Makers of Electricity

by Brother Potamian; James J. Walsh

[36] The thimble was borrowed from Miss Fitzgerald, daughter of the Knight of Kerry, who was living at Valentia.

[37] Broken up a few years ago for scrap iron.

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[INDEX.]

A
Abbey, Westminster, [393]
Academical honors, [395]
Academy of Science, Royal, [202]
Action at a distance, [356]
Adams Prize, [339]
Addison, [215], [216]
Advancement of learning, [65]
Affinity, [70]
Agonic line, [22], [23]
Akenside, [216]
Albert the Great, [36]
Albertus Magnus, [70]
Alibert, [159]
Aldin, [141], [207]
Alfonso el Sabio, [8]
Almanack, Poor Richard's, [103]
Ampère, Jean Jacques, [233], [210], [232], [361]
Amperean currents, [214]
Amundsen, [30], [51]
Anaesthesia, [308]
Anaxagoras, [244]
Anatomy, Comparative, [136]
Ancients in the exact sciences, [1]
Anderson, [381]
Anelectrica, [70]
Animal electricity, [146], [149], [175], [205], [320]
Annus mirabilis, [86]
Apollonius, [244]
Arago, [177], [232], [243]
Archimedes, [1], [13], [139], [244], [213];
burning mirror, [14]
Architecture, [199]
Architectonics of metaphysics, [222]
Aristarchus of Samos, [53]
Aristotle, [52]
Arsinoe, Queen, [5]
Aspects of pain, [352]
Assisi, Poor little man of, [161]
Atheism, [160]
Atlantic Telegraph Co., [373]
Atoms, [355]
Attraction and repulsion, [197]
Auenbrugger, [274]
Autobiography of Franklin, [126]
Ayrton, [369]
B
Bacon, Chancellor, [13]
Bacon, Roger, [3], [10], [64]
Balance, Electric, [200]
Balancing of energies, [331]
Baltimore lecture, [395]
Barlowe, Wm., [40], [70], [326]
Barometer, [70]
Barrett, Father, [254]
Bassi, Laura, [154]
Battery, Voltaic, [206]
Bauernfeind, [292]
Baxter, Richard, [359]
Bear, Little, [24]
Bede, [54]
Beet sugar, [306]
Bembo, Cardinal, [215]
Bence Jones, [333]
Bernoulli, [236], [245], [348]
Bernoulli, Daniel, [280]
Bernoulli, Johann, [280]
Bertelli, [27]
Bertholinus, [147]
Berthollet, [224]
Beuve, Saint, [253]
Bevis, [95]
Biot, [198], [203], [224]
Birds' ears; kidneys; semi-circular canals, [137]
Boethius, [54]
Bolivar, [255]
Bond, [70]
Bose, [87]
Boyle, [70], [301]
Brewster, Sir David, [218]
Briggs, [50]
Bright, Sir Charles, [387]
Brook Taylor, [280]
Browne, Sir Thomas, [70]
Brugnatelli, Prof., [179]
Brunetto Latini, [9]
Buffon, [14], [99], [132]
Bunyan, [386]
Burning mirror, [14]
Byron, [328]
C
Cabanis, [246]
Cabeo, [3], [26], [73]
Cable, submarine, [362];
telegraph, [322]
Cabot, Sebastian, [23]
Calculus of variations, [245]
Canada balsam, [348]
Canals, Semi-circular, [348]
Canton, [91]
Carthesian ovals, [337]
Carminate, Prof., [141]
Cascade, [90]
Cassini, [26]
Cavallo, [26]
Cavendish, [93], [101], [173], [338];
Laboratory, [340]
Cayley, [364]
Cell, Gun-cap, [380]
Charles, Law of, [173], [224]
Chelonian, Complaisant, [52]
Chemical manipulation, [307]
Childe Harold, [328]
Christianity, [257]
Chrystal, [258]
Churchmen in Science, [162]
Cingari, [153]
Circle, Graduated, [19]
Circuit, [70]
Clark, Latimer, [218], [387]
Clausius, [348]
Clergymen Pioneers in Electricity, [162]
Clerk Maxwell, [32], [94], [324]
Clerk of Penicuik, [335]
Cluny, [8]
Coffin of Mahomet, [5]
Coleridge, [261], [328]
Collinson, Peter, [81]
Color vision, [345]
Columbian line, [23]
Columbus, [21], [23];
