INDEX
TO THE
CENTURY OF INVENTIONS.
A.
Advantageous change of centres, [452]–[456].
Æolipile, fire-blowing, [542], [543].
Alarm for locks, [501].
Anchor, to weigh up, [405], [406].
Antiquities, military, [473], [474].
Approaching blind, an, [432].
Arago, M., noticed, [369], [372].
Arithmetical instrument. [512].
Arquebuse, [466]; à Croc, [466]; noticed, [474].
Artificial fountain, [413], [414]; river, [419]; bird, [440]; ring horse, [524].
Ashmole’s Museum at Oxford, [356].
Aubrey, Mr., “a professed virtuoso,” [352].
Authors, old scientific, enumerated, [359].
B.
Bacon, Lord, notice of, [345].
Bacon, Roger, his invention, [357].
Balance water-work, [415], [416], [417].
Balfour, Sir William, note, [452].
Ball, Mr., “another virtuoso,” [352].
Ball, a hour water, [443], [444].
Bate, John, his “Mysteries of Nature and Art,” a favourite work, [359]; his style and the Marquis’s compared, [361]; raises water, [479], [480]; weather glass, [546]; on filling Æolipiles, [480]; notices “condensation,” [480]; his use of the technical term “force,” [483], [484].
Bells, discourse by. [449].
Bird, an artificial flying, [440]–[443], [516].
Blind, an approaching, [432].
Blunderbuss, or Musketoon, [473]; noticed, [474].
Boat driving against wind and tide, a, [407]–[411].
Boats, patent paddle, [410], [411].
Bogaerts, Peter, his canal lock, [419].
Bourne, William, on “shooting in great ordnaunce,” [400].
Boyle, Hon. Robert, entrusted with the secret of Papin’s fountain, [351].
Boxes of a cabinet, to lock, [510]; dicing box, [521], [522].
Bracelet alphabet, [435].
Bradley, R., mentions “the late Mr. Savery,” [487]; account of his engine, [487].
Branca, his steam jet, [479].
Brazen head, [346]; a brazen or stone, [515]–[520].
Bridge, a portable, [428]–[429].
Browne’s calculating Serpentine scale, [512].
Buckets, to raise water, [415]–[418]; two buckets, [416]–[418].
Bucket-fountain, a, [417], [418].
Bulwark, a rising, [430], [432].
Bumbasses and bullets, to shoot, [421].
C.
Candles, a brass mould for, [514], [515].
Cannon, tried before Charles I., [467], [468]; improvements in, [468]; extraordinary, [469]; various, [469]; experiments at Woolwich, 1651, [469]; to charge fifty, [472].
Cannon, “to level by night,” [400]; Bishop Wilkins’ remarks, [422], [423]; burst by water, [475]; charged with water, [481], [482].
Carabines, often discharging, [463]; particulars of, [466]; noticed, [474].
Caus, Salomon de, notice of, [369], [370], [372], [542]; his work, [476]; fountain and description, [476], [477], [478]; comment on, [478], [479].
Century of Inventions, its name, [345]; MS. copy, [346]; the MS. and first edition, [347]; title pages, [347]; why misunderstood, [350]; nature of articles therein, [353]; as a literary work, [358]; its value, [358]; variations on its title, [358]; verbal peculiarities, [360]; its practical tendency, [361]; its author’s object, [361]; its form, [362]; similar early statements, [362]; its style accords with the legal form in use for patent specifications, [363]; agreement between the “Century” and the Marquis’s patent, [363], [364]; classical scholars have misapprehended the work, [366]; its suggestive character, [367]; a greater work intended, [367]; conflicting opinions, [367]; how to be viewed and estimated, [368]; the modern steam engine owes its origin to the Marquis and his work, [369]; Mr. Muirhead’s false estimate of this production and its author’s invention, [371]; it stands alone, [373]; various editions, [374], [375]; reprints in other works, [375]; fac-simile title page (except the frame work), [377]; dedication to Charles I., [379]; Dedication to the Houses of Parliament, [381]; acknowledges the Act for his engine, [383]; mentions the sacrifice of £700,000, [383]; Kaltoff, [383]; its author’s prolific invention, [384]; alludes to fees, [385]; and his “Golden Age,” [385]; rarity of the first edition, [497]; a postscript, note, [535], [536].
Century. first edition, [346]; last edition, [346]; its unreliable character, [347].
Chair, an imprisoning, [513].
Character, a universal, [433].
Charles II. had a curiously contrived box from the Marquis, [356].
Cipher and character, [391]; a one-line cipher, [391]; the same refined, [392]; reduced to a point, [393]; varied significally to all the 24 letters, [394]; key to the Marquis’s cipher discovered, [552].
Claudius, of Rome, his Bucket fountain, [416].
