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J.A.Bagley read Mathematical Physics at Birmingham University, and learnt
to fly with University Air Squadron. He joined the Royal Aircraft
Establishment at Farnborough in 1952, and was engaged in research in the
Aerodynamics Department until 1976. His main field of research was
concerned with subsonic and transonic flow around swept wings and with the
aerodynamics of engine installations, on transport aircraft in particular. In
November 1976 he joined the Science Museum, London, as the curator in
charge of the Aeronautical Collection. He joined the Royal Aeronautical
Society as an Associate Fellow in 1961, and was elected a Fellow in 1976. He is
chairman of the Historical Group Committee of the Society.
Brian Bowers is an electrical engineer with a doctorate in the history of
technology. He has been a Curator in the Science Museum, London, since
1967, and was previously an Examiner in the British Patent Office. He has
been Chairman of the Institution of Electrical Engineers’ History of Technology
and Archives Committees, and is Editor of their History of Technology series. His
publications include a biography of Charles Wheatsone, a children’s biography
of Michael Faraday, and A History of Electric Light & Power. His main current
research interests are in the introduction of electricity supply, especially in the
home, and the relationships between T.A.Edison and electrical engineers in
Britain.
John Boyes has lately retired as a Principal Inspector of Factories in the Health
and Safety Executive of the British Civil Service. His professional experience
has led to a wide interest in technical, and particularly transport, history. As
the main author of The Canals of Eastern England (1977) he was awarded the first
Rolt Memorial Fellowship at Bath University. He has written and lectured
extensively on local history and is a member of the editorial committee of the
Victoria County History of Essex. He is a member of the Council of the
Newcomen Society and editor of its Bulletin; Past President of the Essex

Archaeological and Historical Congress; President of the Lea and Stort Rivers
Society; committee member of the wind and watermill section of the Society
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for the Protection of Ancient Buildings; contributor on international waterways
to waterway journals; and lecturer for, inter alia, the National Trust and the
Inland Waterways Association.
R.A.Buchanan is Reader in the History of Technology at the University of
Bath, and Director there of the Centre for the History of Technology, Science
and Society. He is the Secretary General of the International Committee for
the History of Technology, and a member of the Royal Commission of
Historical Monuments in England. He has written several books on
technological history and industrial archaeology, including Industrial
Archaeology in Britain (1972). He has recently become Director of the National
Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, at the
University of Bath, which is responsible for finding permanent homes in
libraries and archives for the manuscript papers of eminent scientists and
engineers.
A.K.Corry saw war service with RAF Bomber Command, then joined the
first British ‘sandwich course’ scheme set up by the Engineering
Institutions and Ministry of Education. He worked as a Production
Engineer in the automobile industry, subsequently taking up a post as a
lecturer at the Great Yarmouth College of Further Education, eventually
becoming Head of the Engineering Department. He was appointed
Regional Engineer for Industrial Administration Ltd., a management
consultancy company in 1961, developing group apprenticeship schemes,
and became a Technical Adviser to the Minister of Labour to work on the
Industrial Training Act. After a few years with Industry Training Board as
a Senior Adviser, he joined the Science Museum, London, in 1972 as an
Assistant Keeper. Until recently he was Deputy Keeper in the Department

of Mechanical and Civil Engineering with responsibility for National
Collections from manufacturing industries. He is Editor of the classic Tools
for the Job by L.T.C.Rolt (1986).
A.S.Darling began his career as a mechanical engineer. He moved into the
metallurgical industry and eventually became head of Metallurgical Research
at Johnson Matthey and Co. Since that time he has been involved in high
temperature alloy development at the British Ministry of Defence. He is the
author of many papers and articles on metallurgical and engineering subjects
and has been granted numerous Patents in this area.
Lance Day was educated at London University, where he took degrees in
Chemistry and in the History and Philosophy of Science. He joined the
Science Museum Library, London, in 1951 and became Assistant Keeper in
charge of Public Services. From 1970 to 1974 he was with the Department of
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Chemistry, where he was responsible for setting up the Iron and Steel Gallery,
opened in 1972. In 1974 he was appointed Keeper of the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Communications, where he was responsible for the
first permanent exhibition in the Museum’s East Block Extension, devoted to
printing and papermaking. From 1976 until his retirement in 1987 he was
Keeper of the Library. He made a number of major acquisitions in developing
the Library as the national reference source for the history of science and
technology, and was responsible for setting up a new section for the Museum’s
collections of pictures and archives. He was for many years Hon. Secretary
and Member of Council of the Newcomen Society. He is the author of Broad
Gauge, a Science Museum publication on the broad gauge and other rail
systems.
W.K.V.Gale comes from a family long employed in the iron and steel
industry. He started work in an iron foundry, moved to technical journalism,
and was metals editor of The Engineer from 1960 to 1972. Since 1972 he has

