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Index
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Abeille
Abrogast
Académie royale des Sciences, character and function
Achard
adding machine
Addison, Joseph
age of inventors
Albert, Antoine
Alcock
Alembert, Dâ
Allonville, Jacques EugĂšne, Chevalier de Louville, portable transit
ambulances, for soldiers
Amontons, Guillaume
AndrĂ©, lâaĂźnĂ©
Anel, Dominique
Angiviller, Comte dâ
appendicitis
Appert, Nicolas, on canning
Arcon, Dâ, see Le Michaud Argand, AimĂ© (also written Ami), his lantern
collaborated on hydraulic device
Arkwright, Richard
Arlandes, Marquis dâ
artificial limbs
Audemar
automata
Auxiron, C. F. J., Chevalier dâ, work with steamboat
Bachelier, Jean Jacques, painting in encaustic
other activities
Bacqueville, Marquis de, flight and fall
Bailly
balloon
two types
dirigibles
military
Ballooning Corps
bandages
Banks, Sir Joseph
Baseilhac, Jean, known as FrĂšre CĂŽme, lithotomist
Bayen
Beaudeau, Abbé
Beaudelocque, Jean Louis
Beaumarchais
bed, hospital
Belidor, Bernard Forest de, âglobes of compressionâ
Bellegarde
Belloc, Jean Louis
bellows
Bernoulli, Daniel
Berthelot, Claude François, hand mill
gun carriage
renunciation of monetary returns
Berthollet, Claude Louis, on scientific commission
on bleaching with chlorine
work with explosives
on dyes
on chemical nomenclature
instructor to Widmer
on Bureau of Consultation
renunciation of monetary returns
Berthoud, Ferdinand
Bessel
Betancourt
Biard, loom inventor
Biberon
Bichat, François Xavier, laid foundations of histology
Biheron, Mlle, wax figures
Blanchard, François, Channel flight
parachuting of animals
attempt at a dirigible balloon
flying machine
bleaching
Bonnemain, heating of homes with hot water
experimentation with incubator
devastating weapon
Bonvallet
Bordeu, Théophile de, on glands
Bouceret
Bouguer, Pierre
Bouillet, father and son
Bourcet, Pierre de
Bourgeois de Chùteaublanc, Dominique François, oil lantern
claim to the invention of Vaucansonâs duck
lighthouse
Braille
Bralle, François Joseph
Bramah, Joseph
Bréguet, Louis and Jacques
brevets dâinvention, in general
refused on steamboat
on distillation
refused on Argand lamp
on Carcel lamp
on Lebonâs gas lamp
on Robertâs process for paper
to Torré
b...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- I. The Balloon
- II. Steam Transportation
- III. The Telegraph
- IV. Lighting
- V. Papermaking
- VI. Chemical Inventions
- VII. Textiles
- VIII. Automata
- IX. Other Mechanical Devices
- X. Military Inventions
- XI. Medicine and Surgery
- XII. Patents and Encouragement
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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