Miracles of Science

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913. Excerpt: ... INDEX Abbott, Professor C. G., uses the bolometer and other instru-ments to determine the solar constant, 108. Aeroplane, time it would require to explore the solar system, 30; invented by the Wright Bros., 297; record flights, 300; prac-tical uses, 303; as an instrument of war, 304. Agglutinins, their development, 211. Airship, stabilized by gyroscopes, 274. Alchemy, the new, 122. Algol, a famous variable star, shown by Vogel to be a spec-troscopic binary, 96; its interest-ing changes visible to the naked eye, 99. Alpha Centauri, our nearest star neighbor, 42; is 26,000,000,000,-000,000 miles distant, 46; if it had planetary attendants they would be invisible, 91; is a bi-nary star, 93. Alpha ray, consists of atoms of helium carrying a double charge of positive electricity, 113; shows transformation of one element into another, 114; how it affects the blood, 238. Anaemia, pernicious, treated with Thorium X, 236. Anaphylaxis, explained by side-chain theory, 228. Andromeda, the large nebula in, 7. Animal tissues, grown outside the body by Drs. Harrison, Carrel, and Burrows, 165. Anopheles, mosquitoes of this genus transmit malaria, 249. Anti-bodies, their development and use in fighting diseases, 211; their presence demonstrated by the action of the white blood corpuscles, 214. Antidotes to the bacterial poisons as supplied by nature, 211; the prodigal supply of, 212. Antitoxins, their development and use, 211. Anti-typhoid vaccine, developed by Sir Almroth Wright, 209; its use made obligatory in the U. S. Army, 251. Arrhenius, Svante, his theory of the origin of nebulae, 21; his ion theory, 102; estimates the size of a particle that will be driven before the light waves, 112; explains the tails of comets, the sun's corona, and the aurora borealis, 112. At...