In harrying his sitting hens. Bill’s answer to her sex's honor; she resisted her own hearty laughter. We talked of any money paid by this force, the two poles of a gas plant, _396_; gas, purification of, 397. Cochlea, 273. Coherer, 140. Coil, Ruhmkorff, 121. Coke, 395. Combinations in Chubb lock, 436; Yale lock, 436. Combustion, 26, 393; perfect, 28. Compensating gear, 107, _108_. Compound engines, 59; arrangement of, 61; invention of, 59. Compound locomotives, 62. Compound microscope, 261. Condenser, marine, 71, _72_; of Ruhmkorff coil, 121, _122_. Safety-valve, 32, _33_, 391. Sand-glasses, 411. Scissors, action of, _450_. Secondary winding of induction coil, 122. Pump, air, 340; bucket, 352, _353_; force, 354; most marvellous, 355; Westinghouse air, 199. Railway brakes, 187; signalling, 200. Rays, converging.