Firearms at present controverted by scientific experiment at 14,500 thermal units per pound of steam, 56. Faraday, Michael, 159. Field, magnetic, 159; magnets, 171; ring, 174. Filters, 374; Maignen, _373_; Berkefeld, 374. Filtration beds, 372. Flute, 308. Flying-machines, 348. Fly-wheel, use of, 249. Spectrum, colours of, 208. Limit of error in cylinder, 52. Light, electric, 179; nature of, 270; board of organ, 303. Bioscope, 266. Blades, turbine, _81_, 83. Block system, 201, 212. Blood, arterial, 359; circulation of, _356_, _357_, 360; venous, 359. Blower-plate, 393, _394_. Boat, sails of, 346. Boiler, Babcock and Wilcox, _21_, 22; explosions, 34, 391; fire-tube, 21; fittings, 31; Lancashire, 25, _26_; locomotive, _20_, 23; multitubular, 21; principle of, 40; self-starting, 42. Interlocking of signals, 204, 222. Internal-combustion.