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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
tc. With metals, it becomes chasing; with plastic material, molding. It is a very ancient art, having been employed in Assyria, Babylon, Persepolis, Egypt, and Greece upon chariots, furniture, weapons, and many other objects. It was about 1491 B. C. that Bezaleel, of the tribe of Judah, was specially selected for his skill as a workman in gold, silver, brass, gem cutting and setting, and carving in wood, and was commissioned to execute the work upon the Tabernacle and its furniture. Aholicoffin in the Bible; that mode of burial was never common among the Israelites, but Joseph's body was embalmed and coffined, according to the custom of his adopted country, and was taken out of Egypt by his countrymen when they left for Canaan, 1491 B. C. The coffins of ancient Egypt were frequently stained to represent rare and foreign woods. The sycamore was the principal wood used, and it was handsomely painted, inlaid, and carved, according to their peculiar ideas and taste. It must
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
. （Printing.) A size of type between Great Primer and Pica. Great Primer, 51 ems to a foot. English, 64 ems to a foot. Pica, 71 ems to a foot. En-graving. Engraving is very ancient. The oldest records are cut in stone, some in relief, some in intaglio. The hieroglyphics of Egypt are cut in the granite monoliths, and on the walls of the tombs and chambers. In Exodus XXVIII. we read that two onyx stones were to be engraved like a signet with the names of the tribes, 1491 B. C. The two kinds of stones of the high-priest's breastplate were engraved with the names of the tribes of Israel. Seals and signet-rings with the cartouches of the Pharaohs are in many museums; those of London, Berlin, Paris, and the New York Historical Society, for instance. The graving with an iron pen and lead, referred to by Job (chap. XIX.), consisted probably of an etching or scratching process, that of a sharp stylus upon a piece of sheet-lead; Hesiod's poems were thus preserved.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
oxes, gutters, and numerous other articles; and it is specially useful in type metal, in all solders and fusible alloys (see alloys), as well as in the composition of various articles of use and ornament, domestic and mechanical. The lead of commerce is divided into: — Pig-lead.Lead pipe. Sheet or milled lead.Shot. White-lead.Chromate of lead. Litharge.Red-lead. Lead was known in old times. They sank as lead in the mighty waters, is a part of the triumphal song of Miriam, 1491 B. C. Job refers to its use for writing-tablets, An iron pen and lead. A work of Hesiod was preserved for many centuries scratched on leaden tablets. Iron, tin, and lead were enumerated by Ezekiel as among the commercial objects of the Tyrian trips to Tarshish. The mines of the Cassiterides, that gave the tin to alloy with copper for the vessels of the temple at Jerusalem, gave also lead to the brave merchants of Phoenicia. The Romans used sheet-lead largely for water-pipes. 2. (Soundin
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
and but slightly curved, to facilitate scattering the sand when mixing, or turning it over after casting. Mining-shovels are shown at Fig. 3178, page 1451. Bezaleel of Judah was a master mechanic, and made the shovels for the Tabernacle, 1491 B. C.; and Hiram, the widow's son of Naphtali, whose father was a man of Tyre, made the shovels for Solomon's temple, 1005 B. C. They were of brass, or rather bronze, as the copper was alloyed with tin, not zinc. From their connection in the text et up by Nero, being a figure of himself, was placed before his Golden House, near the site of the temple of Venus, at Rome. It was of bronze, the work of Zenodorus, and Pliny gives its hight as 110 feet, — larger than that of Rhodes. About 1491 B. C., he [Aaron] received them [the golden ear rings of the people] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. — Exodus XXXII. 4. The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it