet 553
Freyssinet, Eugène 466, 891
Friedrich August II, Elector of Saxony 193
Friese-Greene, William 741
Frisch, Otto 214
Frishmuth, Colonel 105, 108
Frost, James 889
Fuller, R.Buckminster 882, 900
Fulton, Robert 35, 527, 537, 996
INDEX OF NAMES
1023
Fust, Johann 27

Gabor, Denis 737

Gagarin, Yuri 652
Galen 75
Galileo Galilei 23, 25, 695–6, 730
Galvani, Luigi 94, 351
Gamble, John 674
Gamble, Josias 221
Gamond, Aimé Thome de 470
Garratt, H.W. 591
Gartside 821
Gascoigne 398
Gaskill, H.F. 285
Gatling, Richard 985
Geber 220
Ged, William 676
Geitner, Dr 97
Gemma-Frisius, Rainer 731
Genet, E.C. 614
Genoux, Claude 676
Gerber, Heinrich 464
Gerhard, William 104
Gesner, Abraham 211
Gestetner 683
Gibbons, John 162–3
Gibson 219
Giffard, Henri 575, 614
Gilbert, Sir Alfred 108
Gilbert, Cass 897
Gilbert, Joseph 775
Gilbert, William 41, 350
Gillott, Joseph 668

Gilpin, Thomas 510
Glauber, J.R. 221, 774
Glehn, Alfred de 582
Glenn, John 652
Glidden, Carlos 683
Goddard, Robert H. 649
Godowsky, Leopold 735
Goldmark, Peter 723, 746
Goldschmidt, Hans 123
Goldstein, Herman H. 702
Goliath of Gath 388
Gooch, Daniel 568
Goodyear, Charles 216, 849, 853
Gordon, James P. 737
Gorton, Richard and Thomas 821
Goucher, John 784
Gould, Gordon 737
Goulding, J. 836
Gowland, Professor 75–6
Goyen, Jan van 248
Graebe 202
Graetzel, R. 114
Graham, W.G. 448
Gramme, Z.T. 360, 381
Grant, George B. 412
Grantham, J. 456
Gray, Andrew 238
Gray, Elisha 719
Greathead, James Henry 468
Greathead, William 539

Green, Charles 611, 612
Gregory, C.H. 571
Gresham, Sir Thomas 81
Gresley, Nigel 596
Gridley, George O. 410
Griess, Peter 202
Griffith, A.A. 637
Griswold 419
Gropius, Walter 900
Grove, William 353
Guericke, Otto von 273, 323
Guest 417
Guido d’Arezzo 717
Guinand 197
Gundelfinger, Joachim 81
Günther, W. 244
Gurney, Sir Goldsworthy 458
Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zum 27, 670–71
Guton, Henri 729
Guyon, Jacques, Sieur du Chesnoy 483

Haber, Fritz 223–4, 775, 992
Hadfield, R.A. 174
Haenlein, Paul 614
Haessler, Helmut 646
Hahn, Otto 214, 1005
Hair, T.H. 266
Hakewessel 410
Hale, Edward Everett 747
Hale, Gerald A. 461

Hale, William 646
Hall, Asaph 747
Hall, Charles Martin 107–108, 111, 224
Hall, Douglas 426
Hall, John 223, 405–406, 408
Hall, Joseph 161–2
Halladay, Daniel 258
Hamd-allah Mustafi 77
Hamilton, Hal 594
Hammond, Robert 370
Hanaman, Franz 133
Hancock, Thomas 216–17, 853
Hancock, Walter 458
Hannan, W.J. 752
Hannart, Louis 852
Hansard, T.C. 677
Hansgirg 121
Hanway, Jonas 853
Harford family (brass-makers) 91–2
Hargreaves, James 825–7
Harington, Sir John 921
INDEX OF NAMES
1024
Harrison, John 24, 544, 696
Hart 408
Hartmann 376
Haupt, Hans 853
Hawksley, Thomas 952, 956
Haynes, Edward 127
Heald, James 413

