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
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