Coach-saving Engine, [414], [415].
Conceited tinder-box, [439].
Condensation applied to ebbing and flowing, [419]–[421]; applied to drawing weights, [423]–[425]; applied to draught, [427], [428]; applied to two globes, [456]–[462]; noticed by J. Bate, [480].
Continually going watch, [508].
Conveyance, a secret comb, [511]; knife, spoon, or fork, [511]
Crock, [466]; Arquebuse à, [466].
Cross-bow, noticed, [474]; a double, [528].
D.
Dark, to write in the, [503].
Decks, false destroying, [405].
Dee, Dr. John, his preface to Euclid, [361].
Definition of the Engine, [496], [549], [550].
Desaguliers, Dr., on automata, [443]; on perpetual motion, [452], [453]; account of Savery’s engine, [488]–[490]; charge against Savery, [489].
Dice, cheating at, [522], [524].
Dicing box, [521], [522], [524].
Discourse, mute and perfect, by colours, [399]; by night, [399].
Door, opening either way, [502]; a conceited, [503].
Doors, a pocket engine to open, [527].
Double drawing engine for weights, [423].
Double water-screw, [451]; cross-bow, [528].
Drebell, Cornelius, noticed, [402], [403].
E.
Ebbing and flowing river, [419]; castle-clock, [420], [421]; applied to two globes, [456]–[462].
Engine, portable in one’s pocket, [400]; ship destroying, [401]; to drive and fasten to ships, [401]; for cannon, [468]; a semi-omnipotent, [529]–[531].
Engine, a stamping, [520]; a gravel, [525]; a ship-raising, [526]; a pocket, to open doors, [527].
Escutcheon for locks, [500].
Etten, Van, describes a fountain, [481]; recommends heat, [481]; cannon, [481], [482].
Evelyn, John, his Diary, [351]; his “boscoresque” grounds, [352].
F.
False destroying decks, [405].
Fire-arrow, to shoot, [465].
Flamstead, John, astronomer, [352].
Flask-charger, [463]; powder, noticed, [474].
Fleet, to destroy a, [402].
Force, as a technical term, explained, [483], [484].
Fountain, artificial, [413], [414]; De Caus, [477].
Fringe-alphabet, [435].
Fulton, Robert, noticed, [404].
G.
Garden, a floating, [412], [413]; a river in, [419].
Gallery, a transmittible, [502].
Gloucester, moveable bulwark at the siege of, [431].
Glove-alphabet, pincked, [435]; primero gloves, [521].
Gradation, rule of, [448], [449].
Gravel engine, [525].
Grew, Dr., his discourse, [365].
Guilford, Baron, Life of, [351]; was “no concealed virtuoso,” [351]; declines being proposed for the Royal Society, [352]; his acquaintances, [352]; visits Sir S. Morland, [353].
Guns to shoot often, remark on, [472].
H.
Hallam, learning during the Middle Ages, [345].
Harleian MSS., [346]; cipher, [394].
Harquebus, particulars of, [466]; for expeditious shooting, [466]; à crock, [466].
Head, a brazen or stone, [515]–[520].
Herbert, Lord, son of the Duke of Beaufort, his letter, [350].
Hoel, M., his hydraulic engine, [414].
Hollowing on a water-screw, [450], [553].
Hook, Dr., examines Papin’s fountain, [351]; had seen the Marquis’s engine, [493].
Horse, artificial ring, [524].
Hour-glass fountain, [413], [414].
Hour water-ball, [444].
Hume, David, criticises the “Century,” [349].
I.
Imprisoning chair, [513]; one at Rome, [514].
Instrument, an arithmetical, [512]; for perspective, [529].
Invention, nature and progress of, [366].
Inventions, estimated number in the “Century,” [353], [354]; classified, [354]; “tried and perfected,” [355]; short list of, [357]; a series of early, [362]; early patented, [363]; the Marquis’s “quintessence of,” [555].
Inventors, early, statements of Inventions, [362].
K.
Kaltoff, Caspar, the Marquis’s faithful workman, [359]; his death, 1664–5, [537]; noticed, [538]; various notices of him and his family at Vauxhall, [574].
Kneffler, or Knuffler, Dr., noticed, [403].
Knotted string alphabet, [435].
Key, a triangle, [499]; a rose, [500]; a square, [500].
L.
Ladder, portable scaling, [445]–[448].
Lambert, William, his petition respecting Vauxhall, [537].
Lanthorn-alphabet, [435].
Letters secretly conveyed in a comb, [511]; in a knife, spoon, or fork, [511].
Lever, a to and fro, [425], [426].
Light pistol-barrels, [511].
Locking of Cabinet-boxes, [510].
