Lives of the electricians

by William T. Jeans

Honor, love, revere, admire

One who sought not adulation

When he chained the electric fire;

“Who, discouraged and defeated,

Bore it with a patient grace;

By no boastful pride elated,

When he conquered time and space.”

INDEX.

• A
• Acoustic figures, [117]
• Alpine adventures of Professor Tyndall, [60]
• Alps, accidents on, [65]
• America, electrical discoveries in, [231];
• first line of telegraph in, [273];
• telegraph in (see [Morse] and [Telegraph]);
• visit of Professor Tyndall to, [74]
• Ampère’s electrical discoveries, [91];
• proposed telegraph, [134]
• Aqueous vapour and radiant heat, [44]
• Arago’s electrical discoveries, [91]
• Atlantic cable, [193], [276], [292]
• Automatic telegraph, Wheatstone’s, [199]
• B
• Bain, Alexander, inventions claimed by, [160], [185], [305]
• Baltimore and Washington telegraph, [273]
• Batteries described—Volta’s, [88];
• Grove’s, [89];
• Daniell’s, [128]
• Beer disease, [53]
• Bible descriptions of nature, [6]
• Biographies, use of, xi., xiv.
• Blackwall telegraph, [167], [173]
• Brewster, Sir David’s account of first telegraph, [150];
• on vision, [210];
• improvement of stereoscope, [212]
• Bridge, Wheatstone, [164]
• Bryant, W. Cullen, on Morse and his telegraph, [252], [316]
• C
• Cables, earliest, [187], [269], [292]
• Calorescence, [47]
• Carlyle, Thomas, reminiscences of, [99]
• Celtic genius and science, [7]
• Channel cable, first, [187], [191]
• Charges for telegraphing, [181]
• China, telegraph to, [317]
• Clark, Latimer, on first English telegraph, [152];
• on Wheatstone’s single-needle telegraph, [167];
• on Wheatstone’s works, [229]
• Clock, Wheatstone’s electro-magnetic, [160]
• Clouds, experiments in producing, [49]
• Concertina, invention of, [120]
• Congress, American, and telegraph, [263], [270]
• Cooke, W. F., account of his first connection with telegraph, [150], [152];
• dispute with Wheatstone about telegraph, [134], [138], [146];
• efforts to extend telegraph, [173];
• formation of Electric Telegraph Company, [183]
• Cruikshank, George, on first telegraph, [141]
• Cryptograph, invention of, [219]
• Crystals, formation of, [96];
• magnetic properties of, [24]
• D
• Daniell, Professor, on Wheatstone’s first telegraph, [149]
• Daniell’s constant battery, [128]
• Day, Professor J., electrical lectures, [234]
• Dial telegraphs, Wheatstone’s, [158], [196]
• Diamagnetism discovered, [23];
• investigated by Tyndall and others, [24], [29], [33]
• Dynamic radiation of heat, [43]
• Dynamo machine, invention of, [206]
• E
• Earth as return circuit, [171];
• rotatory motion, [217]
• Earth’s magnetic force, [26]
• Electric currents, measurement of, [93], [163]
• Electric telegraph. See Telegraph.
• Electric Telegraph Company, formation of, [183]
• Electrical biographies, use of, xi.
• Electrical heat and light, [89]
• Electricians, distribution of, xii., [231]
• Electricity, production of, [22], [88], [91], [94], [232];
• force of, [163];
• velocity of, [93]
• Ellsworth, Miss, connection with Morse telegraph, [272], [277]
• Enchanted lyre, Wheatstone’s, [111]
• Evolution, early days of Darwinian theory of, [97]
• Exploder, Wheatstone’s, [186]
• Explosion of mines by electricity, [185]
• F
• Faraday’s associations with Professor Tyndall, [26], [30], [102];
• electrical and magnetic discoveries, [23];
• lecture on scientific theories, [32];
• on Wheatstone’s telegraph, [198]
• Forbes, Professor J. D., on glaciers, [37], [40]
• Frankland, Dr., associated with Professor Tyndall, [15];
• glacier theory by, [45]
• G
• Gale, Professor, assisted Morse with telegraph, [249]
• Gases, radiation and absorption of heat by, [42];
• sounding power of, [58]
• Gauss and Weber’s telegraph, [136]
• Germ theory, [51], [98]
• German scientists, [21], [27]
• Germany, science in, between 1840 and 1850, [16];
• student life in, [17];
• telegraph in, [136]
• Glacier phenomena, [38]
• H
• Harmonium, Wheatstone’s improvements in, [123]
• Heat, radiant, investigation of, [42], [58]
• House, R. E., printing telegraph by, [306]
• I
• Induced electricity, discovery of, by Faraday, [22]
• Inventions, popular accounts of origin of, [167];