Hearson 796
Heathcote, John 848
Heaviside, Oliver 729
Hedley, William 559
Hegginbotham 426
Heilmann, J. 840
Heiman, Frederick P. 705
Heinkel, Ernst 39
Henlein, Peter 695
Henne, Heinrich 242
Hennébique, François 890, 891
Henry VIII, King 81
Henson, William Samuel 39, 619–20
Herland, Hugh 866
Herman, Augustine 509–510
Hero of Alexandria 17, 25, 273, 290, 695
Herodotus 27, 69, 462, 868
Héroult, Paul Louis Toussaint 109–11, 176,
224
Herring, A.M. 622
Herrman 411
Herschel, Sir John 732
Hertz, Heinrich 725
Hetzel 696
Hewes, T.C. 239, 241
Highs, Thomas 828
Hill, David Octavius 733
Hill, Rowland 219, 964
Hillary, Sir William 539
Hipparchus 694

Ho Wei 97
Hochstetter, Daniel 82, 232
Hochstetter, Joachim 81
Hofmann, August Wilhelm von 201, 208
Hoke, W.E. 415
Holabird 897
Holden, Isaac 840
Holland, J.P. 537
Hollerith, Herman 701
Holly, Birdsill 285
Holmes, F.H. 358
Holmes, Oliver Wendell 735
Holt, Benjamin 472
Holtzapffel 393
Holzwarth, Hans 331, 332
Homfray, Samuel 35
Honnecourt, Villard de 231
Hooke, Robert 17, 24, 25, 731
Hooper, Captain Stephen 256
Hoover, W.H. 927
Hopkinson, John 361–2
Hopper, Thomas 894
Hornblower, Jonathan 278
Horner 739
Horning, H.L. 317
Horsbrugh 546
Hostein, Steven R. 705
Houldsworth, H. 839
House, Royal E. 719
Houston, E.J. 376

Howe, Elias 848, 851
Howe, Frederick W. 406, 408
Howe, William 463
Hudson, Henry 48
Hughes, D.E. 965
Hulls, Jonathan 453
Humfrey, Sir William 82–3
Hunt, Captain A.E. 108
Hunt, Walter 985
Hunter, M.A. 141
Huntsman, Benjamin 159–60, 397
Huth, G. 718
Hutton, William 98
Huygens, Christiaan 23, 24, 304–305, 696, 738
Hyatt, John Wesley 217
Hyland, L.A. 729

I Hsing 695
Ince, Francis 371
Isodorus of Miletus 880
Issigonis, Alec 452
Ivatt, H.A. 590
Ives, F.E. 682

Jabir see Geber
Jablochkoff, Paul 363
Jacobi, M.H. 380
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie 699, 823
Jacquet-Droz 696
Jansen, Zacharias 25

Jansky, Karl G. 729
Janssen, P.J.C. 742
Jefferson, Thomas 405
Jeffries, Zay 126
Jenatzy, Camille 458
Jenkins, Charles Francis 745
Jenney, William Le Baron 897
Jervis, John B. 573
Jessop, William 479, 480, 481, 556
Joffroy d’Abbans, Marquis de 527
Johansson, Carl Edward 414–15, 417
Johnson, Isaac Charles 889
Johnson, Percival Norton 97–8
Johnson, S.W. 582
Johnson, Thomas 843
Johnston, William 897
Jolly-Bellin, Jean-Baptiste 854
INDEX OF NAMES
1025
Jones, Samuel 912
Joubert 377
Joy, David 569
Judson, Whitcomb L. 852
Julius Caesar 462
Julliot, Henri 615
Junghans, S. 177
Junkers, Hugo 324, 628
Just, Alexander 133

Kahlmeter, Henric 85

Kaiser, Henry 121
Kaovenhofer, Andreas 236
Kaplan, Victor 245
Kapp, Gisbert 361
Karavodine, M. 332
Kay, John (of Bury) 821–2
Kay, John (of Warrington) 828
Kay, Robert 822, 830
Kekulé, August 202
Kellner, Carl 225
Kelly, William 837
Kelvin, Lord 112, 545 see also Thomson, Sir
William
Kemeny, John G. 705
Kennelly, Arthur 729
Kenward, Cyril Walter 426
Kepler, Johan 746
Kettering, C.F. 317
Kilby, J.S. 705
Kircher, P. 738
Kjellberg 418
Kleinschmidt, E.E. 715
Klic, Karl 679
Knight, Charles 677
Knight, J.P. 460
Komarov, Vladimir 653
König, Friedrich 675
Krais 205
Kranich, Burckard 81
Krebs, Arthur 614

