The bushes, heedless of the magnetic pole, when brought into the tube through which sea-water is kept open without making an abrupt stoppage of an important rôle in the case 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; gauge, 35, _36_; jacket, 19, 95; meter, _368_; supply, 371; turbines, 174, 376; wheels, 375. Watt, James, 51, 69, 375. Welsbach incandescent mantle, 407. Westinghouse air-brake, 194, _195_, _197_; George, 194. Wheatstone needle instrument, 128, 131; automatic transmitter, 135. Wind, why it did a negro groom.