been a free-lance writer, specialising in all aspects of iron and steel, historical
and modern, and is a regular contributor to technical journals. He is a member
of The Institute of Metals, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Past
President of the Newcomen Society, the Staffordshire Iron and Steel Institute,
and the Historical Metallurgy Society. He is honorary adviser on iron and steel
to the Ironbridge Gorge and the Black Country Museums. He is the author of
a large number of articles in technical journals and society transactions and of
several books, including: The Black Country Iron Industry (1966) (2nd edition
1979), The British Iron & Steel Industry (1967), Iron and Steel (1969), The Iron &
Steel Industry: A Dictionary of Terms (1971) (2nd edition 1973), Historic Industrial
Scenes: Iron and Steel (1977).
John Griffiths is Curator at the Science Museum, London, having
responsibility for the Space Technology and Protective Clothing Collections.
He was educated at University College, London, from which he has a
doctorate, in Infra-red Astronomy.
Richard Hills read History and Education at Cambridge, where he also
began research into fen drainage history. This took him to Imperial College,
London, where his thesis was published as Machines, Mills and Uncountable Costly
Necessities (1967). In 1965 he moved to the University of Manchester Institute
of Science and Technology where his doctoral thesis was published as Power in
the Industrial Revolution (1970). Here he started the North Western Museum of
Science and Industry and collected the major exhibits now displayed at
Liverpool Road Station. He has also published A Life of Richard Arkwright
(1973), Beyer and Peacock: Locomotive Builders to the World (1982), Papermaking in
Britain 1488–1988 (1988) and Power from Steam (1989).
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Ian McNeil is of the fifth generation in his family to be blacksmiths or
engineers. After reading Engineering at Cambridge, his career has covered oil
exploration, research into gear transmission and gear pumps, and the world-

wide marketing of oil-hydraulic equipment. He is the author of Joseph Bramah: a
Century of Invention and The Industrial Archaeology of Hydraulic Power. He has
recently retired from the position of Executive Secretary of the Newcomen
Society for the Study of the History in Technology and Engineering, based in
the Science Museum, London. He is now, Rolt Research Fellow in the History
of Technology at the University of Bath where he is working on a history of
bellows.
J.Kenneth Major is an architect whose practice specialises in the repair of old
buildings and mills. He holds the qualifications of Bachelor of Architecture,
Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Fellow of the Society
of Antiquaries. He is currently Chairman of Council of The International
Molinological Society, and a member of the Committee of the Society for the
Protection of Ancient Buildings and of its Wind and Watermill Section. His
published works include Fieldwork in Industrial Archaeology (1975), Victorian and
Edwardian Windmills and Watermills from Old Photographs (with Martin Watts 1977),
Animal-Powered Engines (1978), Animal-Powered Machines (1985) and A Pocketbook of
Watermills and Windmills (1986). His repair of the 36ft-diameter waterwheel,
pumps and cascade at Painshill Park in Surrey, UK was completed in
December 1988 and received a Civic Trust Commendation.
Charles Messenger was educated at Sandhurst and Oxford, where he read
History. He was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment in 1961, and
served as a regular army officer until 1980. He is now a freelance military
historian and defence analyst. During 1982–3 he was a Research Fellow at the
Royal United Services Institute, London, and is currently Associate Editor of
Current Military Literature and military consultant to a number of publishers.
Among his many published works are The Art of Blitzkrieg (1976), Bomber Harris
and the Strategic Bombing Offensive 1939–45 (1984), The Commandos 1940–1946
(1985) and Hitler’s Gladiator (1987), a biography of SS General Dietrich.
Herbert Ohlman has a BS degree in physics from Syracuse University and an
MS in computer science from Washington University in St. Louis. He was a

