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402 Damping paper for bank notes, 61.

Depreciation of coin, 176; of paper, ib.

Diamond, glaziers', 8.

Dies, copying, 150.

Difficulties opposed to the cultivation of abstract science, 454.

Difficulty in distinguishing single press lace, 185.

Dimensions, copying with altered, 147.

Diminution in value of different articles in 1812—1832, 205.

Dishes, pewter, at the court of the Sultan Bello, 2 (note).

Distinction between making and manufacturing, 163, c. 18.

Distribution of wealth, extract from the Rev. R. Jones's Essay, 3; of labour in mines, 252.

Diving vessel, 338.

Division of the objects of machinery, 15; of labour, 217, c. 19; suggests the contrivance of tools and machinery, 224; of mental labour, 241, c. 20.

Doctoring trefoil, clover, &c. 183.

Dolls' eyes, 300.

Domestic and political economy of manufactures, 163; c. 13.

Donkin's counting machine, 65.

Drawback, 275.

Drawing wire, 141_ tube, 142.

Drawings, Egyptian, 56.

Draw-plate, 141.

Dressing ores, 307.

Drilling engine, 221.

Drug trade, 189.

Durability in articles, 197.

Duration of machinery, 340, c. 29.

Duty on printing paper, 2460; on Calico printing, 422.

Earthquake at Odessa, 76; measurer, ib..

Economical principles of machinery, 163.

Economy of human time, 6; of employed materials, 78; of raw produce, 270.

Effect of atmosphere, of wheels, and of horses' feet, on roads, 301; of machinery in reducing the demand for labour, 404, c. 32; of taxes and of legal restrictions on manufactures, 414, c. 33.

Egyptian drawing, 56.

Elongation, copying with, 140.

Embossing on china, 114; on calico, 121; on leather, 122.

Embroidered net, 429.

Emery powder, 62.

Employment of materials of little value 9. See also.

Engine, shoe-last making, 151; for copying busts, 152.

England, proportion of agriculturists and non-agriculturists in every hundred persons in, 3.

England and France, communication between, 451. See also.

English manufacture of pins, 236.

Engraving on steel, 85; on metal, 88; on wood, 92; by pressure, 124; bank notes, 124, 125; from medals, machine to produce, 155.

Engravings of various sizes from same plate, 154.

Evaporation of water of brine-springs, 50, 51.

Exchange, money as a medium of, 166, c. 14.

Expense of printing the present volume, 256.

Experiment on degrees of force, by M. Rondelet, 5; Le Vaillant's, 23; on printing ink, 78; M. Perronnet's on brass wire, 228.

Experiments on the gun barrel, 23; on porters' loads, 33.

Explosion, reasoning on the theory of, 25.

Exportation of machinery, 437, c. 34.

Factories, causes and consequences of large, 263, c. 22; position of large, 277, c. 23; accumulation of, 279; removal of, 280; important suggestions, ib.; system, 426.

Fatigue, 32.

Flashing of window-glass, 42.

Flax, Irish, 184.

Fiints, 62.

Fluids, suspension of powders in, 62.

Fly-wheel, 21.

Fly or vane, 30.

Force, M. Rondelet, experiment on, 5.

Forces, extending the time of action of, 45, c. 5; too great for human power, 56, c. 7.