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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 5 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 4 Browse Search
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
te of chimneys. In the Middle Ages people made fires in their house in a hole or pit in the center of the floor, under an opening formed in the roof; and when the family laid down for the night, — for it can hardly be said they went to bed, — the hole was closed by a cover of wood. The laws of the feudal ages (couvre-fou of the French; curfew-bell of the English), ordered that such fires should be extinguished at a certain time in the evening. William J. introduced this law into England in 1068, and fixed the ignitegium at seven in the evening. The law was abolished by Henry I. in 1100. The curfew-bell also answered as a vesper-bell, calling the people to prayers. Pope John XXIII. ordered three Ave-Marias to be repeated at the hearing of the ignitegium. Pope Calixtus III. ordered the bell to be rung at noon also, to drive away a dreadful comet and the Turks. In due time the comet left, by which the faith of the people in bells was much strengthened, no doubt. The Turks, und
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
radially to regulate the diameter of the circular pieces of paper cut thereby. Ro′ta-ry Dig′ger. （Husbandry.) A machine with rotary spades. See pages 703, 1068. See also rotary plow. Ro′ta-ry En′gine. See rotary steam-engine. Ro′ta-ry fan. （Pneumatics.) A blowingma-chine with rotary vanes. See rotary blors only when in contact with the earth. The yielding cogs insure the meshing of the auger pinions with the rigid cogs of the segmental gears. See also pages 703, 1068. Rotary plow. Ro′ta-ry Pud′dler. （Metallurgy.) An apparatus in which iron is puddled by rotary mechanism instead of by hand labor. The idea is believed one of the latches, remaining in the same position until the cylinder has passed over them, causing the earth to be broken up and overturned. See also pages 703, 1068. Ro′ta-ry Steam–en′gine. One in which the piston rotates in the cylinder or the cylinder upon the piston. The varieties are numerous.