staff member of several multinational corporations and non-profit
organisations in the United States until 1972, when he joined the World
Health Organization. Since 1980, he has been an independent consultant in
microcomputing and communications based in Geneva. He is the inventor of
permutation indexing, one of the first mechanized indexing systems, and the
author of articles in information science and technology, particularly applied to
health, education and library systems. He was the founding chairman of the
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Special Interest Group on Education for Information Science of the American
Society for Information Science, and a Chairman of the Special Interest Group
on Information Retrieval of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Andrew Patterson was educated at Haileybury, and London University’s
Wye College of Agriculture. He farmed in West Wales between 1973 and
1979, earning little, but learning much. He joined the Science Museum,
London, in January 1980 as Research Assistant to the Agricultural Collection,
and was promoted to Assistant Keeper with responsibility for the collection in
October 1983. In 1986 he joined the Yorkshire Museum of Farming as Keeper
of Social and Agricultural History with additional responsibility for the
collections at the Upper Dales Folk Museum at Hawes. He is a Founder
Member and Vice-Chairman of the Historic Farm Buildings Group,
established to co-ordinate recording, and increase awareness of this fast-altering
historic resource.
A.W.H.Pearsall read History at Cambridge University, then saw service in
the Royal Navy 1944–7, joined the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,
UK first as Research Assistant, then as Custodian of Manuscripts, and
subsequently as Historian. He is Vice-President of the Navy Records Society
and member of the Publications Committee, member of the Committee of the
Fortress Study Group and of the Association of British Transport Museums,
and formerly member of Council of Society of Archivists. His Publications

include North Irish Channel Services (1962) and Steam enters the North Sea in Arne
BangAndersen et al. The North Sea (1985).
P.J.G.Ransom has been studying the history of railways for forty years and
writing about it for more than twenty. His books include The Victorian Railway
and How it Evolved (1989), Scottish Steam Today (1989), The Archaeology of the
Transport Revolution 1750–1850 (1984), The Archaeology of Railways (1981), and
Railways Revived (an account of preserved steam railways) (1973). He has been
actively involved in railway preservation since the early days of the Talyllyn
Railway Preservation Society in the 1950s. He was for some years on Board of
the Festiniog Railway Society Ltd., and is currently on the council of the
Association of the Railway Preservation Societies.
E.F.C.Somerscales read engineering at the University of London, received his
doctorate from Cornell University in 1965, and is currently Associate
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, New York. He is the chairman of the History and Heritage Committee of
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and has written a dozen papers
on the history of mechanical engineering. In addition to the history of
engineering, his teaching and research interests are in the areas of heat transfer
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and fluid mechanics, and he is currently involved in research on the corrosion
and fouling of heat transfer surfaces. In 1988 he received the Bengough Medal
from the Institute of Metals. He has over 30 publications on various aspects of
heat transfer, and was the co-editor of Fouling of Heat Transfer Equipment (1981).
Doreen Yarwood is a professional author and artist, specialising in the
history of architecture and design, including costume and interior decoration,
in Europe and the United States over the last 3000 years. Trained in art and
design, until 1948 she lectured in a number of institutions and in the
Women’s Royal Air Force. Subsequently she turned to writing full-time and
has published 19 books—including The Architecture of Europe (4 vols., 1974 and

1990), Encyclopedia of Architecture (1985) and Science and the Home (1987).
Doreen Yarwood currently divides her time between new publishing projects
and her position as an extra-mural lecturer for the universities of Sussex,
Surrey and London.

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Abernathy, James 242
Abruzzo, Ben L. 613
Abt, Roman 584
Ackermann, Rudolph 449, 678
Adam, Robert 871, 916
Adams, Robert 985
Adams, W.Bridges 580
Adamson, D. 286
Adamson, Robert 733
Ader, Clément 620
Aeschylus 69, 388
Agricola (=Georg Bauer) 14, 80, 187, 196, 232,
264
Aitken, Harold H. 41, 702
Albert, Prince Consort 104, 201, 894
Albone, Dan 788–9
Alder 417
Aldus Manutius 671
Alexander the Great 74
Alexanderson, Ernst F.W. 726, 745
Alhazen of Basra 730
Allan 380
Allen, Bryan 647
Allen, Horatio 562

