spindles, 27, 73, 75, 88
spirals, 111–12
spirit levels, 16, 17, 149
spokeshaves, 27, 43
steam engines, 24, 76, 103, 104, 107–9, 110
steam hammers, 107
steel, 33, 35, 43, 62, 64
steelyards, 137
Stephenson, George, 108
surveying instruments, 17, 119, 125
tape measures, 16, 17
taps, 30, 64, 105
screw, 122, 123–24
telescopes, 14, 99
Ten Books on Architecture, The (Vitruvius), 115, 141
theodolite, 119
Thompson, John P., 83
tilt targe, 63
tire-bouchon, 35, 36
tire-fond, 35, 36
toggle and loop, 45
“To Move a Given Weight by a Given Force” (Archimedes), 138
tortoise, 121
tournaments, martial, 62–63
tourne à gauche, 36
tournevis, 32–35, 36, 44
trephines, 25
trispast, 124
try squares, 16, 148
tunnels, 102
turners, 88–89, 96, 101
turning catches, 62
turnscrews, 32, 43–44, 67
two-by-fours, 15
tylos, 121–22, 123
tympanum, 141–42
undertaker’s screwdriver, 32, 145
Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus, 115, 124, 136, 141, 142
watchmaking, 41, 72
waterwheels, 48, 140–42
wheel locks, 60
wheels, 24
book, 49, 50
Ferris, 49
spinning, 92
Whipple, Cullen, 77–78
White, Lynn, Jr., 24
Whitworth, Joseph, 105–6, 107–8, 109
William Marples & Sons, 42
windlasses, 137, 138–39
woodcutting, 15–16, 21, 41, 51
worm gears, 119, 120
wrenches, 30, 48, 54, 60, 80
Wyatt, Job and William, 75, 87–88, 90, 99
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