A Catechism of Familiar Things; / Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. / With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.

by Anonymous

• Sable, [74]
• Sago, [49]
  
  • palm, [50]
    
• Salt, [78], [79]
  
  • marine, [78]
    
  • rock, [78]
    
  • spring, [79]
    
• Saltpetre, [100]
• Saracens, [168]
• Scarlet, [138]
• Schools of painting, [184]
• Sciences, Arts and, [190]
• Sculpture, [160]
• Seal, an animal, [74]
• Senate, [147]
• Sesostris, [177]
• Seville orange, [62]
• Shoes, [72]
• Sicilians, [23]
• Sidon, [167]
• Silex, [153]
• Silicious earths, [152]
• Silk, [41], [45]
  
  • worm, [42]-[43]
    
• Silver, [119]
• Slate, [149]
• Snow, [16]
• Soap, [105]
• Soda, [105]
• Specific Weight, [202]
• Spectacles, [94]
• Spectrum, [208]
• Spermaceti, [106]
• Spinning-jenny, [30]
• Spirits of wine, [137]
• Sponge, [108]
• Starch, [133]
• Steam engine, [102]
  
  • navigation, [103]
    
• Steel, [150]
• Stethoscope, [204]
• Stereoscope, [209]
• Stereotyping, [212]
• Still, [137]
• Stockings, [71]
• Strata, [151]
• Suez Canal, [216]
• Sugar, [48]
  
  • candy, [49]
    
  • barley, [49]
    
  • maple, [49]
    
• Sulphur, [124]
• Sumatra, [66]
• Suspension Bridges, [217]

• Tallow, [106]
  
  • tree, [106]
    
• Tamarinds, [67]
• Tan, [73]
• Tapioca, [134]
• Tar, [139]
• Tasimeter, [206]
• Tasmania, [31]
• Tea, [25]
• Telegraph, [104], [213]
• Telephone, [204]
• Telescope, [101]
• Thebes, [43]
• Thermometer, [97]
• Thermo-Electricity, [211]
• Thibet Goat, [46]
• Thunder, [17]
• Tides, [201]
• Tin, [120]
• Tobacco, [91]
• Toddy, [34]
• Tortoise, [178]
• Tower, leaning of Pisa, [172]
• Troy, [177]
• Turpentine, [143]
• Turquois, [129]
• Tuscans, [182]
• Twilight, [21]
• Tyre, [167]

• United States Government, [147]

• Vapor, [14]
• Vellum, [60]
• Velvet, [45]
• Venice, [171]
• Venus, [171]
• Vine, [136]
• Vinegar, [138]
• Vitriol, [75]
• Volcanic formations, [152]
• Volcano, [154]
• Vulcanite, [108]

• Watches, [98]
• Water, [14]
  
  • melon, [67]
    
  • decomposition of by vegetables, [15]
    
  • tree, [88]
    
• Wax, [106]
• Weaving, [30-32]
• Whale, [66]
• Whitney, Eli, [218]
• Wieliczca, [80]
• Wind, [17]
• Windows, [54]
• Wine, [136]
• Woad, [139]
• Wood, Jethro, [218]
• Wood engraving, [130]
• Wool, [29-31]
• Writing, art of, [191]

• Yams, [85]

• Zinc, [84]
• Zoophytes, [108]

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