Allen, J.F. 284
Alleyne, Sir John 175
Allport, James 578, 579
Ames, B.C. 421
Amman, Jost 390
Ampère, André-Marie 357, 714
Anderson, John 33–5
Anderson, Max L. 613
Anthelm, Ludwig 854
Anthemios of Tralles 880
Apollonium of Perga 885
Appert, Nicolas 798
Appleby 783
Appleton, Sir Edward 728, 998
Arago, François 383
Archer, Frederick Scott 733
Archer, Thomas 672
Archimedes 18
INDEX OF NAMES
Argand, Ami 211, 913
Aristophanes 71
Aristotle 16, 58, 187
Arkwright, Sir Richard 266, 827–32, 839
Arlandes, Marquis d’ 610
Armengaud (the elder) 242
Armengaud, R. 332
Armstrong, Edwin 728
Armstrong, Neil 654
Armstrong, W.G. 40, 244, 351, 961
Arnold, A. 839

Arsonval, J.A. d’ 375
Ashley 198
Askin, Charles 98
Aspdin, Joseph 466, 889
Atanasoff, John V. 702
Atwood, Ellis D. 606
Aubert, Jean 485
Austin (textile engineer) 843
Austin, Herbert 452
Ayrton, W.E. 375, 376

Babbage, Charles 31, 398, 699–701
Bachelier, Nicholas 484
Backus, John 704
Bacon, Roger 648, 975
Baekeland, Leo Hendrik 218, 220
Baeyer, Adolf von 202, 218
Bain, Alexander 696, 743
Baird, John Logie 745
Baker, Sir Benjamin 955
Bakewell, Frederick 743
Baldwin, Matthias 573
Baldwin, Thomas 611
Ball, Major Charles 117
Bamberger 54
Barber, John 329
Barclay, Henry 408
Barclay, Robert 678
Bardeen, John 42, 703
Barlow, Peter 468

Barnett, M.F. 728, 998
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Barry, Sir Charles 894
Barsanti, Eugenio 305
Bartlett, C.C. 100
Basov, N.G. 737, 738
Bateman, J.F. La Trobe 241, 952, 954
Baudot, Emile 715
Bauer, Andreas 675
Bauer, Georg see Agricola
Bauer, H. 852
Bauer, S.W.V. 537
Baumann, K. 297
Bayer, Karl Joseph 112
Bayly, Sir Nicholas 90
Bazalgette, Joseph 956–7
Beau de Rochas, Alphonse 305
Beaumont, Huntingdon 555
Beavan, E.J. 849
Becker, H. 1005
Becquerel, Henri 213, 1005
Bedson, George 175
Beebe, Charles William 553
Beeching, Dr R. 599
Behr, F.B. 586
Bélidor, Bernard Forest de 233–4, 982
Bell (textile engineer) 835
Bell, Alexander Graham 538, 719, 721, 965
Bell, Henry 35, 527, 912

Bell, Hugh 105
Bell, Sir Lowthian 105
Bell, Revd Patrick 782
Belling, C.R. 917, 944
Bennet, Revd Abraham 373
Benson, Dr E.W. 98
Bentham (engineer) 30
Bentley, J.F. 891
Benz, Karl 37, 310, 311, 449, 450–51, 454
Berliner, Emile 721
Berry, A.F. 373
Berry, Clifford 702
Berry, George 786
Berry, Henry 477–8
Bertholet 56
Berthollet, Claude Louis 205, 835
Berthoud, Ferdinand 392
Berzelius, Baron Jöns Jakob 201, 743
Besant 438
Bessemer, Sir Henry 167–70, 171, 177
Besson, Jacques 393
Bethell, John 208
Bettini, Gianni 722
Bewick, Thomas 678
Bienvenu 641
Bigelow, E.G. 846
Bigelow, Erasmus B. 905
Bilgram, Hugo 411
Bion, Nicolas 668
Birdseye, Clarence 798

Biringuccio, Vannoccio 187, 396
Birkeland, Kristian 384
Biró, Georg and Ladisla 669
Bissell, G.H. 211
Bissell, Melville R. 924
Bissell, Melville R., jun. 927
Bisson brothers 733
Black, Harold S. 749
Black, Joseph 609
Blackett, Christopher 559
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre-François 614
Blanquert-Evrard, L.D. 733
Blenkinsop, John 559
Blériot, Louis 625
Blickensderfer 683
Blith, Walter 774
Bloch, Joseph 851
Block, I.S. 989
Blondel, N F. de 982
Blumlein, Alan D. 723
Bodley, George 941
Bodmer, John George 411
Bogardus, James 894
Bohr, Niels 213, 1005
Bollée family 259
Bolton, W. von 133, 143
Bond, George 406
Boole, George 701
Booth, Henry 561, 563
Booth, Hubert Cecil 925, 926

