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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
the helve. The edge is in the plane of the sweep of the tool; it therein differs from the adze. Pliny, who wrote about A. D. 50, felt bound to state an inventor for everything, and ascribed the invention of the axe to Daedalus, of Athens, about 1240 B. C. It is, however, to be supposed that when Cecrops, three hundred years before, forsaking Egypt and leaving civilization behind him, landed in Greece, he had axes wherewith to clear a spot for the village he founded. About the year 1093 B. C. we read that the Hebrews went to Philistia to sharpen every man his axe (1 Samuel XIII. 20); and about 893 B. C. the axe-head fell into the water while the man was chopping (2 Kings VI. 5). Previous to these two latter dates, and two hundred years before the time of Daedalus, we find that the Mosaic law, 1451 B. C., had anticipated the following supposed case: — As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
of the telescope into squares. See wire-micrometer. File. A steel instrument for abrading or smoothing surfaces, and having raised cutting edges (teeth) made by the indentations of a chisel. Files are mentioned in 1 Samuel XIII. 21, 1093 B. C. They had a file for the mattocks and for the colters, and for the forks and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. Files are graded by shape, size, and fineness of cut; and also known by their purpose. As to shape, the diagram (Fig. 19y-forks. Digging-forks. Grain-forks. Hay-forks. Pitch-forks. Of the domestic are: — Culinary or flesh forks. Table-forks. 1. The fork of the husbandman is shown on the Egyptian tombs, and referred to in the Book of Judges, 1093 B. C.: Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the colters, and for the forks. The pitch-fork is used for grain in the straw or sheaf, hay, and manure. It has from two to four teeth, according to its purpose. The four-pronged is used for m
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
substantially similar and used for digging and grubbing, has been in use in Egypt and Palestine for nearly 4,000 years, as we know, and probably much longer. The Egyptian hoe of the time of the Pharaohs was a large wooden implement, and answered for mattock, spade, and hoe. It had a single head, like the surculus simplex of Palladius, in contradistinction to the bicornis, or two-bladed tool, which resembled our pick. See hoe. They had a file for the mattocks. — 1 Samuel, XIII. 21 (1093 B. C.). By reference to Isaiah VII. 25, it appears that the mattock was relied upon for grubbing out briers and thorns as at present, and the pronged hoes of the Greeks had a similar duty in addition to their ordinary use in preparing the ground for seed. Mat′tress. A padded bed, or one stuffed and quilted or tied, so as to keep the stuffing to a general thickness. The filling is hair, moss, sponge, cotton, husk, straw, excelsior (shredded wood), etc. An elastic bed-bottom of coiled or
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
r bases. The form of the ancient share is indicated by the words of Isaiah and Micah, Beat your swords into plowshares. The change would consist in flattening a portion to enable it to throw the soil laterally, and then attaching the hilt to the stock at the most efficient angle. Had the comparison been made in our times, the change of the sword to a colter might have been suggested. While Saul the son of Kish was yet a young king and was the head of a little band in Gilgal, 1093 B. C., the Israelites, who had no smiths, went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share and his colter, and his axe and his mattock. — 1 Samuel XIII. 20. But little metal was used in ancient plows, and the statement is also true of those of later date made of the old forms. It is even within the memory of some of us that wooden moldboards were used. The beasts of draft of old time were oxen and asses, but it was forbidden by the Hebrew law to plow an ox and an ass together.