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

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].