on electricity, [208]
Como, College of, [172]
Compass-card, [386];
variation of the, [25]
Concentration, [367]
Concourse of atoms, [394]
Conference of St. Vincent de Paul, [254]
Contributions to molecular physics, [285]
Copernicus, [54]
Copley medal, [284]
Coulomb, [84], [93], [188];
character, [203];
memoirs, [199]
Creator and Ruler, [394]
Creatures, [331]
Crookes, [86], [246]
Cumming, [70]
Cunatus, [87]
Current, Oscillatory, [206]
Curves, Rolling, [337]
Cuthberson, [361]
Cuvier, [252], [224]
Cynosure, [24]
D
Dante, [161]
Darwin, [227], [327], [351]
Davy, Sir Humphry, [303], [326]
Davy, [209], [306]
D'Alembert, [280]
D'Alibard, [99], [106]
De Causis et Sedibus Morborum, [167]
Declination, [21]
De Civitate Dei, [5]
Degrees and residence, [205]
De Heer, [284]
Dellman, [286]
De Magnete, [35]
De Mundo Nostro, [61]
De Mundo Nostro Sublunari, [63]
De Natura Rerum, [2]
De Romas, [107]
De Vi Attractiva, [170]
De Viribus Electricitatis, [141]
Development, Process of, [228]
Devotion, Life of, [231]
Dewar, [41]
Dickerson, William, [380]
Didactic lecture, [295]
Digby, Sir Kenelen, [40]
Dip-circle, [30]
Discoveries by accident, [311];
in science, [283];
new, [251];
practical, [213]
Disposer, Great, [332]
Divinia Commedia, [161]
Divisch, [107]
Dobereiner's lamp, [173]
Dryden, [65]
Dubois, Reymond, [298]
Dufay, [83], [95]
Dumas, [290]
Dynamics of bodies, [291]
E
Earth's magnetism, [22]
Earthquakes and electricity, [148]
Earthquakes and magnetism, [315]
Ear of the bird, [139]
Elastic solids, [337]
Electrica, [70]
Electrical bumper, [96];
jack, [95];
pistol, [172];
treatment, [147];
tube, [81]
Electricitatis, [134]
Electric light, [316];
matter, [92];
motor, [76]
Electricity, [70]
Electro-dynamics, [250]
Electromagnet, [70]
Electro-magnetics, [250]
Electro-magnetism, [70]
Electro-magnetismos, [41]
Electron, [86]
Electronic theory, [85]
Electrophorus, [171]
Electroscope, [171]
Epilepsy, [292]
Epitaph of Franklin, [129]
Eratosthenes, [1]
Ether, [309];
universal, [60]
Euclid, [1]
Eudiometer, [172]
Eugénie, Empress, [310]
Euler, [107], [236], [280]
Ewing, [42]
Examination of conscience, [79]
Existence, History of, [247];
of God, [354]
F
Failure, Triumph of, [283], [391]
Faith, Confession of, [186]
Faraday, [32], [41], [189], [298], [338], [361], [366];
eloquence, [323];
marriage, [329];
money making, [309];
notebooks, [302], [317];
parents, [300];
passing of, [332];
perseverance, [318];
poverty, [300];
statement of law, [314]
Faraday-Maxwell Theory, [344]
Father of Mercies, [327]
Father of Pathology, [167]
Fechner, [276], [284]
Fénelon, [235]
Fichte, [324]
Field, Cyrus W., [322], [377], [384]
Field of force, [42]
Filial tributes, [267]
Flavio Gioja, [20]
Foster, Carey, [388]
Foucault, [55]
Fourier, [363]
Fowler, [149]
Francis I., Emperor, [110]
Franklin, [68], [77];
and Paine, [128]
Franklinian rods, [115]
Franz, Father, [110]
Freedom of the Press, [225]
Free will, [352], [394]
Fresnel, [251], [361]
Frog dancing master, [151]
Fuller, [65]
Fulminating pane, [89]
Future, Truth of, [331]
G
Galileo, [40], [245]
Gateway of Knowledge, [386]
Galtoni, Father, [16], [8]
Galvani, [133], [205], [211];
anticipation of original experiment, [144];
Madame, [141];
the physician, the teacher, [151];
wife, [140]
Galvanometer, [70], [375]