Locks, an escutcheon for, [500]; an alarum for, [501]; ingenious and expensive, [501], [502].
Lotherdale, Earl of, the Marquis promises him a curious box, [356].
M.
Middle Ages, the, [345].
Military antiquities, [473], [474].
Mill, a rasping, [512]; a coining, [520].
Minyons, minion, cannon, [467].
Moor, Sir Jonas, mathematician, [352].
Morland, Sir Samuel, his house, coach, and several inventions, [353]; his patent for raising water from Mines (1661), [364], [365]; his arithmetical instrument, [512].
Mould for candles, [514], [515].
Muirhead, James P., M.A., his false estimate of the Marquis’s character, invention, and “Century,” in his “Life of James Watt,” [369]–[372]; his treatment of the subject, [370]; erroneous opinion of the inventions of De Caus and the Marquis of Worcester, [372].
Multiplied strength in little room, [406].
Musketoons, or blunderbuss, [473].
Muskets, often-discharging, [464]; short, [465]; particulars of, [466]; ancient use of, [474].
Musquetoons, oft-shooting, [472]; on horseback, [472].
Mute and perfect discourse by colours, [399]; by night, [399].
Mystical jangling of Bells, [449].
N.
Napier, Lord John, his secret inventions, [402].
Needle-Alphabet, [434].
Newcomen, noticed, [369].
O.
Often-discharging Pistol, [462]; Peards, [471]; Guns, [472].
Ordnance, ancient, [473].
P.
Papin, Dr., his fountain, [361]; experiments on steam, [498].
Patent for the Marquis’s clocks, guns, &c., [557].
Pattu, M., his water-screw, [451].
Pear, an untoothsome, [512].
Peards, oft shooting, [471].
Pepys, Samuel, his Diary, [351].
Perpetual Motion, [452]–[456].
Perpetual Motions in M. Servière’s cabinet, [350].
Perspective instrument, [529].
Petty, Sir William, his discourse, [365].
Pincked Glove alphabet, [435].
Pistol, oft-shooting, [462]; ancient use of, [473]; improved, [474]; light barrels, [511].
Pleasant floating garden, [413].
Pneumatic propulsion, [412].
Pocket Ladder, [447], [448]; engine to open doors, [527].
Point, a cipher reduced to a, [393].
Portable “pocket” engine, [400]; bridge, [428], [429]; fortification, [429]; engine, or ladder, [445]–[448].
Porta’s steam apparatus, [541].
Powder flask, noticed, [474].
Primero gloves, [521].
Q.
Quint-essence of motion, by the Marquis of Worcester, noticed, [357]; a statement of 9 inventions, [555], [556].
R.
Ramsey, D., raises water by fire, [479].
Rasping mill, [512].
Ribbon, a discourse woven in, [503].
River, in a garden, [418]; ebbing and flowing, [419].
Rollock, John, his verses allusive to condensation, [533]; his tract containing his panegyric, the Act, &c., [559].
Rome, an invention obtained there, [353]; “Claudius his studies at,” [416].
Royal Society, Transactions, [351]; Baron Guilford declines being proposed for, [352]; Sir W. Petty, and Dr. Grew, their discourses, [365]; Savery exhibits his model, [484]; “first appearance in the world” of Savery’s engine, [494].
Rule of gradation, [448], [449].
S.
Sakers, cannon, [467].
Savery, Thomas, noticed, [369]; note, [371]; model engine for raising water, [484], [485]; his “Miners Friend,” [485]; his description and the “Century” compared, [486], [487]; Bradley’s account, [487]; engine at Cambden House, [487]; Switzer’s account, [487], [488]; its discovery attributed to a tobacco-pipe, [488]; the same to a Florence flask, [489]; noticed by Dr. Desaguliers, [488]–[490]; accused of obtaining and destroying the Marquis’s books, [489]; this charge examined, [492], &c.; as an independent inventor, [497]; his career, [498].
Scantling explained, [348].
Scarioni, Francesco, his Centuria, [346].
Science, state of, to 1667, [348].
Screwed ascent of stairs, [445].
Sea-banks, to construct, [528], [529].
Sea-castle, or fortification, [411], [412].
Sea-sailing fort, [412].
Seals, [387], [388]; “abundantly significant,” [389]; a cipher seal, [389], [390]; private and particular to each owner, [391].
Secret conveyance for letters, in a comb, [511]; in a knife, spoon, or fork, [511].
Secreti, by Scarioni, [346].
Senses, alphabets by the, varied, [436].
Serpentine scale, Browne’s calculating, [512].
Servière, M., his cabinet, [350].
Ship-destroying engine, [401].
Ship-raising engine, [526].
Ship, to safeguard any, [404]; an unsinkable, [404], [405]; false decks, [405]; anchor, to weigh up, [406]; driving against wind and tide, [407]; three ships, or a sea castle, [411]; ships’ muskets, [471].
