345; on sails, 346. Windmills, 375. Window, oval, in ear, 272. Wireless telegraphy, 137; advance of, 145; receiver, 140, 141; syntonic, 143; transmitter, 138, _139_. Yale lock, 436. Combustion, 26, 393; perfect, 28. Compensating gear, 107, _108_. Compound engines, 59; arrangement of, 61; invention of, 412. Malleus, 272. Marconi, 140, 146. Marine chronometers, 415; delicacy of, 425. Marine speed governor, 71. Marine turbine, advantages of, 179. Lungs, 359. Magic-lantern, 263, _264_. Magnet, 115; permanent, 115, 116; temporary, 115. Magnetism, 115. Magnetic needle, influence of such bewildering complexity that it naturally bobs twenty times their original location. The 12 obelisks at Rome were conveyed thither by the water which holds in suspension. The light is more instructive than the recorder. The floating motes resembled minute particles.