Borchers, Wilhelm 123
Borelli, Giovanni 553, 646
Borol, A. 459
Borries, August von 582
Bosch, Carl 775
Bosch, Robert 311
Bothe, W.W.G.F. 1005
Böttger, Johann Friedrich 192–3
Bouch, Sir Thomas 463
Boulle, André Charles 908
Boulton, Matthew 28, 34, 91, 155, 275–6, 325,
403
Bourn, D. 830
Bourne, William 537
Bourseul, Charles 718
Bousquet, Gaston du 582
Boutheroue, Guillaume 483
Bouton, Georges 447
Bowser, Sylvanus F. 459
Boxer, Colonel E.M. 984
Boyd, T.A. 317
Boyden, Uriah A. 243
Boyle, Robert 33, 189
Bradley, Charles S. 107
Brady, Mathew 733
Bramah, Joseph 29, 40, 404, 921, 961
Bramante of Florence 28
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Branca, Giovanni de 290

Brandling, J.C. 559
Branly, Edouard 725
Brassey, Thomas 470, 565, 575
Brattain, Walter 42, 703
Braun (instrument-maker) 376
Braun, Ferdinand 744
Braun, Wernher von 649, 650, 651, 656, 747,
754
Braunschweig, Hieronymus 187
Brayton, G.B. 310
Brearley, Harry 174
Breguet, Louis 641–2, 696
Brennan, Louis 586
Breuer, Marcel 910
Brewster, Sir David 733, 735
Bricklinn, Dan 707
Briggs, Henry 698
Brindley, James 439, 477–8
Brocq 995
Brode, John 83
Brooman, Richard 419
Brown, Charles 385
Brown, Joseph 407
Brown, Joseph R. 408, 409, 411
Brown, Samuel (first internal combustion
engine) 305
Brown, Lieutenant Samuel (chain cable) 541
Brownrigg, William 129
Bruce, David 679
Brueghel, Jan 232

Brueghel, Pieter (the elder) 248, 780
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 35, 401, 403, 527,
528, 529, 565, 568, 572, 895
Brunel, Marc Isambard 30, 398, 404, 468, 552,
847, 854, 890
Brunelleschi, Filippo 24, 731, 881
Brunner, John 222
Bryan, G.H. 622, 626
Büchi, A. 315, 316
Buck, J. 411
Buckle, William 403
Bull, JohnWrathall 781
Bullard, E.P. 414
Bunning 896
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm 103, 107, 113, 114,
210, 353
Burgess, G.K. 141
Burgi, Joost 695, 698
Burgin, Emile 360–61
Burks, Arthur W. 702
Burton, Decimus 895
Burton, James Henry 406
Bury, Edward 564, 566, 573
Bush, Vannevar 750–51
Bushnell, David 537, 996
Bussy, Antoine-Alexander-Brutus 113
Butler, Edward 450
By, Colonel John 507

Cameron, Julia Margaret 733

Campbell, Wilfred 298–9
Campbell-Swinton, A.A. 745
Caquot, Albert 613
Carcel 914
Cardano, Girolamo 731
Cardew, Philip 376
Carlson, Chester 736
Carnot, Sadi 343
Caro, Heinrich 202
Carolus, Johann 672
Caron, H. 113
Carothers, Wallace H. 218, 219, 850
Carter, John 84
Cartwright, Revd Edmund 834, 839
Cary, John 461
Casablanca, Fernando 841
Casement, Robert 240
Casseli, Giovanni 744
Castner, Hamilton Y. 105, 224–5
Caxton, William 27, 671, 672
Cayley, Sir George 39, 342, 472, 617–19, 641
Cecil, William 305
Celestine III, Pope 246
Cellini, Benvenuto 68
Chadwick, Edwin 956
Chadwick, James 213
Chambers, Austin 571
Chambers, Sir William 871
Champion, Nehemiah 85–6
Champion, Richard 193

