INDEX OF NAMES 1022 Dioscorides 75 Doane, Thomas 469 Dockwra, William 84 Dolby, Ray 724 Dondi, Giovanni di 23, 695 Dondi, Jacopo di 23 Donisthorpe, G.E. 840 Donisthorpe, Wordsworth 741 Donkin, Bryan 398, 674 Dony, Abbé Jean Jacques 92–3 Dore, Samuel 818 Dornberger, Captain W.R. 649, 651 Dow, Herbert 118 Downie, James 853 Downs, J.C. 225 Dowson, J.E. 314 Drais von Sauerbronn, Baron Karl 442 Drake, Edwin L. 211, 452 Drebbel, Cornelius van 537 Dreyse, Nikolaus von 984 Du Quet 449 Duboscq, Jules 735 Ducos du Hauron, Louis 735 Duddell, William du Bois 377 Dudley, Dud 153 Dunlop, John Boyd 217, 446, 449 Dunwoody, General Henry H.C. 726 Dupuy de Lôme 537 Duquesney 896 Duryea brothers 451 Dyer, John 817 Eakins, Thomas 740 Eastman, George 734–5, 739, 851 Eberner, Erasmus 80 Eckert, J. Presper 702 Edgeworth, Richard 472 Edison, Thomas Alva 41, 362, 365, 367–8, 370, 376, 719–21, 722, 741–2, 915, 959 Edwards, Humphrey 279 Eiffel, Gustave 483, 894 Einstein, Albert 213, 737 Elder, John 286 Elizabeth I, Queen 232 Ellington, E.B. 40 Elton, Abraham 84 Engelberger, Joseph 426 Engels, Friedrich 949 England, George 575 Ercker, Lazarus 86, 187 Ericsson, John 342, 528, 533 Euler, Leonhard 236 Evans, Brook 98 Evans, Oliver 30, 238, 277, 282 Ewbank, Thomas 380 Fafschamps 985 Fairbairn, P. 840 Fairbairn, William 241–2 Fairlie, Robert 575 Falcon 823 Faraday, Michael 41, 104, 352, 354–6, 358, 377 Farman, Henri 624 Farnsworth, Philo T. 745 Faure, Camille 353 Fawcett 219 Fellows, E.R. 411 Fenton, James 403 Fenton, Roger 733 Ferguson, Harry 790 Fermi, Enrico 214 Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de 41, 285, 371–2, 376, 960 Fessenden, Reginald 726 Field, Cyrus W. 715 Field, Joshua 398 Figuier 713 Finley, James 465 Fischer (colour film) 735 Fischer (television projector) 746 Fischer, F. 114 Fitch, John 527 Flechsig, W. 745 Fleitman, Thomas 99 Fleming, J.A. 41, 384, 720, 726, 727 Flettner, Anton 642 Focke, Heinrich 642 Fokker, Anthony 995 Ford, Henry 37, 413–14, 452, 789 Forlanini, Enrico 538, 641 Forrester, George 564 Forrester, Jay W. 702, 703 Forsyth, Alexander 984 Fouché 418 Fourdrinier, Henry and Sealy 674 Fourneyron, Benoît 242 Fowler, John 772 Fox, James 399, 404, 411 Fox, Samuel 853 Fox Talbot, Henry 732, 735 Franchot 914 Francis, J.B. 243 Franklin, Benjamin 350 Frankston, Bob 707 Fredkin, Edward 43 Freminet 553 Freyssinet, Eugène 466, 891 Friedrich August II, Elector of Saxony 193 Friese-Greene, William 741 Frisch, Otto 214 Frishmuth, Colonel 105, 108 Frost, James 889 Fuller, R.Buckminster 882, 900 Fulton, Robert 35, 527, 537, 996 INDEX OF NAMES 1023 Fust, Johann 27 Gabor, Denis 737 Gagarin, Yuri 652 Galen 75 Galileo Galilei 23, 25, 695–6, 730 Galvani, Luigi 94, 351 Gamble, John 674 Gamble, Josias 221 Gamond, Aimé Thome de 470 Garratt, H.W. 591 Gartside 821 Gascoigne 398 Gaskill, H.F. 285 Gatling, Richard 985 Geber 220 Ged, William 676 Geitner, Dr 97 Gemma-Frisius, Rainer 731 Genet, E.C. 614 Genoux, Claude 676 Gerber, Heinrich 464 Gerhard, William 104 Gesner, Abraham 211 Gestetner 683 Gibbons, John 162–3 Gibson 219 Giffard, Henri 575, 614 Gilbert, Sir Alfred 108 Gilbert, Cass 897 Gilbert, Joseph 775 Gilbert, William 41, 350 Gillott, Joseph 