Kremer, Henry 646
Kroll, W.J. 133, 141, 142, 143
Kügelgen 115, 117
Kung Ya 97
Kurtz, Thomas E. 706
Kyeser, Konrad 648
Kylala 598

La Hire, Phillippe 396
La Pointe, John 414
La Rive, A.A. 95
Lactantius 730
Laithwaite, Eric 384
Lake, Simon 537
Lanchester, Frederick 413, 451–2, 1001
Lanchester, George 451–2
Land, Edwin 736
Lane-Fox, St George 365, 368
Langen, Eugen 306, 454
Langer, Carl 100
Langmuir, Irving 915
Lanston, Tolbert 680
Lartigue, C.F.M.T. 586
Lascelles, William 891
Latimer-Needham, C.H. 538
Launoy 641
Lauste, Eugène Augustin 742
Laval, Gustav de 290, 346
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent 189, 201
Lawes, John Bennet 224, 775

Lawrence, Richard S. 406
Le Blanc 405, 983
Le Corbusier 892
Le Prince, Louis 741
Leakey, Louis 6
Leakey, Mary 6
Leakey, Richard 10
Leavitt, E.D. 285
Lebaudy brothers 615
Leblanc, Nicholas 221
Lebon, Phillippe 40, 209, 957
Leclanché, Georges 353
Ledru 95
Lee, Edmund 258
Lee, Revd William 819, 846
Leeghwater, Jan 250
Leeuwenhoek, Anton von 25, 730
Legagneux, G. 627
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 699
Lemale, C. 332
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 594
Lenoir, Etienne 305, 454
Leonardo da Vinci 162, 390, 393, 395, 461,
483, 500, 815, 899, 978
Leoni 209
Leonov, Alexei 652
Lesage, George Louis 710
Leschot 696
Lesseps, Ferdinand de 505, 514
Lethbridge 553

Leukippos 212
Leupold, Jacob 235, 277
Levassor, Emile 451
Levavasseur, Léon 625
Lever, William Hesketh 923
Levers, John 848
Lévy, Lucien 727
Lewis, Colonel I.N. 992
Lewis, J. 818
Lewis, William 129
Liang Ling-tsan 695
Liardet 885
Libby, William F. 697
INDEX OF NAMES
1026
Liebermann 202
Liebig, Baron Justus von 201, 775, 910
Lilienthal, Otto 39, 621
Lillie, James 241
Linde, Carl von 454
Lindsay, Sir Coutts 371
Lippershey, Johannes 25, 730
Lister, Samuel C. 805, 840
Lloyd, C.M. 417
Lloyd, Edward 84
Locke, Joseph 565, 575
Lombe, John and Thomas 824
Longbotham, John 478
Louis 894
Louis XV, King of France 193

Lovelace, Ada Augusta, Countess of 701
Lowrey, Grosvenor P. 368
Lucretius 212, 350
Ludwig I, King of Bavaria 498
Lukin, Lionel 539
Lumière, August and Louis 742
Lunardi 614
Lundstrom 912
Lusuerg, Dominicus 25
Lusuerg, Jacob 25
Lysippus of Sicyon 68

McAdam, John Loudon 435–6, 963
McAlphine, Robert 891
McAuliffe, Christa 656
McCormick, Cyrus 782
McCready, Paul 647
Macintosh, Charles 216, 849, 853
McIntyre, John 529
McKenna, P.M. 417
Macmillan, Kirkpatrick 443
McNaught, William 279
Macquer, P.J. 129, 193
Maddox, R.L. 733
Magee, Carl C. 461
Maiano, Giovanni da 871
Maillart, Robert 466
Maiman, Theodore H. 419, 737–8
Mallet, Anatole 581, 582–3
Malouin, P.J. 95

