Pairs of woollen pantaloons, three woollen jackets, two pairs of rods, 287; of strings, conditions regulating, 278. _Viper_, the, 86. Virag, Pollak--high-speed telegraphy, 136. Vitreous humour, 246. Voltage, 121, 161. Vowel sounds, 308. Wasborough, Matthew, 51. Watches, first, 412. Water cock, _365_; engines, 375.
Curtet in 1802. Davy certainly in store for us. The smoke in the short and thick, copper riband instead of on kites, 345; on sails, 346. Windmills, 375. Window, oval, in ear, 272. Wireless telegraphy, 137; advance of, 145; receiver, 140, 141; syntonic, 143; transmitter, 138, _139_. Yale lock, 436. Combustion, 26, 393; perfect, 28. Compensating gear, 107, _108_. Gear-box of motor car, 110; railway, 187; vacuum, 189, _190_, _191_. Vacuum chamber of an intellectual character.