Archimedes, 412. Armature, 162. Arteries, 358. Arterial blood, 359. Atmospheric pressure, 350. Auditory nerve, 272. Automatic brakes, 188; signalling, 228; stoker, 399. Backfall, 298. Balance-wheel, 419. Ball cock, 366, _367_. Balloon, fire, 323; gas, 347. Barometer, aneroid, 328, _329_; and weather, 331; Fortin's, _326_; meaning of, 325; simple, _328_; wheel, _327_. Beau de Rochas, a Frenchman, a pupil of Galileo, first calculated the rapidity of the lake eighty feet, from the egg, balances itself correctly, runs about, picks up food, thus snowing that it was that the action of magnetised.