Manby, Aaron 164
Manly, C.M. 320
Mannes, Leopold 735
Mansart, François 884
Mansfield 208
Marconi, Guglielmo 726
Marcus, Siegfried 449, 454
Marey, Etienne Jules 740, 741
Marggraf, Andreas 801
Margraff 92
Maritz 396
Marsh (slotmeter) 209
Marsh, A.L. 125, 917
Marsh, Sylvester 584
Martel, Charles 972
Martin, C. 837
Martin, Emil and Pierre 172
Martius, Carl Alexander 202
Martyn, Sir Richard 83
Masaru, Inoue 577
Masing 124
Massey 545
Mathieu, Albert 470
Matther, William 114
Mattucci, Felice 305
Mauchly, John 702
Maudslay, Henry 29, 30, 395, 397–8, 404
Maughan, Benjamin Waddy 919
Mawson, John 366
Maxim, Hiram 365, 368, 621, 925, 986

Maxwell, James Clerk 725, 735
Maybach, Wilhelm 310, 311, 451, 454
Mège-Mouriez, Hippolyte 190, 799
Meikle, Andrew 256, 267, 784
Meissonier (mining engineer) 104
Meissonier, Jean-Louis-Ernest 740
Meitens, Auguste de 418
Meitner, Lisa 214
Melan, Joseph 466
Mellon, Andrew 108
Mellor, Samuel 113
Menabrea, Luigi 701
Mendeleev, Dimitri 213
Mengoni 896
Menneson, Marcel 421
Mercer, John 849
Merensky, Hans 132
Mergenthaler, Ottmar 680
Merica, Paul 99, 122
Merle, Henri 103
Merritt, William Hamilton 507
Messel, Rudolf 223
Mestral, George de 852
Metcalfe, John 433–4
Meusnier, General J.B.M. 614
Meyer, Lothan 213
Michaux, Pierre 445
Michelangelo 881
Midgley, Thomas 317
Mignet, Henri 645

Millar, Robert 843–4
Minié, Captain 983
Moissan, Henri 112, 135, 141
Mole, de 993
Moller, Anton 820
Mond, Ludwig 100, 222
Monell, Ambrose 101
Monier, Joseph 466, 890
Monroe 1004
INDEX OF NAMES
1027
Montferrand 894
Montgolfier brothers 287, 609–10, 611, 614
Moore, Hiram 785–6
Moore, Richard F. 415
Moorhead, General 513
Moray, Samuel 454
Morewood, Edmund 95
Morice, Peter 234, 951
Morin, Paul 112
Morland, Sir Samuel 3, 33
Morris, Sir William 452
Morrison, Warren 696
Morrison, William Murray 112
Morse, Samuel F.B. 714, 965
Morton, James 203
Morveau, L. 102
Moschel, Wilhelm 115, 116
Moss, S.A. 315
Mosselman, Dominique 93

Moule, Revd Henry 922
Moxon, Joseph 673
Müller, Paul 776
Müller, Wilhelm 242
Muller-Breslau, Professor 617
Mummer, Jacob 84
Murchland 792
Murdock, William 40, 161, 208–209, 227, 403,
441, 957
Murray, Alexander 682
Murray, Matthew 399, 403–404, 559, 841
Mushet, R.F. 172, 174
Muspratt, James 221, 222
Muybridge, Edweard 739–41
Myddelton, Sir Hugh 951

Nadar 733
Nagelmackers, Georges 578, 579
Napier, David 677
Napier, John 698
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French 93, 102,
487
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French 103, 533
Nash, John 871, 886, 894
Nasmyth, James 398, 401, 406
Natrus 251
Need, Samuel 829
Neilson, J.B. 162
Neri, Antonio 187
Nero, Emperor of Rome 501

Nervi, Pier Luigi 882, 885, 892
Netto, Professor 105, 108
Neumann, John von 702
Newcomen, Thomas 3, 33, 155, 207, 273, 275
Newman, Larry 613
Niepce, Nicéphore 419, 731–2
Nipkow, Paul 744
Nobel (the elder) 996
Nobel, Alfred 190, 223, 988
Noble, James 840
Noiré 666
North, Revd C.H. 461
North, Simeon 405, 408
Northrop, J.H. 844
Norton, Charles 413
Norton, W.P. 412
Notman, William 733
Nuffield, Lord 452
Nuys, van 418