Champion, William 87–9
Chanute, Octave 621–2
Chapelon, André 597–8
Chappe, Abraham 713
Chappe, Claude 711, 713
Chapman, Frederic af 524
Charlemagne, Emperor 79, 494, 956
Charles, Jacques Alexander César 610
Charles XII, King of Sweden 501
Chevenard, P. 126
Chevreul, Michel Eugène 913
Childe, V.Gordon 5
Chopping, Henry 258
Christensen, C. 736
Christie, S.H. 375
Church, William 680
Churchward, G.J. 590
Cierva, Juan de la 642
Clark, Edward 851
Clark, Edwin 482, 486, 493
Clarke, Arthur C. 747
Clarke, Sir Clement 83
Claus, C.E. 131
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Clay, Henry 909
Clegg, Samuel 40, 209, 570, 958
Clement, Joseph 31
Clement, William 24
Clements, Joseph 398, 399

Clerk, Dugald 307, 315, 317, 454
Clinton, DeWitt 511
Clymer, Floyd 675
Coade family 871
Cobbett, William 801
Cockerell, Christopher 538
Codd 198
Coignet, François 890, 891
Coles, Captain Cowper 533
Collins, Captain Greenvile 546
Colt, Samuel 985, 996
Columbus, Christopher 21, 801
Columella 779
Confucius 2
Congreve, Sir William 648, 986
Cook, Maurice 123
Cooke, William F. 41, 357, 358, 572, 714, 965
Cookworthy, William 193
Coolidge, W.D. 133
Copeland, L.D. 447
Copernicus, Nicolaus 672
Corliss, G.H. 282–3
Cornu, Paul 641–2
Corson, Michael 124
Cort, Henry 157, 162
Cosnier, Hugues 483
Cotchett, Thomas 824
Cotton, William 847
Couchon, Basile 822
Coulomb, Charles Augustin de 373

Cousteau, Jacques 553
Coutelle, Charles 611
Coutts, Angela Burdett 931
Cowles, Alfred and Eugene 106
Crampton, T.R. 569
Craufurd, Commander H.V. 95
Crawford, J.W.C. 219
Croesus, King 27
Croll, A.A. 942
Crompton, R.E.B. 360–61, 367, 372, 944
Crompton, Samuel 832–3
Crompton, Thomas 674
Cronstedt, Axel 97
Crookes, W. 725
Cros, Charles 720
Cross, C.F. 849
Crowther, J.G. 42
Cruickshank, William 352
Ctesibius of Alexandria 16
Cubitt, Lewis 896
Cubitt, Sir William 256, 264
Cugnot, Nicolas 441, 453
Cumming, Alexander 921
Curie, Marie and Pierre 213
Curr, John 556
Curtis, C.G. 293–4

Daft, Leo 584
Dagron 733
Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé 732

Dahl 124
Daimler, Gottlieb 37, 311, 315, 447, 448, 449,
450–51, 454, 615
Dale, David 832
Dalen, Gustav 942
Dalrymple, Alexander 546
Dalton, John 189, 212–13
Dancer, J.B. 733
Daniell, John Frederic 353
Darby, Abraham 84–5, 153–4, 207, 893
Darby, Abraham, III 156, 465
Davenport, Thomas 378
Davidson, Robert 378, 584
Davy, Sir Humphrey 102, 113, 209, 224, 352,
354–5, 774
Dawson, William 847
De Boer 141
de Dion, Count Albert 447
de Forest, Lee 41, 720, 726–7, 742
de Havilland, Geoffrey 626
Deacon, Henry 205, 222
Deane, Sir Anthony 524
Deck, J.T. 194
Deering, William 783
Defoe, Daniel 91, 434
Degen, Jakob 641
Delauney, L. 711
Delisle, Romé 129
della Porta, Francesco 32
della Porta, Giacomo 881

della Porta, Giambattista 273
della Robbia, Luca 192
Delvigne, Captain Henri-Gustave 983
Democritus 212
Deprez, Marcel 381
Desvignes 739
Devereux, Colonel W.C. 122
Deverill, Hooton 848
Deville, Henri Lucien Sainte-Claire 103, 104,
107, 109, 111, 113
Devol, George 426
Dickinson, J.T. 850
Dickinson, Robert 398
Dickson 219
Dickson, William 741
Diderot, Denis 236
Diesel, Rudolph 37, 311, 313, 322, 454
Diggle, Squire 844
Dinesen, Hans 538