Volume 1

The world of wonders : a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art.

Date:
1883-1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world of wonders : a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Sound, The Power of •■•359 Sounding, A Wonderful ... 58 *Sounding Stones and Speak- ing Heads 137 *Speaking-Machines ... 137, 334 Speaking-Trumpet, The ... 235 Spider Silk ... ... ... 323 Spider, Taming a ... ... 91 Spider, The Garden... ... 146 Spiders in Ceylon ... ... 274 Spider's Thread,The... ... 56 Spiders, African ... .••331 Spider's Web, Wonderful ... 186 Spontaneous Combustion ... 331 Spots on the Sun ... ... 323 Spotted Boy, The ... ... 30 Square, The Magic ... ... 54 Stale Loaf, A very ... •••315 Star from the Earth, The Dis- tance of a ... ... ... 211 Stars, Eccentric Movement of the Fixed ... ... ... 290 *Stars, A Ball of 272 St. Bartholomew, Massacre of 394 Statistics, Wonderful 67, ill Statue, Colossal, of Bavaria... 367 Steam-Building ... ... 403 Steam-Engine, The ... ... 266 .Stereoscope, The ... ... 267 Steam-Engine, Marquis of Worcester's Invention of the 314 Steam-Hammer, The ... 91 Steam-Engine and Human Body Compared ... ... 142 *.St. Mark's, Venice ... ... 309 St. Vitus's Dance ... ... 170 .Stonehenge ... ... ... 156 Stones, Pictures in ... ... 354 * Stones, Umbrella ... 165 *Stra.sburg, Great Clock at ... 15 Sun-Dial, Invention of the ... 342 Sun, Spots on the ... ... 323 Suns, Mock ... ... ... 12 Superstition, Curious Ancient 378 Surveying, Exact ... ... 47 *Sword-Fish ... ... ... 144 Syringe, The Fire 204 T. Table-Cloth at the Cape 254 Tahitans, Ingenuity of the ... 362 Tails, Men with ... ... 206 Talking Birds... 395 Telegraph, Curious Anticipa- tion of the Electric ... 244 Telegraph, The Atlantic ... 198 ■'Telescope, Lord Rosse's ... 415 PAGE - Temperature, Wonders of ... 227 Tench, Voice of ... ... 172 Terraces, Wonderful... ... 282 Thames Tunnel, The ... 267 Thugs, The Indian ... ... 238 Thunder-storms ... ... 319 Tide, A Wonderful ... ... 151 Tippoo Sultan ... ... iii Toads, Showers of ... ... 243 Toadstools, Resistless Force of Growing ... ... ... 326 Toadstools, The Seeds of 361 Tobacco into England, Intro- duction of ... ... ... 378 Tortoise, Gigantic ... ... 274 *Torture ... ... ... 164 *Tower, The Porcelain, of Nankin ... ... ... 409 Trade Winds ... ... ... 163 *Trajan, The Column of ... 180 'Tree of Orotava, The Dragon 401 Trees, Aged and Curious, 103, 126, 150 Trees, Gigantic, of California 271 Trial, Extraordinary Criminal 227 Trilobite ... 275 *Tririidad, The Pitch Lake of 113 *Tropical Vegetation ... ... 92 Tuhp Mania, The 123 Tunnel, The Box ... ... 298 *Tun,The Great, of Heidelberg 73 U. Ulloa's Circle... ... .. 12 *UmbrelIa Stones ... ... 165 V. Vase, The Story of the Portland 171 Vases, Prize, from Games at Athens 411 Vegetable Life, Tenacity of... 102 * Vegetation, Freaks of ... 25 Vegetation, Luminous ... 46 *Vegetation, Wonders of, 159, 173, 162, 178, 388, 399 Vehmgerichte, The ... ... 246 Vendetta, The 307 Venetian Glass ... ... 202 ■*Venice, St. Mark's 309 Ventriloquism ... ... 231 *Venus' Fly-Trap, DionKa or 204 Vibrations of the Air... ... 331 Violent Wind, Effects of ... 240 Voice, Remarkable Recovery of 135 Volcano, First Descent into a 242 I ^Volcanoes Under Water ... 321 Voyage, A Wonderful ... 67 W. War Horses .. 46 *Wasp, The 356 Watch Found in a Shark ... 375 Water, A Man who lived Twenty Days on 82 Waters, Palace of, at Con- stantinople ... ... ... 158 Water, Expansive Power of... 339 Water, The Heaviest ... 320 *Water under Pressure as a Motive Power ... ... 183 * Water, Volcanoes under ... 321 Waterfalls, Wonderful ... 236 * Waterspouts ... ... ... 229 Waterton ... ... ... 318 Waves, Motion of ... ■•- 331 Wear of English Coins, The... 295 Web, Wonderful Spider's ... 156 Weed, A Wonderful... ... 121 Weighing the Earth ... ... 296 *Welwitschia, The ... ... 173 *Wells and Plot Springs ... 353 Wesley, Charles ... ... 51 Whale, Power of the ... 96 * Wheel Animalcule, The ... 335 *White Ant Family, The ... 129 Whitworth's Measuring Ma- chines ... .. ... 99 Wild Man in London ... 30 Will, A Curious 36 Wind, A Ride on the ... 411 Wind, Effects of Violent ... 240 Winds, Trade... ... ... 163 *Winkelried at the Battle of Sempach ... ... ... 97 Wolf, Tame 28 *Women, The Bravery of 9, 153 Women, Small Feet of Chi- nese... ... ... ... 259 *Wonderful Country, A ... 209 *Wood-Carving by the New Zealanders ... ... ... 212 Worcester, Marquis of, and Steam-Engines ... ... 314 Workmanship, Wonders of Minute 163 World, Inside 0/the... ... 303 Worm, Wonderful ... ... 323 Worms, Destructive Po\\ ersof 170 Y. Yard Measure, The 310 Yeast, a Plant 40 Yews and Oaks, Aged ... i'50 LIST OF SEPARATE PLATES. Niagara in Winter Frontispiece The Pyramids To J ace page i] The Giant Geyser ' ,, 45 The Court of Lions, Alhambra 87 Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse ,, 166 Pearl Fishing 193 The Falls of the Zambesi ... ,, 230 The Aurora Borealis ,, 262 An Avalanche .. ... .. ... - ,, 270 The Pneumatic Despatch ,, 374 Laying the Atlantic Cable..\, ,, 391