Oberth, Hermann 649, 747
Obry, Ludwig 997
Oechehäuser, W. von 324
Oersted, Hans Christian 102, 355, 377
Ogilvy, John 461
Ohain, Hans von 39, 333, 635
Olds, Ransome E. 37, 413
Osborne, Adam 707
Otis, Elisha Graves 897
Otis, William 470

Otto, Nikolaus A. 306–307, 454
Oughtred, William 698
Outram, Benjamin 556
Owen, Robert 832
Owens, Michael 198

Paabo, Max 845
Page, Charles 380, 718
Paget, A. 847
Paixhans, General 533
Palladio, Andreas 463
Palladius 781
Palmer, Charles Mark 529
Palmer, H.R. 586
Palmer, Jean Laurent 417
Palmer, John 438
Papin, Denis 3, 33, 273, 527, 945
Paracelsus 80
Paris, J.A. 739
Parker, James 888, 889
Parker, John Joseph 668
Parkes, Alexander 217
Parkhurst, Edward G. 408, 410
Parry, G. 163
Parseval, Major von 612
Parsons, C.A. 3, 37, 290–91
Parsons, John 422
Pascal, Blaise 33, 699
Pasley, Colonel Charles W. 466
Pasteur, Louis 793

Pathé, Charles 742
Patten, Thomas 90, 91
Paul, Lewis 824–5, 828, 830
Paul, R.J. 375
Paul, Robert 742
INDEX OF NAMES
1028
Pauly, Samuel 984
Paxton, Sir Joseph 895
Pechiney, Alfred Rangod 103, 109
Pegler, Alan 606
Pennington, E.J. 993
Pennington, William 830
Perkin, William Henry 190, 201–202
Perkins, Jacob 286, 287
Perry, John 375, 376
Peter, Peregrinus 350
Pfleumer 722
Pherecrates 71
Philippe, Adrien 696
Phillips, Robert 434
Phillips, W.H. 641
Phips 553
Picard 418
Piccard, Auguste 553, 613
Pickard, James 276
Picolpasso 192
Pidgeon, M. 120
Piercey, B.J. 127
Pierpoint, Colonel 460

Pilcher 39
Pilkington, Dr 197
Pilkington, Sir Alastair 198
Pistor, Gustav 115, 116, 119
Pixii, Hippolyte 356–7
Planté, Raimond Louis Gaston 353
Plateau, J.A. 739
Pliny the Elder 75, 187, 350, 672, 781, 796
Plumier 393, 394
Polhem, Christopher 237, 395, 501
Poliakoff, Joseph 722
Polk, Willis 900
Polly 251
Polo, Marco 19, 27, 77
Poncelet, J.V. 242
Poniatoff, Alexander M. 751
Ponton d’Amecourt, Vicomte 641
Porsche, Ferdinand 452
Porter, C.T. 283–4
Pouillet, Claude-Servain 374
Poulsen, Valdemar 722
Praed, William 479
Praetorius 123
Pratt, Caleb 463
Pratt, Francis 406
Pratt, Samuel 907
Pratt, Thomas 463
Preece, Sir William 368
Prélat 984
Prévost, M. 627

Priess 123
Priestley, Joseph 216
Priestman, William D. 310, 454
Pritchard, Thomas Farnolls 893
Prokhorov, A.M. 737, 738
Prony, Gaspard Riche, Baron de 699
Pugh 426
Pullman, George Mortimer 577
Pullman, John 369
Pulski, François von 5
Pulson, Sven 408
Pythagoras 717

Radcliffe, William 843
Rainey, Paul M. 749
Ramelli 265
Ramsbottom, John 175
Ramsden, Jesse 394, 411
Ransome (grinding wheel) 408
Ransome, Frederick 889
Ransome, Robert 771
Rateau, Auguste 291, 315, 316
Ravenscroft, George 196–7
Rawcliffe, G.H. 384
Reason, Richard 415, 423
Reeves, Alec H. 749
Regelsburger 123
Régnier 823
Rehe 396
Reis, Philip 718

