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Alchemists, The Last of the[110]
Alpine Perils—Professor Forbes on[30]
Amber an Article of International Trade[66]
Amsterdam Pile, The[150]
Antiquity of Lightning Conductors[67]
Antiquity of Refined Sugar[87]
Arkwright's Spinning Frame[128]
Art of Stereotype, The[105]
Artesian Well of Grenelle, The[132]
Ascent of the Jungfrau Alp, by Forbes, &c.[44]
Astronomical Shoemaker, An[51]
Babbage's Calculating Machine[59]
Balloon Travelling, Rate of[103]
Balloon Voyage from London to Nassau[86]
Banks', Sir Joseph, Balance[37]
Benefit of a Wife to an Author[40]
Black, Dr., The Death of[133]
Brindley the Engineer[43]
Brongniart's Early Life[33]
Brougham's, Lord, Scientific Blunders[90]
Buckingham Palace Gates[37]
Burning Mirrors of Archimedes, The[140]
Carnot when a Child[23]
Catching Electric Eels[74]
Character of Engineers in their Works[43]
Clearness of the Sky at the Cape of Good Hope[88]
Coal Gas in Balloons, Use of[21]
Cocoa-Nut Crab, The[50]
Coffee-Tree, Transportation of the[127]
Columbus' own Ship-Journal[70]
Crawshays of Merthyr Tydvil, The[15]
Cuvier and Napoleon[21]
Cuvier, Childhood of[25]
Cuvier, Homage to[14]
Cuvier in London[39]
Davy, Sir Humphry, Death of[13]
Davy, Sir Humphry, as an Angler[93]
Deaf, The, How they may Hear[68]
Decline of Science, The[52]
Dee, Dr., The Necromancer[117]
Descartes' "Wooden Daughter"[51]
Descent in a Diving-Bell, A[92]
Diamonds, Celebrated[114]
Discoveries Anticipated[54]
Diving-Bell, First Use of the[103]
Drummond Light, The[62]
Drying Wood for Violins[69]
Drymaking in Holland, A[137]
Early Incitements (Humboldt's) to Study of Nature[72]
Earthquakes, in Chile[38]
Earthquakes, How to Measure[62]
Electricity, The Velocity of[155]
Electrifying Machine in Persia, An[60]
El Dorado of Sir Walter Raleigh[65]
Elgin Marbles, The[58]
Experiments with an Electric Eel[79]
False Anticipations of Railway Speed[14]
Faraday as a Lecturer[88]
Female Mathematician, A French[56]
Ferguson, The Wife of James[92]
Fire-proof House on Putney Heath[109]
"Fossil Rain"[104]
Fourdrinier's Paper-making Machinery[48]
Fourier's Independence[56]
Franklin's Discoveries[22]
Gold in Siberia[83]
Gutta-percha, Discovery of[20]
Herschel's Love of Music[59]
Herschel, his First Telescope[75]
Herschel, his Sister[94]
Holding a "Craw's Court"[30]
Hyena, A Tame[107]
India Rubber 150 Years Since[85]
Indian Jugglers' Secret, The[105]
Invention of Gun Cotton[35]
Invention of the Diving-Bell[78]
Invention of the Hand Gear[130]
Invisible Despatch, The[107]
Jesuit's Bark, The First Use of[51]
Kaleidoscope, Combinations of the[84]
Kaleidoscope, Sir D. Brewster's[120]
Kaleidoscope, The First[91]
Leaning Tower of Pisa, The[29]
Leibnitz's Last Moments[21]
Lifting Heavy Persons[124]
Lighthouses, Reflecting, The Origin of[123]
Lion Eaten as Food, The[101]
Lithography, The Discovery of[159]
London as a Port[48]
Longevity of the Beetle[102]
Magnetic Correspondence in the 17th Century[142]
Mariner's Compass, The[156]
Marvels of the Alchemists[129]
"Means to the End," The[84]
Mechanical Triumphs[57]
Monochromatic Painting[156]
Moon Seen through Lord Rosse's Telescope, The[101]
Mythology of Science, The[64]
Navigation before the Compass[144]
Necessity the Mother of Invention[136]
Newton's Finger-Magnet[20]
Nice Robbery, A[55]
Observatory, Ancient, in Persia[47]
Old St. Paul's, A Wrench to[146]
Origin of Post Paid Envelopes[42]
Ostrich, Enemies of the[108]
Parachute Descent, A Safe[104]
Pascal's Childhood[18]
Pascal, How He Weighed the Atmosphere[28]
Perils of Chemical Experiment[151]
Philosophical Enthusiasm[31]
Poetic Prophecies of Darwin and Milton[9]
Poker across the Fire, The[130]
Potato, Introduction of the, into France[88]
Power of the Lever[59]
Railway System Suggested, The[89]
"Raining Trees" at the Cape[106]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, a Chemist[58]
Rapid Manufacture of a Coat[54]
Reason for Silence, Fontaine's[44]
Rosse's, Lord, Telescope[121]
Rust, Protection by[100]
St. Pierre's "Paul and Virginia"[62]
Scientific Pilgrim, A[139]
Self-taught Mechanist, A[149]
Semaphore v. Electric Telegraph[146]
"Shepherd to the King of England for Scotland"[32]
Siberian Mammoth Remains, The[152]
Smeaton's Independence,[23]
Smeaton, his Reproof of Gaming[34]
Snow Spectacles of the Esquimaux[148]
Society of Arts, Origin of the[125]
Spinning Feats[128]
Steam-Gun in the 15th Century[46]
Strychnine a Remedy for Paralysis[54]
Sun, Total Eclipse of the, at Cuba,[102]
Sun, Vast Spot on the[12]
Talent and Opportunity[80]
Tea, Identity of Black and Green,[99]
Tea, The First Cup of, Drunk in England[40]
Tebreez, Variable Climate of[52]
Telegraph, Origin of the Electric[134]
Telescope, Invention of the[97]
Thames Tunnel, Construction of the[10]
Travelling Carriage, A Novel[108]
Travelling in the Himalaya Mountains[82]
Travels of Volcanic Dust[33]
Tropical Delights, Sydney Smith's[79]
Tycho Brahe, Credulity of[97]
Vast Mirrors Made in Russia[127]
Vicissitudes of Mining in Mexico[79]
Voyages of Manufactures[119]
Waste of Human Life[123]
Watch Melted by Lightning, A[105]
Watt's Discovery of the Composition of Water[26]
Weighing-Machine at the Bank of England[17]
"Wet the Ropes!"[131]
Whitebait, The Rights of[73]
Who First Doubled the Cape?[91]
Wonders of Australia, Sydney Smith on the[76]
World in a Drop of Water, The[42]