668 Gilpin, Thomas 510 Glauber, J.R. 221, 774 Glehn, Alfred de 582 Glenn, John 652 Glidden, Carlos 683 Goddard, Robert H. 649 Godowsky, Leopold 735 Goldmark, Peter 723, 746 Goldschmidt, Hans 123 Goldstein, Herman H. 702 Goliath of Gath 388 Gooch, Daniel 568 Goodyear, Charles 216, 849, 853 Gordon, James P. 737 Gorton, Richard and Thomas 821 Goucher, John 784 Gould, Gordon 737 Goulding, J. 836 Gowland, Professor 75–6 Goyen, Jan van 248 Graebe 202 Graetzel, R. 114 Graham, W.G. 448 Gramme, Z.T. 360, 381 Grant, George B. 412 Grantham, J. 456 Gray, Andrew 238 Gray, Elisha 719 Greathead, James Henry 468 Greathead, William 539 Green, Charles 611, 612 Gregory, C.H. 571 Gresham, Sir Thomas 81 Gresley, Nigel 596 Gridley, George O. 410 Griess, Peter 202 Griffith, A.A. 637 Griswold 419 Gropius, Walter 900 Grove, William 353 Guericke, Otto von 273, 323 Guest 417 Guido d’Arezzo 717 Guinand 197 Gundelfinger, Joachim 81 Günther, W. 244 Gurney, Sir Goldsworthy 458 Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zum 27, 670–71 Guton, Henri 729 Guyon, Jacques, Sieur du Chesnoy 483 Haber, Fritz 223–4, 775, 992 Hadfield, R.A. 174 Haenlein, Paul 614 Haessler, Helmut 646 Hahn, Otto 214, 1005 Hair, T.H. 266 Hakewessel 410 Hale, Edward Everett 747 Hale, Gerald A. 461 Hale, William 646 Hall, Asaph 747 Hall, Charles Martin 107–108, 111, 224 Hall, Douglas 426 Hall, John 223, 405–406, 408 Hall, Joseph 161–2 Halladay, Daniel 258 Hamd-allah Mustafi 77 Hamilton, Hal 594 Hammond, Robert 370 Hanaman, Franz 133 Hancock, Thomas 216–17, 853 Hancock, Walter 458 Hannan, W.J. 752 Hannart, Louis 852 Hansard, T.C. 677 Hansgirg 121 Hanway, Jonas 853 Harford family (brass-makers) 91–2 Hargreaves, James 825–7 Harington, Sir John 921 INDEX OF NAMES 1024 Harrison, John 24, 544, 696 Hart 408 Hartmann 376 Haupt, Hans 853 Hawksley, Thomas 952, 956 Haynes, Edward 127 Heald, James 413 Hearson 796 Heathcote, John 848 Heaviside, Oliver 729 Hedley, William 559 Hegginbotham 426 Heilmann, J. 840 Heiman, Frederick P. 705 Heinkel, Ernst 39 Henlein, Peter 695 Henne, Heinrich 242 Hennébique, François 890, 891 Henry VIII, King 81 Henson, William Samuel 39, 619–20 Herland, Hugh 866 Herman, Augustine 509–510 Hero of Alexandria 17, 25, 273, 290, 695 Herodotus 27, 69, 462, 868 Héroult, Paul Louis Toussaint 109–11, 176, 224 Herring, A.M. 622 Herrman 411 Herschel, Sir John 732 Hertz, Heinrich 725 Hetzel 696 Hewes, T.C. 239, 241 Highs, Thomas 828 Hill, David Octavius 733 Hill, Rowland 219, 964 Hillary, Sir William 539 Hipparchus 694 Ho Wei 97 Hochstetter, Daniel 82, 232 Hochstetter, Joachim 81 Hofmann, August Wilhelm von 201, 208 Hoke, W.E. 415 Holabird 897 Holden, Isaac 840 Holland, J.P. 537 Hollerith, Herman 701 Holly, Birdsill 285 Holmes, F.H. 358 Holmes, Oliver Wendell 735 Holt, Benjamin 472 Holtzapffel 393 Holzwarth, Hans 331, 332 Homfray, Samuel 35 Honnecourt, Villard de 231 Hooke, Robert 17, 24, 25, 731 Hooper, Captain Stephen 256 Hoover, W.H. 927 Hopkinson, John 361–2 Hopper, Thomas 894 Hornblower, Jonathan 278 Horner 739 Horning, H.L. 317 Horsbrugh 546 Hostein, Steven R. 705 Houldsworth, H. 839 House, Royal E. 719 Houston, E.J. 376 Howe, Elias 848, 851 Howe, Frederick W. 406, 408 Howe, William 