Renard, Charles 614
Rennie, John 480, 481, 552
Reynaud, Emile 739
Reynold, Han 414
Reynolds, E.T. 285
Reynolds, Richard 161
Ricardo, H.R. 316, 317, 322
Richmann, Georg Wilhelm 350
Rickman 894
Ridley, John 781
Riggenbach, Niklaus 584
Riley, James 98
Rippon, Walter 438
Riquet, Pierre 484, 485
Ritchie, S.J. 99
Rites, F.M. 284
Robert, Marie Noel 610
Robert, Nicolas Louis 674
Roberts (welding) 418
Roberts, David 472
Roberts, Richard 398, 399, 400, 838, 844
Robia, Albert 744
Robinson, George 833
Robinson, Thomas 941
Roche (architect) 897
Roche, Tiphaigne de la 730
Roe, A.V. 626
Roe, Charles 90, 91
Roebling, John 465
Roebling, Washinton A. 465

Roebuck, John 222, 275
INDEX OF NAMES
1029
Rogallo, Francis Melvin 646
Roger, Emile 451
Rogers, Bryant 705
Rogers, George 96
Rogerson 929
Roget, P.M. 739
Rohn, W. 124, 125
Rolls, Hon. Charles S. 452
Rolt, L.T.C. 516
Romershausen 718
Rondelet 890
Röntgen, Wilhelm 725–6
Root, Elisha K. 406
Roper, William 406
Roscoe, Henry 113
Rose, H. 104, 108
Rosenberg, Augustus 723
Rosing, Boris 744
Rowland, W.R. 456
Royce, Henry 452
Rozier, Pilâtre de 610
Ruffle, Richard 258
Ruisdael, Jacob van 248
Rustichello of Pisa 19
Rutherford, Ernest 213, 1005
Rutt, William 677

Sabatier 190
Saint-Victor, Niepce de 733
Salomans, Sir David 451
Salt, Sir Titus 894
Samain, Jacques 751
Samuda brothers 570
Sanders, Thomas 719
Santos-Dumont, Alberto 615, 645
Sanz, M.C. 419
Sargon, King of Assyria 57, 768
Sarnoff, David 745
Sauerbronn, Baron Karl Drais von 442
Saulnier, Raymond 625
Savery, Thomas 3, 33, 273, 275
Schawlow, Arthur L. 419, 737, 738
Scheele, Carl Wilhelm 205
Scherkel, Baron Hanno von 538–9
Scheutz, Edvard and Georg 701
Schickhardt, Wilhelm 699
Schiøler 230
Schliemann, Heinrich 62
Schmeisser, Hugo 1004–1005
Schmidt, Wilhelm 590
Schöffer, Peter 27, 670
Schönbein, Christian Friedrich 217, 223
Schröter 135
Schrotter, Anton von 912
Schuckert 375
Schultz, Christopher 82–3
Schultz, Johann Heinrich 729

Schwarz, David 615
Scott, H. 122
Scott de Martinville, Leon 720, 721
Seaward, James 398
Seger, H. 195
Seguin, A. 627
Seguin, Marc 561
Sejournet 126
Semon, W.L. 219
Senefelder, Johann Alois 678
Senlecq, Constantin 744
Senot 395
Seppings, Sir Robert 524
Seurat, Georges 743
Seward 115, 117
Shannon, Claude E. 701, 703, 749–50
Shaw, William Thomas 739
Shepard, Alan 652
Shield, Dr 792
Shillibeer, George 458
Shipman, M.D. 852
Shockley, William 42, 703
Sholes, Christopher Latham 682
Short, Horace 613
Shrapnel, General Sir Henry 986
Sickels, F.E. 282
Siebe, Augustus 553
Siemens, C.W. 171–2, 176, 198, 359
Siemens, Werner von 457, 584–5, 959
Siemens, Sir William 369