• Morse’s definition of, [280];
• public appreciation of, [281], [302]
• Irish scientists, [7]
• J
• Jackson, Dr., disputes with Morse origin of telegraph, [244], [256]
• K
• Kaleidophone, [117]
• L
• Light, velocity of, [125]
• Lightning conductors, [131]
• Longitude determined by telegraph, [287]
• M
• Magnetic attraction, [28]
• Magnetic exploder, [186]
• Magnetisation of light, [93]
• Magnetism and diamagnetism, [23], [29];
• of the earth, [26]
• Magnetism and electricity, [22], [91]
• Magnetism, mechanical theory of, [93]
• Magneto-electric machine, Wheatstone’s, [159]
• Magnets, interaction of, [91];
• lengthened by electricity, [92]
• Marburg, student life in, [17]
• Measurement of electric currents, Wheatstone’s plans for, [124], [163]
• Metals, new, discovered by electric spark analysis, [127]
• Microphone, first use of word, [119]
• Morse alphabet, uses of, [307]
• Morse, Professor S. F. B.:
• artist, how he became an, [236];
• success as, [243];
• why he ceased to be an, [279]
• Atlantic cable, connection with, [276], [292]
• birth and education of, [233]
• Congress’s action towards, [263], [270]
• death of, [320]
• difficulties in constructing his telegraph, [246];
• in introducing it, [268], [281]
• electrical studies, [234], [242], [244]
• first line of telegraph constructed by, [273]
• funeral of, [321]
• honours conferred on, [308], [311]
• Jackson, Dr., controversy with, [244], [256]
• law-suits to protect patent rights, [303]
• London visited by, [236], [295]
• patents, [259], [265];
• defence of, [303]
• pictures painted by, [237]
• photography, early connection with, [266]
• proscribed German student’s case, [253]
• rewards of, [309], [313]
• statue of, [315]
• telegraph, distinguishing features of, [279];
• first conception of, [244];
• first public description of, [260];
• labours to improve, [247];
• practical working of, [260];
• public trial of, [268];
• refusal of, by American Government, [283];
• spread of, [284];
• uses of, [286];
• working of, [289]
• trial of first telegraph line, [277]
• submarine cable, first, [269], [276], [292]
• N
• Needle telegraph, [143], [167]
• Niagara visited by Prof. Tyndall, [75]
• O
• Ohm’s work and theory, [140]
• O’Shaughnessy, Dr., introduction of telegraph in India, [310]
• P
• Palmerston, Lord, on telegraph, [194]
• Pasteur’s experiments with germs, [52]
• Photography, invention of, [266];
• introduction of, [211], [267]
• Piz Morteratch, accident upon, [67]
• Polarised light, Wheatstone’s experiments, [222]
• Printing telegraph, Wheatstone’s, [161]
• Proscribed German student, Morse’s account of, [253]
• Pseudoscope, invention of, [216]
• Q
• Queenswood College, [15]
• R
• Railway mania of 1845, [13]
• Recording telegraph, Morse’s, [277], [290];
• Wheatstone’s, [199]
• Relay, first accounts of, [141], [249]
• Resistance measurer, [163]
• Return circuit, [171]
• Revolution effected by electricity, ix.
• Revolving mirror, uses of, [124]
• Rheostat, Wheatstone’s, [165]
• Ricardo, J. L., connection with telegraph, [183]
• Ronalds’s telegraph, [110]
• Rosa, Monte, ascent of, [61]
• Royal Institution, changes at, [84];
• lectures by Tyndall at, [30], [38], [87]
• S
• Scientific attainments, recognition of, in England, [35]
• Scientific discovery, the pursuit of, [79]
• Sea-water, varying tints of, [56]
• Semaphore telegraph, [180]
• Slaty cleavage, [36]
• Smoke respirator, invention of, [54]
• Sound, transmission of, [56];
• Wheatstone on, [116]
• Sounder, the Morse, [291]
• Spectrum analysis of electric spark, [127]
• Standards, electrical, [164]
• Steinheil’s telegraph, [136]
• Stereoscope, invention of, [210];
• improvement of, [212];
• principle of, [215]
• Submarine cables, earliest experiments with, [187], [269], [276], [292]
• T
• Tawell, murderer, apprehended by use of telegraph, [178]
• Telegraph, adoption of, by public, [173], [283]
• automatic telegraph of Wheatstone, [199]
• cables, earliest, [189], [269], [292];
• illustration of working, [95]
• charges for, [181]
• dial, invented by Wheatstone, [158];
• improvement of, [196]
• early forecasts of, [106];
• early achievements of, [173], [277], [284]
• electro-magnetic, Morse’s, [248], [277], [290];