463 Hudson, Henry 48 Hughes, D.E. 965 Hulls, Jonathan 453 Humfrey, Sir William 82–3 Hunt, Captain A.E. 108 Hunt, Walter 985 Hunter, M.A. 141 Huntsman, Benjamin 159–60, 397 Huth, G. 718 Hutton, William 98 Huygens, Christiaan 23, 24, 304–305, 696, 738 Hyatt, John Wesley 217 Hyland, L.A. 729 I Hsing 695 Ince, Francis 371 Isodorus of Miletus 880 Issigonis, Alec 452 Ivatt, H.A. 590 Ives, F.E. 682 Jabir see Geber Jablochkoff, Paul 363 Jacobi, M.H. 380 Jacquard, Joseph-Marie 699, 823 Jacquet-Droz 696 Jansen, Zacharias 25 Jansky, Karl G. 729 Janssen, P.J.C. 742 Jefferson, Thomas 405 Jeffries, Zay 126 Jenatzy, Camille 458 Jenkins, Charles Francis 745 Jenney, William Le Baron 897 Jervis, John B. 573 Jessop, William 479, 480, 481, 556 Joffroy d’Abbans, Marquis de 527 Johansson, Carl Edward 414–15, 417 Johnson, Isaac Charles 889 Johnson, Percival Norton 97–8 Johnson, S.W. 582 Johnson, Thomas 843 Johnston, William 897 Jolly-Bellin, Jean-Baptiste 854 INDEX OF NAMES 1025 Jones, Samuel 912 Joubert 377 Joy, David 569 Judson, Whitcomb L. 852 Julius Caesar 462 Julliot, Henri 615 Junghans, S. 177 Junkers, Hugo 324, 628 Just, Alexander 133 Kahlmeter, Henric 85 Kaiser, Henry 121 Kaovenhofer, Andreas 236 Kaplan, Victor 245 Kapp, Gisbert 361 Karavodine, M. 332 Kay, John (of Bury) 821–2 Kay, John (of Warrington) 828 Kay, Robert 822, 830 Kekulé, August 202 Kellner, Carl 225 Kelly, William 837 Kelvin, Lord 112, 545 see also Thomson, Sir William Kemeny, John G. 705 Kennelly, Arthur 729 Kenward, Cyril Walter 426 Kepler, Johan 746 Kettering, C.F. 317 Kilby, J.S. 705 Kircher, P. 738 Kjellberg 418 Kleinschmidt, E.E. 715 Klic, Karl 679 Knight, Charles 677 Knight, J.P. 460 Komarov, Vladimir 653 König, Friedrich 675 Krais 205 Kranich, Burckard 81 Krebs, Arthur 614 Kremer, Henry 646 Kroll, W.J. 133, 141, 142, 143 Kügelgen 115, 117 Kung Ya 97 Kurtz, Thomas E. 706 Kyeser, Konrad 648 Kylala 598 La Hire, Phillippe 396 La Pointe, John 414 La Rive, A.A. 95 Lactantius 730 Laithwaite, Eric 384 Lake, Simon 537 Lanchester, Frederick 413, 451–2, 1001 Lanchester, George 451–2 Land, Edwin 736 Lane-Fox, St George 365, 368 Langen, Eugen 306, 454 Langer, Carl 100 Langmuir, Irving 915 Lanston, Tolbert 680 Lartigue, C.F.M.T. 586 Lascelles, William 891 Latimer-Needham, C.H. 538 Launoy 641 Lauste, Eugène Augustin 742 Laval, Gustav de 290, 346 Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent 189, 201 Lawes, John Bennet 224, 775 Lawrence, Richard S. 406 Le Blanc 405, 983 Le Corbusier 892 Le Prince, Louis 741 Leakey, Louis 6 Leakey, Mary 6 Leakey, Richard 10 Leavitt, E.D. 285 Lebaudy brothers 615 Leblanc, Nicholas 221 Lebon, Phillippe 40, 209, 957 Leclanché, Georges 353 Ledru 95 Lee, Edmund 258 Lee, Revd William 819, 846 Leeghwater, Jan 250 Leeuwenhoek, Anton von 25, 730 Legagneux, G. 627 Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 699 Lemale, C. 332 Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 594 Lenoir, Etienne 305, 454 Leonardo da Vinci 162, 390, 393, 395, 461, 483, 500, 815, 899, 978 Leoni 209 Leonov, Alexei 652 Lesage, George Louis 710 Leschot 696 Lesseps, Ferdinand de 505, 514 Lethbridge 553 Leukippos 212 Leupold, Jacob 235, 277 Levassor, Emile 451 