Garnett, [339]
Gasser, [28]
Gauss, [271], [375]
Gay-Lussac, [209]
Gellibrand, [26], [49]
Genius, Precocious, [234]
Geometry, [1]; and intellectual culture, [267], [268]
Gilbert, [3], [13], [26], [32]
Giliani, Alessandra, [155]
Gioja, [200]
Gladstone, [236], [332]
Glass harmonica, [115]
God disposes, [289]
Goethe, [222]
Graduation, Early, [165]
Graft, [192]
Graham, [26]
Gray, Stephen, [77];
Prof. Andrew, [369]
Great Eastern, [382]
Green, [70]
Gregory, [244]
Grind, [263]
Guericke, Otto von, [74]
Guyot de Provins, [7]
Gymnotus electricus, [150]
Gyrostat, [372]
H
Hakewill, [216]
Hallam, [36]
Hamilton, [76]
Handy-men, [273]
Hansteen, [208]
Happy in life, [355]
Hartmann, [26], [31]
Harvey, [133], [334]
Hauksbee, [74]
Haüy, Abbé, [224]
Headaches, [52]
Helmholtz, [279], [321], [366]
Heis, [271]
Henry, [214], [361]; Joseph, [92], [206], [284], [388]
Herapath, [348]
Herschel, Sir John, [225]
Hertzian waves, [342]
Hippocrates, [244]
Hobby, [345]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [262]
Homer, [235]
Horace, [204], [355]
Hottentots, [129]
Hunter, John, [138]
Huyghens, [244]
Hymn to Mont Blanc, [328]
I
Identity of lightning and electricity, [98]
Il mago benefico, [184]
Imitation of Christ, [255]
Inclination, [70]
Induction, [311];
theory of, [311];
sparks, [316]
Institute of France, [202]
Interference, Phenomena of, [287]
Iron filings, [3];
raspings of, [2]
Isidore of Seville, [54]
Isomagnetic lines, [24]
Invisible things of God, [331]
Izarn, [207]
J
Jacobi, [284]
Jesuit gymnasium, [270]
Johns Hopkins University, [389]
Joule, [385], [388]
K
Kant,

[119], [260]
Kelvin, Lord, [139], [228], [258]
Kepler, [40], [333]
Kidneys of the bird, [136]
Kinnersley, [83]
Kircher, [26], [41], [70]
Kite incident, [131];
lightning, [121]
Klaproth, [7], [224]
Kleist, Dean von, [87]
Klopstock, [223]
Kneller, Father, [177]
Knowledge, subjective and objective, [247]
Koerner, [223], [265]
Kohlrausch, [286]
L
Laboratory, First physical, [368]
Laennec, [139]
Lagrange, [244], [343]
Lamont, [270]
Larmor, Dr. Joseph, [66]
Langberg, [287]
Langsdorff, [260]
Languages, Special gift for, [167]
Laplace, [254], [391]
Learning, A little, [160]
Lectures to the working people, [350]
Leibnitz, [245]
Lejeune Dirichlet, [271]
Lenz, [284]
Lesage, [219]
Lessing, [222]
Leverrier, [251]
Libri, [27]
Light an electric phenomenon, [344];
polarized, [316]
Lightning conductor, The Divisch, [111];
kite, [121];
rods, [101], [104], [114];
storm, [116]
Life, Future, [331];
happiness, [355]
Lines of magnetic force, [313]
Linnæus, [238]
Livius Sanutus, [49]
Livres dou Tresor, [9]
Lockwood, Thomas D., [275]
Lodestone, [2]
Lodge, Sir Oliver, [71], [246]
Lombroso, [246]
Lor, M. de, [122]
Lucretius, [2], [167]
Ludwig I., [278]
Lucan, [235]
M
Mackenzie, Colin, [358]
Machines, Simple, [192], [199]
Magaud, [187]
Magiae Naturalis, [35]
Magic, Natural, [215]
Magnes, Loadstone challenge, [34]
Magnetic declination, [47];
dip, [29];
fields, [42], [313];
figures, [3];
inclination, [31];
meridian, [45];
motor, [16]
Magnet and Chinese, [7];
flesh, [5];
gold, [6];
polarity of, [4];
white, [6]
Magnetism, [70], [202];
into electricity, [315]
Magnetismus, [40]
Magnetization, Permanent, [206]
Magnetometer, [44]
Mahomet's sarcophagus, [65]
