Bird, tailor, of India, 346
Blakey, William, devises tubular
boiler, 12
Blanchard, Thomas, birth and
early life, 107; copied busts
on lathe in National Capitol,
104; details of design, 106;
builds a forge, 107; makes an
apple-parer, 108; makes tacks
and a tack machine, 109; its
details, 110, III; designs a
lathe guided by a cam, 112;
invents copying lathe, 113; its
uses and modifications, 115;
advocates a railroad for Mas-
sachusetts, 115; builds the
Vermont, Massachusetts, and
other steamers, 116; designs a
machine for bending timber,
116, 117; becomes an expert
in patent cases, 118
Bloodgood, Abraham, revolving
turret, 255
Blower, centrifugal, Ericsson,
Blunt, Colonel S. E., modern
rifle Springfield Armory com-
pared with Whitney musket,
Boiler, water-tube, Stevens, ad-
vantages, 13; used by Fulton,
58
Boyce, Joseph, cutters for reap-
ers, 281
Brack, William R., on Ottmar
Mergenthaler, 415
Braithwaite, John, partner of
John Ericsson, 221
Bramah, Joseph, revolving cut-
ters, 106
British inventors beginning 19th
century, 280
Brown, Thomas and Joseph,
build Ogle reaper, 282
Bushnell, David, torpedoes, 47
Day, Jeremiah, teacher of S. F.
B. Morse, 122
De Forest, James, befriends
Charles Goodyear, 185
De Forest, William, befriends
Charles Goodyear, 196
Delamater, Cornelius H., friend-
ship with John Ericsson, 242;
advances half cost Destroyer,
264
Densmore, James, buys part
Sholes' patent, 327, 328; fac-
simile of letter to E. D. Inger-
soll, 329
Dickens, Charles, copies Sholes'
recital of murder, 320
Digesters for wood pulp, faulty
and improved, 376
Distribution of type, 395; of
matrices in linotype, 397, 428
Dodge, Philip T., president
Mergenthaler Linotype Co.,
partner of John Braithwaite,
employs compressed air to
transmit motive-power, de-
vises centrifugal blower, 221;
invents surface condenser,
places machinery of Victory
below water-line, invents
steam fire engine, 222; "Nov-
elty" locomotive, 223; steam-
jet motor, 224; over-estimates
value in energy of fuel, re-
generator, invents caloric en-
gine, 225; marriage, 228;
aloofness and its penalty, de-
signs screw propeller, tests it
with success, 229; designs a
direct-acting engine for pro-
pulsion, alliance with Robert
F. Stockton, 230; goes to
New York, 232; designs steam
frigate Princeton, wins prize
for fire engine, propellers
widely adopted, 232; fatality
on the Princeton, 233; rein-
forces guns with hoops, 234;
Government refuses payment
for designing Princeton, 235;
writes in distress to John D.
Sargent, naturalized in 1848,
236; devises a pyrometer,
builds large caloric engines,
237; designs and builds the
Ericsson caloric ship, 238;
wrecked, 239; its subsequent
career, 240; reviews caloric
principle with confidence, many
small caloric engines used with
profit, 241; Swedish songs,
242; an accomplished drafts-
man, 243; designs, names, and
builds the Monitor, 244; de-
tails, 247; her fight with the
Merrimac, 249; congratula-
tions, 251; writes John
Bourne defending Monitor de-
sign, 253; plans six monitors
for U. S. Navy, 256; designs
the Dictator and the Puritan,
257; plans series shallow gun-
boats, 258; gives Sweden a
Rodman gun and plans vessels
for her defense, designs gun-
boats for Cuba, 259; rotary
gun-carriage, devises torpedo,
262; plans the Destroyer,
with submarine gun, 263;
plans vessel for coast defense,
265; improvements of steam
engine reviewed, 266; love of
country, 267; honors from
Sweden, monument in birth-
place, 267; gift to Jonas Ols-
son, a playmate, gift to starv-
ing Swedes, death of mother,
268; generosity to kindred
and friends, a degree from
University of Lund, solar
motor, 269, 270; homes in
New York, 271; personal
traits, 272; methods of
thought and work, simple reg-
imen and housekeeping, 273;
serenaded by Swedish soci-
eties, 274; last illness, death,
remains borne to Sweden for
interment, 275
Farragut, Admiral D. G., on
monitors, 252
Fisher, George, advances capital
to Elias Howe, 348
Fitch, John, steamboat, 7, 55
Forest Products Laboratory, ex-
periments with woods for pa-
per pulp, 379
Fort, Arthur, sued by Miller &
Whitney, 83
Foucault, typewriter, 327
Fox, Gustavus Vasa, assistant
secretary U. S. Navy, supports
John Ericsson, 248
Francis, William,
William,
typewriter,
323; inked ribbon, 326
Franklin Institute Journal on
reaper patents, 296; on Tilgh-
man sand blast, 381
Fulton, Robert, his steamboat
monopoly abolished, 17; birth,
41; early life, 41; admires
West's pictures, 42; learns
gunsmithing, 42; builds a boat
driven by paddle-wheels, 43;
practises painting, 44; sailed
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