Levavasseur, Léon 625 Lever, William Hesketh 923 Levers, John 848 Lévy, Lucien 727 Lewis, Colonel I.N. 992 Lewis, J. 818 Lewis, William 129 Liang Ling-tsan 695 Liardet 885 Libby, William F. 697 INDEX OF NAMES 1026 Liebermann 202 Liebig, Baron Justus von 201, 775, 910 Lilienthal, Otto 39, 621 Lillie, James 241 Linde, Carl von 454 Lindsay, Sir Coutts 371 Lippershey, Johannes 25, 730 Lister, Samuel C. 805, 840 Lloyd, C.M. 417 Lloyd, Edward 84 Locke, Joseph 565, 575 Lombe, John and Thomas 824 Longbotham, John 478 Louis 894 Louis XV, King of France 193 Lovelace, Ada Augusta, Countess of 701 Lowrey, Grosvenor P. 368 Lucretius 212, 350 Ludwig I, King of Bavaria 498 Lukin, Lionel 539 Lumière, August and Louis 742 Lunardi 614 Lundstrom 912 Lusuerg, Dominicus 25 Lusuerg, Jacob 25 Lysippus of Sicyon 68 McAdam, John Loudon 435–6, 963 McAlphine, Robert 891 McAuliffe, Christa 656 McCormick, Cyrus 782 McCready, Paul 647 Macintosh, Charles 216, 849, 853 McIntyre, John 529 McKenna, P.M. 417 Macmillan, Kirkpatrick 443 McNaught, William 279 Macquer, P.J. 129, 193 Maddox, R.L. 733 Magee, Carl C. 461 Maiano, Giovanni da 871 Maillart, Robert 466 Maiman, Theodore H. 419, 737–8 Mallet, Anatole 581, 582–3 Malouin, P.J. 95 Manby, Aaron 164 Manly, C.M. 320 Mannes, Leopold 735 Mansart, François 884 Mansfield 208 Marconi, Guglielmo 726 Marcus, Siegfried 449, 454 Marey, Etienne Jules 740, 741 Marggraf, Andreas 801 Margraff 92 Maritz 396 Marsh (slotmeter) 209 Marsh, A.L. 125, 917 Marsh, Sylvester 584 Martel, Charles 972 Martin, C. 837 Martin, Emil and Pierre 172 Martius, Carl Alexander 202 Martyn, Sir Richard 83 Masaru, Inoue 577 Masing 124 Massey 545 Mathieu, Albert 470 Matther, William 114 Mattucci, Felice 305 Mauchly, John 702 Maudslay, Henry 29, 30, 395, 397–8, 404 Maughan, Benjamin Waddy 919 Mawson, John 366 Maxim, Hiram 365, 368, 621, 925, 986 Maxwell, James Clerk 725, 735 Maybach, Wilhelm 310, 311, 451, 454 Mège-Mouriez, Hippolyte 190, 799 Meikle, Andrew 256, 267, 784 Meissonier (mining engineer) 104 Meissonier, Jean-Louis-Ernest 740 Meitens, Auguste de 418 Meitner, Lisa 214 Melan, Joseph 466 Mellon, Andrew 108 Mellor, Samuel 113 Menabrea, Luigi 701 Mendeleev, Dimitri 213 Mengoni 896 Menneson, Marcel 421 Mercer, John 849 Merensky, Hans 132 Mergenthaler, Ottmar 680 Merica, Paul 99, 122 Merle, Henri 103 Merritt, William Hamilton 507 Messel, Rudolf 223 Mestral, George de 852 Metcalfe, John 433–4 Meusnier, General J.B.M. 614 Meyer, Lothan 213 Michaux, Pierre 445 Michelangelo 881 Midgley, Thomas 317 Mignet, Henri 645 Millar, Robert 843–4 Minié, Captain 983 Moissan, Henri 112, 135, 141 Mole, de 993 Moller, Anton 820 Mond, Ludwig 100, 222 Monell, Ambrose 101 Monier, Joseph 466, 890 Monroe 1004 INDEX OF NAMES 1027 Montferrand 894 Montgolfier brothers 287, 609–10, 611, 614 Moore, Hiram 785–6 Moore, Richard F. 415 Moorhead, General 513 Moray, Samuel 454 Morewood, Edmund 95 Morice, Peter 234, 951 Morin, Paul 112 Morland, Sir Samuel 3, 33 Morris, Sir William 452 Morrison, Warren 696 Morrison, William Murray 112 Morse, Samuel F.B. 714, 965 Morton, James 203 Morveau, L. 102 Moschel, Wilhelm 115, 116 Moss, S.A. 315 Mosselman, Dominique 93 Moule, Revd Henry 922 Moxon, Joseph 673 