Makers of Modern Medicine, [13]
Malebranche, [248]
Man proposes, [289]
Manzolini, Madame, [154]
Marcet, Mrs., [301]
Maria Theresa, [110]
Mariotte, [245]
Marriage, Faraday's, [329]
Marshall, Chas., [218]
Martinique, [191]
Martius, [298]
Mass and weight, [56];
of the earth, [58]
Mathematics, Without a taste for, [262]
Matter and force, [320];
ultimate structure of, [282];
al tripos, [364]
Maxwell, [313], [388];
the man, [359]
Memberships, Honorary, [332]
Memory, Wonderful, [236]
Menon, Abbé, [77]
Mental powers and morals, [331]
Message, Inaugural, [376]
Metaphysics, [247], [222]
Meteorological machine, [112]
Mind, Concentration of, [169]
Mirror, Galvanometer, [375]
Mitchell, John, [84], [189]
Mojon, [207]
Molecular torrent, [86]
Molecules, [353]
Money-making, Faraday on, [309]
Monge, [224]
Montucla, [244]
Morality, Absolute, [247]
Morrison, Charles, [218]
Motion, Perpetual, [18]
Moscow, [265]
Mottelay, P. Fleury, [66]
Mullaly, John, [377]
Müller, Johann, [338]
Mullock, Bishop, [373]
Muscle-twitchings, [175]
Musschenbroek, [86], [211]
Myopia, [239]
N
Napoleon, [179], [202], [247]
Near-sightedness, [239]
Negative, [126]
Neptune, [251]
Newe Attractive, [33]
Newman, Cardinal, [353]
Newton, [74], [139], [197], [244], [333], [389];
Principia, [62], [208]
Nollet, Abbé, [77], [95], [101], [170]
Norman, [29], [59]
Novum Organum, [13]
O
Oersted, [208], [232], [249];
discusses evolution, [227]
Ohm, Martin, [262], [270]
Ohm's law, [189], [251], [258];
of acoustics, [282];
goodness of heart, [296]
Ohm's personal appearance, [293];
preface, [274]
Olbers, [224]
Opus Majus, [10]
Opus Tertiam, [12]
Orb of virtue, [33]
Orchestrion, [115]
Origin of Species, [227]
Ostwald, [361]
Oval curves, [337]
Ozanam, [253]
P
Paine, [127]
Palladius, [5]
Paralysis, [148]
Paris, Dr., [304]
Parkinson, [365]
Pascal, [256]
Pasteur, [185], [282], [310]
Pavia, University of, [173]
Pellagra, [184]
Pellico, Sylvio, [187]
Peregrinus, [3], [8], [11]
Perry, Prof. John, [369]
Pfaff, [276]
Philosopher of Copenhagen, [210]
Philosophia Magnetica, [3]
Philosophical Society, [307]
Philosophy, Small draughts of, [160]
Physics text-book, [291]
Pierre le Pélérin, [12]
Pile, [205]
Pivoted compass, [9]
Plagiarism, [63]
Planta, Martin de, [74]
Plato, [1], [213]
Pliny, [4]
Poet and scientist, [323]
Poem, Mathematical, [364]
Poggendorff, [276], [284], [375]
Pohl, [276]
Poincaré, [344]
Polaric, [24]
Polarity, [4], [200]
Polarization, [200]
Polyhedrons, [244]
Pope Alexander VI., [24];
Clement IV., [10];
Paul III., [54];
Leo X., [215]
Popularization of science, [350]
Porta, [215]
Positive, [126]
Potential, [70]
Potato, [174]
Pouillet, [284]
Power, Feeble directive, [51]
Preece, Sir William, [107]
Premonstratensian Order, [107]
Premonition, [266]
Priestley, [106], [121], [167], [171], [231]
Pringle, Sir John, [101]
Priority in discoveries, [133]
Prometheus, Modern, [119]
Providence, [327];
particular, general, [127]
Pseudodoxia Epidemica, [70]
Psychology, [246]
Ptolemy, [54]
Q
Quacks, [52]
Quackery, [149]
R
Radowitz, General, [278]
Rainbow, [333]
Ramsay, Sir Wm., [369]
Ramsden, [74]
Rayleigh, Lord, [388]
Raymond Lully, [10]
Reid, [368]
Religion, [129]
Republic, Cis-Alpine, [156]
Repulsion, Magnetic, [2]
Resurrection, [129]
Retina, [348]
Richet, [246]
