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Tammanoid
150; creatures, 150; Tammany Hall was the name given to the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in New York City politics from the 1790s to the 1960s. Wikipedia entry

Tarahumanara Indians
23; of Northern New Mexico

Tarot
186;

Tate, Professor
131; three dimensions

Telluric Interior
114;

Ten-Day Miner
302; The terms "ten-day miner," "ten-day man," "ten-dayer" and "ten-day stiff" are common names for the "hobo miner," who worked in a camp only long enough to get a roadstake before setting out for the next camp. Such miners are also commonly referred to as "boomers," "ramblers," and "floaters," and less commonly as "grubstakers." An older designation, dating from the early mining history of the West ... is "Overlander." From "The Folklore, Customs, and Traditions of the Butte Miner" by Wayland D. Hand, California Folk Quaterly, Vol. 5, No.1 (Jan 1946), pp.1-25.

Teresa
87; girl Webb fancies on his way to Colorado

Terrorism
85; "monsters that Did the Deed" 85; innocent victims, 87; "radius of annihilation" 95;

Tesla, Dr. Nikola (1856-1943)
33; 97 - "Tesla logged in his diary on July 3, 1899 that a separate resonance transformer tuned to the same high frequency as a larger high-voltage resonance transformer would transceive energy from the larger coil, acting as a transmitter of wireless energy, which was used to confirm Tesla's patent for radio during later disputes in the courts. These air core high-frequency resonate coils were the predecessors of systems from radio to radar and medical magnetic resonance imaging devices." from this nice Tesla page - This information was later used to confirm his patent for radio which he received posthumously in 1946, 3 years after his death - from this Tesla page; Kit Traverse working for, 97; Wikipedia entry; Read this article about Tesla's Death Ray and the Tunguska Event...

Thick Bush
8; town where Chick Counterfly was recognized as the son of "Dick" Counterfly

Throyle, Hastings
131; collegial nemesis of T. Blope

Time
33; 54; 111; colonizing, 131; "at right angles to the flow of" 132; 143;

toroidal dispensation
128;

Tovarishchi Slutchainyi
123; Russian counterparts to the Chums of Chance

Töpler Influence Machine

58; An electric machine consisting of the combination of two materials, which when rubbed together produce static electricity, and of a third material or object which acts as a collector for the charges. August Joseph Ignaz Töpler (1836-1912) was a German physicist known for his experiments in electrostatics. In 1864 he applied Foucault's knife-edge test for telescope mirrors to the analysis of fluid flow and the shock wave. He developed the Toepler machine, an electrostatic influence machine, in 1865 for use in X-ray photography. Improved versions were produced by Wilhelm Holtz, Roger and J. Robert Voss.

Trabants
45;

Traverse, Cooley
105; Webb's father

Traverse, Frank
90; Webb's son

Traverse, Jesse
646, 650; son of Reef and Stray (character in Vineland)

Traverse, Kit
90; Webb's son who goes to Yale; vectorist, 97; 156;

Traverse, Lake
90; Webb's daughter

Traverse, Reef
89; Webb's first-born son

Traverse, Webb
76; "sort of mine engineer in Colorado" 76; from South Pennsylvania, 87;

Trilby hat
185;

Trouvé
28; screw unit;

Tsangpo-Brahmaputra
130;

Tubby
161; trained pig

Tungus Reindeer herders
23;

145; an explosion that occurred at 60°55′N 101°57′E, near the Podkamennaya (Under Rock) Tunguska River in what is now Evenk Autonomous Okrug, at 7:17 AM on June 30, 1908. The event is sometimes referred to as the great Siberian explosion. Wikipedia entry; Read this article about Tesla's Death Ray and the Tunguska Event...

Turner, Freddie
52; at Harvard

Twin Vibes, The
102; Foley Walker and Scarsdale Vibe "in matching sport ensembles of a certain canary-and-indigo check"

T.W.I.T.
219; True Worshippers of the Ineffable Tetractys, headquartered in London, north of Hyde Park

Tzigane
18; (French: gypsy) Bindelstiffs of the Blue A.C.'s balloon-ship