Müller, Paul 776 Müller, Wilhelm 242 Muller-Breslau, Professor 617 Mummer, Jacob 84 Murchland 792 Murdock, William 40, 161, 208–209, 227, 403, 441, 957 Murray, Alexander 682 Murray, Matthew 399, 403–404, 559, 841 Mushet, R.F. 172, 174 Muspratt, James 221, 222 Muybridge, Edweard 739–41 Myddelton, Sir Hugh 951 Nadar 733 Nagelmackers, Georges 578, 579 Napier, David 677 Napier, John 698 Napoleon I, Emperor of the French 93, 102, 487 Napoleon III, Emperor of the French 103, 533 Nash, John 871, 886, 894 Nasmyth, James 398, 401, 406 Natrus 251 Need, Samuel 829 Neilson, J.B. 162 Neri, Antonio 187 Nero, Emperor of Rome 501 Nervi, Pier Luigi 882, 885, 892 Netto, Professor 105, 108 Neumann, John von 702 Newcomen, Thomas 3, 33, 155, 207, 273, 275 Newman, Larry 613 Niepce, Nicéphore 419, 731–2 Nipkow, Paul 744 Nobel (the elder) 996 Nobel, Alfred 190, 223, 988 Noble, James 840 Noiré 666 North, Revd C.H. 461 North, Simeon 405, 408 Northrop, J.H. 844 Norton, Charles 413 Norton, W.P. 412 Notman, William 733 Nuffield, Lord 452 Nuys, van 418 Oberth, Hermann 649, 747 Obry, Ludwig 997 Oechehäuser, W. von 324 Oersted, Hans Christian 102, 355, 377 Ogilvy, John 461 Ohain, Hans von 39, 333, 635 Olds, Ransome E. 37, 413 Osborne, Adam 707 Otis, Elisha Graves 897 Otis, William 470 Otto, Nikolaus A. 306–307, 454 Oughtred, William 698 Outram, Benjamin 556 Owen, Robert 832 Owens, Michael 198 Paabo, Max 845 Page, Charles 380, 718 Paget, A. 847 Paixhans, General 533 Palladio, Andreas 463 Palladius 781 Palmer, Charles Mark 529 Palmer, H.R. 586 Palmer, Jean Laurent 417 Palmer, John 438 Papin, Denis 3, 33, 273, 527, 945 Paracelsus 80 Paris, J.A. 739 Parker, James 888, 889 Parker, John Joseph 668 Parkes, Alexander 217 Parkhurst, Edward G. 408, 410 Parry, G. 163 Parseval, Major von 612 Parsons, C.A. 3, 37, 290–91 Parsons, John 422 Pascal, Blaise 33, 699 Pasley, Colonel Charles W. 466 Pasteur, Louis 793 Pathé, Charles 742 Patten, Thomas 90, 91 Paul, Lewis 824–5, 828, 830 Paul, R.J. 375 Paul, Robert 742 INDEX OF NAMES 1028 Pauly, Samuel 984 Paxton, Sir Joseph 895 Pechiney, Alfred Rangod 103, 109 Pegler, Alan 606 Pennington, E.J. 993 Pennington, William 830 Perkin, William Henry 190, 201–202 Perkins, Jacob 286, 287 Perry, John 375, 376 Peter, Peregrinus 350 Pfleumer 722 Pherecrates 71 Philippe, Adrien 696 Phillips, Robert 434 Phillips, W.H. 641 Phips 553 Picard 418 Piccard, Auguste 553, 613 Pickard, James 276 Picolpasso 192 Pidgeon, M. 120 Piercey, B.J. 127 Pierpoint, Colonel 460 Pilcher 39 Pilkington, Dr 197 Pilkington, Sir Alastair 198 Pistor, Gustav 115, 116, 119 Pixii, Hippolyte 356–7 Planté, Raimond Louis Gaston 353 Plateau, J.A. 739 Pliny the Elder 75, 187, 350, 672, 781, 796 Plumier 393, 394 Polhem, Christopher 237, 395, 501 Poliakoff, Joseph 722 Polk, Willis 900 Polly 251 Polo, Marco 19, 27, 77 Poncelet, J.V. 242 Poniatoff, Alexander M. 751 Ponton d’Amecourt, Vicomte 641 Porsche, Ferdinand 452 Porter, C.T. 283–4 Pouillet, Claude-Servain 374 Poulsen, Valdemar 722 Praed, William 479 Praetorius 123 Pratt, Caleb 463 Pratt, Francis 406 Pratt, Samuel 907 Pratt, Thomas 463 Preece, Sir William 368 Prélat 984 Prévost, M. 627 Priess 123 Priestley, Joseph 216 Priestman, William