rance Company, 227
Trees, 26
Troy, 42
Tuberculosis, 273
Tungsten lamp, 161 _et seq._, 187, 261, 290, 303
Typhus, 273
Ultra-violet rays: 126, 150;
in photographic electricity, 267, 268; 270, 272, 294
United States: petroleum in, 57;
gas-consumption in, 99; 164, 165, 166
United States Geological Survey, cited on sale of gas, 222
United States Military Intelligence, 225, 226
Vacuum tubes, 81, 286
Venetians, 195
Ventilation, 13
Verne, Jules, 143
Vestal Virgins, 42
Volcanoes, 166
Volta, 111, 112, 127
Voltaic pile: construction of, 111, 127
Von Bolton. _See_ Bolton.
War: and artificial light, 11, 178-193
Washington, 305
Water: sterilization of, by artificial light, 280 _et seq._
Watson, Dr. Richard, 67, 68
Watt, 94
Waves: electro-magnetic, 68, 86, 125 _et seq._
Wax, 34, 46, 51
Way: mercury-arc produced by, 124
Wells, 61
Wells, H. G., cited, 148
Welsbach, Auer von: 61;
invention of mantle by, 99, 100, 133
Wenham, 78
West Indies, 25
Whale-oil, 31
Wicks, 35, 36, 53, 54, 58, 59
Winsor, 72, 73.
_See also_ Winzler.
Winzler. _See_ Winsor.
_Wolfram._ _See_ Tungsten.
Wood, 26, 27, 28
Woolworth Building, 302, 303
Wounds: treatment of, by artificial light, 10
X-ray: production of, tubes during War, 131; 137, 150, 270, 280
Young, James: discovers petroleum, 56
Yttria, 85
_Zeitung_, Cologne: 157;
extract from, on street-lighting, 158
Zinc, 125, 130, 267
Zirconia, 84, 85
Transcriber's List of Corrections
LOCATION
ORIGINAL
CORRECTED
Chapter II
and similiar material
and similar material
Chapter XIII
as a constant level
at a constant level
Chapter XIV
the carbons to distintegrate
the carbons to disintegrate
Chapter XV
John Pechham
John Peckham
coated with an allow
coated with an alloy
with various billiant
with various brilliant
key in depressed
key is depressed
Chapter XVI
has nearly doubled
have nearly doubled
Chapter XVII
this own indifference
their own indifference
Chapter XXIII
Nature's lighting varied
Nature's lighting varies
Chapter XXIV
so-called cade
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