Ship-musquets, to govern a whole side of, [471].
Short writing, expeditious way of (supposed to be the Marquis’s invention), [349]–[398]; authors on, [436]–[438].
Sieve alphabet, [435].
Smell, alphabet by, [435].
Spring, strength-increasing, [421].
Stairs, a screwed ascent of, [444], [445].
Stamping engine, [346], [520].
Steam Engine, notice of the first practical, [345]; historical notices of and wavering character of opinions respecting the Marquis of Worcester, [368]; progressive improvements, [368]; false estimate of the Marquis in the “Life of James Watt,” [369].
Steam, its power realized, [362].
Strength-increasing spring, [421].
Strength multiplied in little room, [406].
String alphabet, knotted, [435].
Stuart, Robert, contradicts himself, [370].
Submarine vessel, [402].
Switzer, S., his account of Savery’s engine, [487], [488].
T.
Tape or ribbon, a discourse woven in, [503].
Taste, alphabet by, [435].
Telegraph, electric, anticipated, [357].
Telegraphy, systems of, [399].
Tinder-box, a most conceited, [439].
Tobacco-tongs engine, [445], [446].
Touch, alphabet by, [435].
Town, for guarding several avenues to a, [472].
Tradescant, his museum, [356].
Transparent water-screw, [450].
Trithemius quoted, [393].
U.
Universal character, [432]–[434].
Untoothsome pear, [513].
V.
Vacuum, noticed by John Bate, [360].
Vauxhall Works, expense of, [358]; William Lambert’s petition in respect to, [537]; Marquis of Worcester’s engagements there in 1647, and earlier, [537], [538].
Venice, an invention obtained there, [353], [425].
Verstegan, on science in 1605, [349].
Vinci, Leonardo da, notice of, [345].
W.
Walpole, Horace, criticises the “Century,” [348], [349]; groundless censure, [523], [524].
Watch, a continually going, [508].
Water, to drive up by fire, [475]; heated in a cannon, [475]; Dr. Ramsey’s patent, [479]; raised by Bate, [479]; Van Etten applies heat, [481]; cannon experiment, [481], [482]; Savery’s model, to raise, [484], [485].
Water-screw, to make hollow, [450]; a transparent, [450]; a double, [451]; plan of construction, [552], [553].
Waterwork, a fire, [476]; “the most stupendious work in the whole world,” [533]–[535]; a stupendous, [536].
Water-works, noticed by John Bate, [360]; the Marquis acknowledges the passing of the Act for, [383].
Watt, James, his engine, [369]; indebted to the influence of capital, [369]; false estimate of the Marquis in “The Life of,” [369]–[372].
Weights, to raise, [531]–[533].
Weld, Mr., his “knick-knack-atary,” [352].
Werden, Sir John, mathematician, [352].
Wheel, great weighted, [452]–[456].
Worcester, Marquis of, the Harleian MSS. not in his handwriting, [346]; his engine in the Century, [353]; estimated number of his inventions, [353], [354]; classified, [354]; his proposed work, [355]; special notices of practice, [355], [356]; silence of contemporaries, [356]; promises a box to the Earl of Lotherdale, [356]; a mysterious invention, [357]; his pecuniary position, [358]; expense of his works at Vauxhall, [358]; analogous inventions in old authors, [359]; enumerated, [359]; seems to have been attached to Bate’s Mysteries of Nature and Art, [359]; Water-works, noticed by Bate, [360]; acquainted with Dr. Dee’s preface to Euclid, [361]; styles of Bate and the Marquis compared, [361]; in search of powerful mechanical aids, [361]; realizes the power of steam, [362]; writes his “Century” similar to patent specifications, [363], [364]; his pre-eminent invention, [366]; wavering character of historical notices of his invention, [368]; false estimate of the Marquis’s personal character, his invention, and his “Century,” in the “Life of James Watt,” [369], [370], [371], [372]; his general character, his inventions, and his work, [373]; the modern steam engine owes its origin to the Marquis and his work, [369]; his engine at work, [370]; acknowledges the passing of the Act for his engine, [383]; mentions the sacrifice of £700,000, [383]; his “Golden Age,” [385]; his supposed invention of Short Writing, [394]; his cipher-written letter, [398]; a model of his semi-omnipotent engine to be buried with him, [530]; notice of his works at Vauxhall, 1647, [537], [538]; statement in his Act of Parliament, [539], [540]; construction of his engine, [551]; key to his cipher discovered, [553]; nine of his inventions, or quintessence of motion, [555]; his patent for clocks, &c., [557]; Rollock’s pamphlet, containing Act, &c., [559].
Write, to, in the dark, [503].