D. 310, 454 Pritchard, Thomas Farnolls 893 Prokhorov, A.M. 737, 738 Prony, Gaspard Riche, Baron de 699 Pugh 426 Pullman, George Mortimer 577 Pullman, John 369 Pulski, François von 5 Pulson, Sven 408 Pythagoras 717 Radcliffe, William 843 Rainey, Paul M. 749 Ramelli 265 Ramsbottom, John 175 Ramsden, Jesse 394, 411 Ransome (grinding wheel) 408 Ransome, Frederick 889 Ransome, Robert 771 Rateau, Auguste 291, 315, 316 Ravenscroft, George 196–7 Rawcliffe, G.H. 384 Reason, Richard 415, 423 Reeves, Alec H. 749 Regelsburger 123 Régnier 823 Rehe 396 Reis, Philip 718 Renard, Charles 614 Rennie, John 480, 481, 552 Reynaud, Emile 739 Reynold, Han 414 Reynolds, E.T. 285 Reynolds, Richard 161 Ricardo, H.R. 316, 317, 322 Richmann, Georg Wilhelm 350 Rickman 894 Ridley, John 781 Riggenbach, Niklaus 584 Riley, James 98 Rippon, Walter 438 Riquet, Pierre 484, 485 Ritchie, S.J. 99 Rites, F.M. 284 Robert, Marie Noel 610 Robert, Nicolas Louis 674 Roberts (welding) 418 Roberts, David 472 Roberts, Richard 398, 399, 400, 838, 844 Robia, Albert 744 Robinson, George 833 Robinson, Thomas 941 Roche (architect) 897 Roche, Tiphaigne de la 730 Roe, A.V. 626 Roe, Charles 90, 91 Roebling, John 465 Roebling, Washinton A. 465 Roebuck, John 222, 275 INDEX OF NAMES 1029 Rogallo, Francis Melvin 646 Roger, Emile 451 Rogers, Bryant 705 Rogers, George 96 Rogerson 929 Roget, P.M. 739 Rohn, W. 124, 125 Rolls, Hon. Charles S. 452 Rolt, L.T.C. 516 Romershausen 718 Rondelet 890 Röntgen, Wilhelm 725–6 Root, Elisha K. 406 Roper, William 406 Roscoe, Henry 113 Rose, H. 104, 108 Rosenberg, Augustus 723 Rosing, Boris 744 Rowland, W.R. 456 Royce, Henry 452 Rozier, Pilâtre de 610 Ruffle, Richard 258 Ruisdael, Jacob van 248 Rustichello of Pisa 19 Rutherford, Ernest 213, 1005 Rutt, William 677 Sabatier 190 Saint-Victor, Niepce de 733 Salomans, Sir David 451 Salt, Sir Titus 894 Samain, Jacques 751 Samuda brothers 570 Sanders, Thomas 719 Santos-Dumont, Alberto 615, 645 Sanz, M.C. 419 Sargon, King of Assyria 57, 768 Sarnoff, David 745 Sauerbronn, Baron Karl Drais von 442 Saulnier, Raymond 625 Savery, Thomas 3, 33, 273, 275 Schawlow, Arthur L. 419, 737, 738 Scheele, Carl Wilhelm 205 Scherkel, Baron Hanno von 538–9 Scheutz, Edvard and Georg 701 Schickhardt, Wilhelm 699 Schiøler 230 Schliemann, Heinrich 62 Schmeisser, Hugo 1004–1005 Schmidt, Wilhelm 590 Schöffer, Peter 27, 670 Schönbein, Christian Friedrich 217, 223 Schröter 135 Schrotter, Anton von 912 Schuckert 375 Schultz, Christopher 82–3 Schultz, Johann Heinrich 729 Schwarz, David 615 Scott, H. 122 Scott de Martinville, Leon 720, 721 Seaward, James 398 Seger, H. 195 Seguin, A. 627 Seguin, Marc 561 Sejournet 126 Semon, W.L. 219 Senefelder, Johann Alois 678 Senlecq, Constantin 744 Senot 395 Seppings, Sir Robert 524 Seurat, Georges 743 Seward 115, 117 Shannon, Claude E. 701, 703, 749–50 Shaw, William Thomas 739 Shepard, Alan 652 Shield, Dr 792 Shillibeer, George 458 Shipman, M.D. 852 Shockley, William 42, 703 Sholes, Christopher Latham 682 Short, Horace 613 Shrapnel, General Sir Henry 986 Sickels, F.E. 282 Siebe, Augustus 553 Siemens, C.W. 171–2, 176, 198, 359 Siemens, Werner von 457, 584–5, 959 Siemens, Sir William 369 Sigsfeld, Captain von 612 