The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester / To which is added a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, with a Commentary thereon.

by Henry Dircks

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].