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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
ptians and Etruscans on pottery, and passed from them to the Greeks and Romans. Enameling was also practiced among the Chinese. Specimens of enameled work are yet extant of early British, Saxon, and Norman manufacture. An enameled jewel, made by order of Alfred the Great, A. D. 887, was discovered in Somersetshire, England, and is preserved at Oxford. An enameled gold cup was presented by King John to the corporation of Lynn, Norfolk, and is yet preserved. Luca della Robbia, born about 1410, applied tin enamel to pottery, and excelled in the art. Bernard Palissy, the Huguenot potter, born about 1500, devoted many years to the discovery and application of enamels of various colors to pottery. He was remarkably successful in true copies of natural objects. His method died with him. He died in 1589, in prison, for consciencea sake. John Petitot, of Geneva (1607 – 91), is regarded as one of the first to excel in portraits. He worked for Charles I. of England, and subsequent
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
ith his hat slung behind his back. Borghese collection. n, horseman with a petasus. Parthenon. o p, silver coins of Aetolia in the British Museum. q, from a vase of Sir W. Hamilton's. r is from an ancient marble bust. s t are from coins of ancient Italy, and representing heads of Mercury. Ancient hats. In the thirteenth century, Pope Innocent IV. allowed the cardinals the use of scarlet cloth hats. The introduction of felt hats is credited to a Swiss, in Paris, in 1410, and in 1440 it is said to have become a common article of wear for travelers. In 1449, Charles VII. made his triumphal entry into Rouen, wearing a felt hat lined with red velvet and surmounted with a fine plume of feathers. This set the fashion, and hats soon superseded the old chaperons and hoods. Chaucer, who wrote during the latter part of the fourteenth century, represents the merchant as wearing a Flanders beaver hat. This may antedate our Swiss friend mentioned above. The
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
of Augsburg as early as the year 1351, and in that of Nuremberg in 1360; so that according to the best information I have been able to obtain, I must class the invention of the drawing-iron, or proper wire-drawing, among those of the fourteenth century. The art was not introduced into England till the sixteenth century, but had attained great excellence in the reign of Charles I. See draw-plate. This does not fully indorse the ascription of the invention to Rodolph of Nuremberg, A. D. 1410, but he may have much improved the art; mills were erected in Nuremberg, 1563. The first wire-mill in England was erected at Mortlake, in 1663. a (Fig. 7262) shows forms of round, oval, half-round, square, and triangular wires. Wires for mechanical uses and for music-printing. b, pinion-wires for watch-makers. c c′, draw-plate and music wire. d, music, as printed with wire type. e e′, fancy wires made for calico-printing rollers; example of the effect of association of