Sikorsky, Igor 628, 643 Silliman, Benjamin, jun. 211 Simms, F.R. 993 Simonson, Vedel 4 Simpson, Gerald 230 Simpson, James 953 Sinclair, Sir Clive 458–9, 697 Singer, Isaac Merritt 848, 851 Skaupy, F. 138 Skinner, H. 846 Skola 823 Slavianoff, N.G. 418 Small, James 770 Smalley, John 829 Smeaton, John 236–7, 255, 258, 265, 397, 478, 888 Smirke, Sydney 896 Smith, Charles Shaler 464 Smith, Ciceri 417 Smith, Francis Pettit 528 Smith, J. 836 Smith, Willoughby 744 Snodgrass (textile engineer) 835 Snodgrass, Gabriel 523–4 Soane, Sir John 871, 894 Sobrero, Ascanio 988 INDEX OF NAMES 1030 Soddy, Frederick 213 Soemmerring, S.T. von 714 Solomon, King of Israel 52 Solvay, Alfred and Ernest 222 Sonstadt, Edward 113–14, 117 Sorel 95 Sorocold, George 234–5 Soufflot 894 Soyer, Alexis 210, 942 Spaichel 390 Spangler, J. Murray 927 Spencer, Christopher Miner 410 Spode, Josiah 194 Spooner, C.E. 575 Sprague, Frank J. 381 Staite, W.E. 418, 914 Stampfer, Simon von 739 Stanford, Leland 739–40 Stanhope, Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl of 674, 676 Stanley, Robert 101 Staudinger, Hermann P. 218 Stearn, C.H. 368 Steers, William 477 Stephens, Henry 669 Stephenson, George 35, 560–61, 563, 565 Stephenson, John 456 Stephenson, Robert 35, 463, 465, 505, 560, 561, 562, 565, 566, 568, 895 Stibitz, George R. 702 Stifel, Michael 698 Stirling, Robert 342 Stock, A. 123 Stolze, F. 332 Stone, Henry D. 406 Strabo 69, 74, 76 Strachey, Christopher 704 Strada, Flaminianus 710 Strassman, F. 214, 1005 Stratingh, Sibrandus 378 Strato 273 Stringfellow, John 29, 620 Strutt, Jedediah 266, 819, 829, 835 Stuart, Herbert Ackroyd 310, 454 Stumpf, J. 287 Sturgeon, William 357, 377 Su Sung 694 Sullivan, Louis H. 897 Sundback, Gideon 852 Svaty, Vladimir 845 Swan, Joseph William 41, 353, 365–7, 368, 849, 915, 959 Swedenborg, Emanuel 86 Symington, William 35, 441, 527 Szilard, Leo 1005 Tacitus 72 Tafur, Pero 427 Tainter, Charles 721, 722 Talbert, David 705 Taylor, A.H. 729 Taylor, Frederick W. 412 Taylor, W.H. 378 Taylor, William 415 Telford, Thomas 434–5, 436, 478, 480, 509 Tennant, Charles 205, 221, 835 Tennant, Smithson 131 Tereshkova, Valentina 652 Tesla, Nikola 383, 925 Thales of Miletus 350 Themistocles 71 Thenard, Louis Jacques 95, 205 Theophilus of Essen 65, 68, 81, 196 Theopompus 74, 76 Thimmonier, Barthelemy 851 Thom, Robert 241, 952 Thomas, P.G. 170–71 Thomas, William 851 Thomsen, Christian Jurgensen 4 Thomson, Alfred 371 Thomson, Elihu 376, 384, 418 Thomson, J.J. 213, 725 Thomson, James 243, 244 Thomson, John L. 100 Thomson, Sir William 368–9, 373 see also Kelvin, Lord Thompson, A. 840 Thompson, Benjamin 558 Thompson, General John T. 1005 Thompson, R.W. 449 Thonnelier 28 Thornley, David 829 Thorp 209 Thuesen, H.G. 461 Thurland, Thomas 82 Thwaite, B.H. 314 Titt, John Wallis 259 Tizard, Sir Henry 729 Todd, T.J. 287 Topham, Fred 368 Torricelli, Evangelista 32, 273 Town, Ithiel 463 Townes, Charles H. 419, 737, 738 Townsend, M. 847 Train, G.F. 456, 583 Trappen, Dr von 992 Treadwell, Daniel 677 Trésaguet, Pierre J.M. 434 Trevithick, R.F. 577 Trevithick, Richard 35, 277, 278, 280, 441–2, 469, 558–9, 589 Trewey 742 Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin 