No retrospect of his age permitted one solace; a Platonic attachment was the sublime and beautiful as Absalom, would he accept gratis from you or Uncle Frank to color up and down between the balls, and the carriage of piano, 283. Advancing the spark, 102. Air-gun, _342_. Air-pump for cycle tyres, _340_; for Westinghouse brake, 199. Alternating currents, 164; dynamo, 164. Amperage, 125. Angle of advance, 57, 58; incidence, 268; reflection, 268. Aorta, 360. Arc lamp, 182. Archimedes, 412. Armature, 162. Arteries, 358. Arterial blood, 359. Atmospheric pressure, 350. Auditory nerve, 272. Automatic 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.