Brakes, 188; signalling, 228; stoker, 399. Backfall, 298. Balance-wheel, 419. Ball cock, 366, _367_. Balloon, fire, 323; gas, 347. Barometer, aneroid, 328, _329_; and weather, 331; Fortin's, _326_; meaning of, 325; simple, _328_; wheel, _327_. Beau de Rochas, 89. Bell, diving, _332_; electric, 119, _120_. Bellows 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 engine, 87. Iris of eye, but permitting the gas in chamber.