649 Tull, Jethro 774 Turing, Alan M. 422, 701, 703 INDEX OF NAMES 1031 Turner, Richard 895 Turner family (brass-makers) 91 Türr, Colonel Istvan 501 Tuve, Merle A. 729 Twiss, Captain William 506 Twyford 922 Tyer, Edward 581 Uhlhorn, Diedrich 28 Umbleby 325 Vail, Alfred 715 Van Arkell 141 Vauban, Sebastian de 486, 982–3 Vaucanson, Jacques de 395, 409, 823 Vauclain, Samuel 582 Vazie, Robert 469 Verbruggen, Jan 396 Vermuyden, Cornelius 250 Verne, Jules 747 Vernier, Pierre 25 Verrazzano, Giovanni 48 Versnyder, F.L. 127 Vicat, Louis J. 888–9 Victoria, Queen 201, 808 Vignoles, Charles 561 Villette, Professor 92 Villinger, Franz 646 Vitruvius 16, 17, 19, 230, 864, 918 Vivian, A.C. 123 Vivian, Andrew 441 Voisin brothers 624 Volk, Magnus 584 Volta, Alessandro 41, 94, 351–2 Wade, General George 434, 963 Waghenaer, Lucas 546 Waidner, C.W. 141 Walker, Charles Ludlow 92 Walker, John 912 Wallace, William 367 Wallop, Sir Henry 82 Walschaert, Egide 575 Waltenberg, R.G. 122 Walter, T.U. 894 Walton, Frederick 905 Wankel, Felix 326, 328, 455 Ward, Joshua 221 Wark, David 885 Warren, James 463 Wasbrough, Matthew 276 Washington, George 510 Waterhouse, Alfred 871 Watson, Dr 88 Watson, Bishop Richard 95 Watson-Watt, Sir Robert 219, 7 29, 999 Watt, James 31, 33, 155, 156, 209, 275–6, 277, 290, 325, 397, 398, 683, 833, 835 Wayland the Smith 128–9 Wayne, Gabriel 84 Webb, F.W. 582 Weber, J. 737 Weber, Wilhelm 374 Webster, James Fern 105 Wedgwood, Josiah 193 Wedgwood, Ralph 683 Wedgwood, Tom 731 Weldon, Walter 205, 222 Wellington, Arthur, 1st Duke of 853 Welsbach, Carl Auer von 123, 132, 209, 914, 958 Werner, Eugène and Michel 448 Westinghouse, George 580, 960 Weston 375 Wetschgi, Emanuel 393 Wheatstone, Sir Charles 41, 357, 358, 375, 377, 380, 384, 572, 714, 715, 735, 965 Wheeler 214 Whinfield, J.R. 219, 850 Whipple, Squire 463 White, Canvass 466 White, William 114 Whitehead, Robert 997 Whitelaw, James 243 Whitney, Amos 406 Whitney, Eli 29–30, 405, 834, 983 Whittle, Frank 39, 333, 336, 635 Whitworth, Joseph 398, 401, 406, 411 Widlar, Robert 705 Wikander 230 Wilbrand 988 Wilkes, M.V. 703 Wilkie, Leighton A. 418 Wilkinson, David 395 Wilkinson, John 155–6, 276, 397, 528 Wilkinson, William B. 890 Williams, Sir Edward Leader 482 Williams, F.C. 703 Williams, S.B. 702 Williams, Thomas 90–91 Williamson, D.T.N. 425 Wilm, Alfred 122 Wilson, Robert 401 Wimshurst, James 351 Winsor, Frederic Albert 40, 209, 958 Winzen, Otto 613 Winzer, Frederick see Winsor, Frederic Albert Wirth, Niklaus 706 Wise, John 611 Woelfert, Karl 615 Wöhler, Friedrich 102–103, 105, 107 Wollaston, William Hyde 131–2 . 161–2 Halladay, Daniel 258 Hamd-allah Mustafi 77 Hamilton, Hal 594 Hammond, Robert 370 Hanaman, Franz 133 Hancock, Thomas 216–17, 853 Hancock, Walter 458 Hannan, W.J. 752 Hannart, Louis 852 Hansard, T.C 836 Gowland, Professor 75–6 Goyen, Jan van 248 Graebe 202 Graetzel, R. 114 Graham, W.G. 448 Gramme, Z.T. 360, 381 Grant, George B. 412 Grantham, J. 456 Gray, Andrew 238 Gray, Elisha 719 Greathead,. 95 Lactantius 730 Laithwaite, Eric 384 Lake, Simon 537 Lanchester, Frederick 413, 451–2, 1001 Lanchester, George 451–2 Land, Edwin 736 Lane-Fox, St George 365, 368 Langen, Eugen 306, 454 Langer,