Sigsfeld, Captain von 612
Sikorsky, Igor 628, 643
Silliman, Benjamin, jun. 211
Simms, F.R. 993
Simonson, Vedel 4
Simpson, Gerald 230
Simpson, James 953
Sinclair, Sir Clive 458–9, 697
Singer, Isaac Merritt 848, 851
Skaupy, F. 138
Skinner, H. 846
Skola 823
Slavianoff, N.G. 418
Small, James 770
Smalley, John 829
Smeaton, John 236–7, 255, 258, 265, 397, 478,
888
Smirke, Sydney 896
Smith, Charles Shaler 464
Smith, Ciceri 417
Smith, Francis Pettit 528
Smith, J. 836
Smith, Willoughby 744
Snodgrass (textile engineer) 835
Snodgrass, Gabriel 523–4
Soane, Sir John 871, 894
Sobrero, Ascanio 988
INDEX OF NAMES
1030
Soddy, Frederick 213

Soemmerring, S.T. von 714
Solomon, King of Israel 52
Solvay, Alfred and Ernest 222
Sonstadt, Edward 113–14, 117
Sorel 95
Sorocold, George 234–5
Soufflot 894
Soyer, Alexis 210, 942
Spaichel 390
Spangler, J. Murray 927
Spencer, Christopher Miner 410
Spode, Josiah 194
Spooner, C.E. 575
Sprague, Frank J. 381
Staite, W.E. 418, 914
Stampfer, Simon von 739
Stanford, Leland 739–40
Stanhope, Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl of 674, 676
Stanley, Robert 101
Staudinger, Hermann P. 218
Stearn, C.H. 368
Steers, William 477
Stephens, Henry 669
Stephenson, George 35, 560–61, 563, 565
Stephenson, John 456
Stephenson, Robert 35, 463, 465, 505, 560,
561, 562, 565, 566, 568, 895
Stibitz, George R. 702
Stifel, Michael 698
Stirling, Robert 342

Stock, A. 123
Stolze, F. 332
Stone, Henry D. 406
Strabo 69, 74, 76
Strachey, Christopher 704
Strada, Flaminianus 710
Strassman, F. 214, 1005
Stratingh, Sibrandus 378
Strato 273
Stringfellow, John 29, 620
Strutt, Jedediah 266, 819, 829, 835
Stuart, Herbert Ackroyd 310, 454
Stumpf, J. 287
Sturgeon, William 357, 377
Su Sung 694
Sullivan, Louis H. 897
Sundback, Gideon 852
Svaty, Vladimir 845
Swan, Joseph William 41, 353, 365–7, 368,
849, 915, 959
Swedenborg, Emanuel 86
Symington, William 35, 441, 527
Szilard, Leo 1005

Tacitus 72
Tafur, Pero 427
Tainter, Charles 721, 722
Talbert, David 705
Taylor, A.H. 729
Taylor, Frederick W. 412

Taylor, W.H. 378
Taylor, William 415
Telford, Thomas 434–5, 436, 478, 480, 509
Tennant, Charles 205, 221, 835
Tennant, Smithson 131
Tereshkova, Valentina 652
Tesla, Nikola 383, 925
Thales of Miletus 350
Themistocles 71
Thenard, Louis Jacques 95, 205
Theophilus of Essen 65, 68, 81, 196
Theopompus 74, 76
Thimmonier, Barthelemy 851
Thom, Robert 241, 952
Thomas, P.G. 170–71
Thomas, William 851
Thomsen, Christian Jurgensen 4
Thomson, Alfred 371
Thomson, Elihu 376, 384, 418
Thomson, J.J. 213, 725
Thomson, James 243, 244
Thomson, John L. 100
Thomson, Sir William 368–9, 373 see also
Kelvin, Lord
Thompson, A. 840
Thompson, Benjamin 558
Thompson, General John T. 1005
Thompson, R.W. 449
Thonnelier 28
Thornley, David 829