• Wheatstone’s, [158]
• extension of, [173], [181], [284], [292]
• history of, [134], [144], [153], [173], [244], [260], [282], [292]
• idea and invention of, [105], [244]
• longitude ascertained by, [287]
• Morse’s recording, [244], [260], [280], [290]
• needle, [143], [167]
• origin of, [134], [138], [142], [150], [244], [292]
• pedigree of, [108]
• recording, [199], [246], [260], [268], [277], [290]
• relay, [141], [249]
• sounder, the Morse, [290]
• Wheatstone’s first needle, [143];
• dial, [158];
• printing, [161];
• recording automatic, [199]
• Telephone, first, [115]
• Thermo-electric pile, [129], [205]
• Thermometers, self-registering, [221]
• Tyndall, Professor J.:
• ancestors of, [3]
• anecdotes of, [34], [93], [97]
• birth and education of, [4]
• daring experiment by, [47]
• description of, by George Ripley, [72]
• diamagnetism, explanation of, [24], [29]
• duty, sense of, [19]
• endowments for scientific purposes, [80]
• Faraday, associations with, [26], [30], [102]
• Germany, student life in, [17], [21]
• German scientific friends of, [21], [26]
• investigation of diamagnetism, [24], [29];
• germs, [51], [98];
• glacier phenomena, [38];
• radiant heat, [42], [58];
• sea-water tints, [56];
• slaty cleavage, [36];
• sound, [56]
• marriage of, [86]
• Ordnance Survey joined, [9]
• Pasteur, remarks on, [52]
• pecuniary assistance declined by, [20], [102]
• Presidential address to British Association, [81]
• Professor of Natural Philosophy, appointed, [31]
• radiant heat, on, [42], [58]
• railway surveying by, [12]
• reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle, [99]
• Royal Institution, at, [30], [85]
• scientific adviser to Trinity House, [102]
• scientific examiner at Woolwich, [35]
• smoke respirator, invention of, [54]
• teaching at Queenswood College, [15];
• elsewhere, [96]
• travels of, in the Alps, [60];
• at Vesuvius, [70];
• in America, [71], [74]
• vindication of scientific education, [35].
• working habits, [12]
• youthful studies, [8], [10], [21]
• V
• Velocity of electricity, [93], [124];
• of light, [125]
• Vesuvius, visited in 1868, [70]
• Vision, Wheatstone’s elucidations of, [210]
• Voltaic battery described, [88];
• discovered, [110]
• W
• West, Benjamin, associated with Morse, [236]
• Wheatstone, Professor Charles:
• birth of, [111]
• bridge, [164]
• cryptograph, [219]
• death and funeral, [228]
• deciphering secret document, [220]
• dispute with W. F. Cooke about telegraph, [134], [138], [146], [153]
• electricity, first studies in, [123]
• enchanted lyre of, [111]
• harmonium improvements, [123]
• honours conferred on, [166], [226]
• invention of chronoscope, [162];
• concertina, [120];
• cryptograph, [219];
• dynamo, [206];
• electric clock, [160];
• enchanted lyre, [111];
• kaleidophone, [117];
• magnetic exploder, [186];
• magneto-electric machine, [159];
• polar clock, [223];
• pseudoscope, [216];
• stereoscope, [210];
• telegraph, [134] (see [Telegraph]);
• thermometers, [221]
• inventions, periodicity of, [223]
• investigation of algebra, [224];
• Chladni figures, [117];
• earth’s motion, [217];
• mental philosophy, [117];
• musical instruments, [120];
• polarised light, [222];
• sound, [116], [118];
• submarine cables, [187];
• submarine explosions, [185];
• thermo-electric pile, [129], [205];
• tone, [224];
• vision, [210]
• investigations, latest and incomplete, [224]
• lightning conductors, opinions on, [131]
• magnetic exploder, [186]
• measurement of force of electric currents, [163]
• originality of his telegraph, [134], [138], [144]
• patents of, [142], [154], [160], [167], [196]
• peculiarities of, [225]
• Professor of Experimental Physics at King’s College, [123]
• revolving mirror, [124]
• speaking machines, improvements in, [117]
• spectrum analysis of electric light, [127]
• submarine cables, early experiments with, [187]
• telegraph, diagram of first, [141];
• history of, [144], [153];
• origin of, [134], [138], [142], [153]
• telegraphic instruments, automatic, [199];
• dial, [158], [196];
• needle, [141], [145], [167];
• printing, [161]
• thermo-electric pile, [129], [205]

RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LONDON AND BUNGAY.