Richmann, [106]
Righi, [71]
Ritter, [224]
Robespierre, [114]
Roentgen, [211]
Romagnosi, [206]
Ronaldo, [219]
Ross, Sir James, [30]
Rotch, [104]
Rousseau, [238]
Rowland, [94]
Rush, Benjamin, [165]
S
Sacchetti, [153]
Samothracian rings, [3]
Saturn's Rings, [339]
Scarpa, [137]
Schelling, [224]
Schiller, [223]
Schlegel, [223]
Schweigger, [273]
Science and free will, [352];
and religion, [185];
classification of, [252];
experimental, [37];
high priest of, [295]
Sebec, [281]
Secular variation, [49]
Semi-circular canals, [138]
Senses, Seven, [387]
Series, [90]
Seventh Sense, [387]
Shakespeare's Cliff, [329]
Siena, Cathedral, [115]
Siger, [17]
Silurus electricus, [150]
Siphon-recorder, [375]
Skill, Mechanical, [273]
Smith's Prize, [336], [365]
Snell, [244]
Sophocles, [355]
Soundings of deep sea, [384]
Sound, Perception of, [282]
Southey, [8]
Spectator, [215]
Spence, Dr., [82]
Sphere, Electrified, [198]
Spirit of mathematical analysis, [262]
Squaring of the circle, [243]
Saint Aloysius, [134];
Augustine, [53], [254];
Francis, Third Order of, [161];
Thomas, [63]
Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy, [252]
Statics, [199]
Stereoscope, Real image, [348]
Stethoscope, [139]
Stevin, [49]
Stewart, Balfour, [388]
Stimmen aus Maria-Laach, [177]
Stokes, [364]
Stoney, [388]
Strada, [216]
Strain in the ether, [356]
Structure of physical bodies, [282]
Stuber, Dr., [119]
Sturgeon, [70]
Sugar from beet-root, [306]
Sulzer, [176]
Superfluous, Elimination of, [283]
Suspension of the earth, [60]
Swammerdam, [144]
T
Taisnier, [26], [63]
Tait, [334], [337], [342]
Tampering with the lodestone, [6]
Tandem, [90]
Taprobane, [5]
Tasso, [166], [235]
Taylor's scientific memoirs, [276]
Telephone, [70]
Terrella, [44]
Terrestrial magnetism, [51]
Terror, Reign of, [201]
Test-nail method, [44]
Text-books, Maxwell's, [349]
Thales, [2]
Theory of induction, [314];
of the Leyden-jar, [88];
two-fluid, [126]
Thévenot, [20]
Thimble-cell, [379]
Thompson, James, [362];
Silvanus P., [27], [63], [80], [371];
Wm., [361]
Thunderbolt, [117]
Toaldo, Padre, [115]
Torpedo, [150]
Torsion balance, [84], [188]
Torque, [200]
Tripos, [365]
Truth of the future, [331]
Twitchings of frogs, [135]
Tycho Brahé, [68]
Tyndall, [299]
U
Uhland, [223], [265]
Understanding and personal investigation, [268]
University degrees, [265]
Unworkable, [357];
extension, [225]
Uranus, [251]
V
Van Helmont, [70]
Van Troostwijk, [361]
Variation of the compass, [21]
Vaults, The statics of, [191]
Venedey, [271]
Venturoli, [156]
Verses, Latin, [239]
Virchow, [293]
Virgil, [166]
Virgilius, [53]
Vitry, Cardinal Jacques de, [8]
Volta, [162];
anticipation of, [176];
faith, [186];
honored, [180];
piety;[183];
pile, [177]
Voltaic pile, [176]
Voltaire, [235]
Vortex, [372]
W
Wallace, [244], [246]
Watson, [70], [95]
Waves, Hertzian, [342]
Wealth, Three ways to, [127]
Weber, [342]
Weight, Accidental, [57];
and mass of the earth, [56], [58]
Wenckebach, [21]
Werner, [224]
Wheatstone, [70]
Wilson, Dr. Benjamin, [101]
Wimshurst,

[74]
Windmills, [199]
Winkelmann, [222]
Winkler, [91]
Works, sham, pilfered, distorted, [63];
under-water, [99]
Worthies of England, [65]
Y
Young, [313]
Z
Zák, Father Alphons, [108]

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