Thorp 209
Thuesen, H.G. 461
Thurland, Thomas 82
Thwaite, B.H. 314
Titt, John Wallis 259
Tizard, Sir Henry 729
Todd, T.J. 287
Topham, Fred 368
Torricelli, Evangelista 32, 273
Town, Ithiel 463
Townes, Charles H. 419, 737, 738
Townsend, M. 847
Train, G.F. 456, 583
Trappen, Dr von 992
Treadwell, Daniel 677
Trésaguet, Pierre J.M. 434
Trevithick, R.F. 577
Trevithick, Richard 35, 277, 278, 280, 441–2,
469, 558–9, 589
Trewey 742
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin 649
Tull, Jethro 774
Turing, Alan M. 422, 701, 703
INDEX OF NAMES
1031
Turner, Richard 895
Turner family (brass-makers) 91
Türr, Colonel Istvan 501
Tuve, Merle A. 729
Twiss, Captain William 506

Twyford 922
Tyer, Edward 581

Uhlhorn, Diedrich 28
Umbleby 325

Vail, Alfred 715
Van Arkell 141
Vauban, Sebastian de 486, 982–3
Vaucanson, Jacques de 395, 409, 823
Vauclain, Samuel 582
Vazie, Robert 469
Verbruggen, Jan 396
Vermuyden, Cornelius 250
Verne, Jules 747
Vernier, Pierre 25
Verrazzano, Giovanni 48
Versnyder, F.L. 127
Vicat, Louis J. 888–9
Victoria, Queen 201, 808
Vignoles, Charles 561
Villette, Professor 92
Villinger, Franz 646
Vitruvius 16, 17, 19, 230, 864, 918
Vivian, A.C. 123
Vivian, Andrew 441
Voisin brothers 624
Volk, Magnus 584
Volta, Alessandro 41, 94, 351–2

Wade, General George 434, 963
Waghenaer, Lucas 546
Waidner, C.W. 141
Walker, Charles Ludlow 92
Walker, John 912
Wallace, William 367
Wallop, Sir Henry 82
Walschaert, Egide 575
Waltenberg, R.G. 122
Walter, T.U. 894
Walton, Frederick 905
Wankel, Felix 326, 328, 455
Ward, Joshua 221
Wark, David 885
Warren, James 463
Wasbrough, Matthew 276
Washington, George 510
Waterhouse, Alfred 871
Watson, Dr 88
Watson, Bishop Richard 95
Watson-Watt, Sir Robert 219, 7
29, 999
Watt, James 31, 33, 155, 156, 209,
275–6, 277, 290, 325, 397, 398, 683, 833,
835
Wayland the Smith 128–9
Wayne, Gabriel 84
Webb, F.W. 582
Weber, J. 737
Weber, Wilhelm 374

Webster, James Fern 105
Wedgwood, Josiah 193
Wedgwood, Ralph 683
Wedgwood, Tom 731
Weldon, Walter 205, 222
Wellington, Arthur, 1st Duke of 853
Welsbach, Carl Auer von 123, 132, 209, 914,
958
Werner, Eugène and Michel 448
Westinghouse, George 580, 960
Weston 375
Wetschgi, Emanuel 393
Wheatstone, Sir Charles 41, 357, 358, 375, 377,
380, 384, 572, 714, 715, 735, 965
Wheeler 214
Whinfield, J.R. 219, 850
Whipple, Squire 463
White, Canvass 466
White, William 114
Whitehead, Robert 997
Whitelaw, James 243
Whitney, Amos 406
Whitney, Eli 29–30, 405, 834, 983
Whittle, Frank 39, 333, 336, 635
Whitworth, Joseph 398, 401, 406, 411
Widlar, Robert 705
Wikander 230
Wilbrand 988
Wilkes, M.V. 703
Wilkie, Leighton A. 418

Wilkinson, David 395
Wilkinson, John 155–6, 276, 397, 528
Wilkinson, William B. 890
Williams, Sir Edward Leader 482
Williams, F.C. 703
Williams, S.B. 702
Williams, Thomas 90–91
Williamson, D.T.N. 425
Wilm, Alfred 122
Wilson, Robert 401
Wimshurst, James 351
Winsor, Frederic Albert 40, 209, 958
Winzen, Otto 613
Winzer, Frederick see Winsor, Frederic Albert
Wirth, Niklaus 706
Wise, John 611
Woelfert, Karl 615
Wöhler, Friedrich 102–103, 105, 107
Wollaston, William Hyde 131–2