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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
tead of forks. Bronze forks were used by the Egyptian priests in presenting offerings to the gods. Two of them exhumed at Sakkarah are in the Abbott collection. A fork is mentioned in the accounts of Edward I., and is supposed to have been brought from the East by a returning crusader. Voltaire says that they were used by the Lombards in the fourteenth century; and Martius states that they were common in Italy in the fifteenth century. Table-forks are heard of in Italy from 1458 to 1490. An Italian at the court of Matthias Corvinas, king of Hungary, notices the lack of the fork in the table furniture of the king. A century after, they were not known in France or Sweden. Coryat, in his Crudities, 1611, says: I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and towns through which I passed, that is not vsed in any other country that I saw in my traules, neither doe I think that any other nation in Christendome doth vse it, but only Italy. The Italians and also most strang
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
e, suspended on the breast, or placed on the rail of the wagons in which the Celestials traveled. The Chinese compass is fitted to act as a dial, the points being marked to represent the 24 hours or divisions of a natural day. Of course only a part of these are available, and at the periods of the solstices would be very far from the mark except at noon, but the may have had some system of correction for aught we know. See Mahiner's compass. Watches are mentioned in an Italian sonnet of 1490, by Gaspar Visconti: Henry VIII had a watch; the Emperor Charles V. had several of them; Shakespeare refers to one in Twelfth night :— I frown the while; and, perchance, wind up my watch or play with some rich jewel. — Malvolio. Also in the answer of the priest of Olivia:— Since when; my watch hath told me, towards my grave I have traveled but two hours. Fig. 7074 represents a fancy silver watch of the time of Queen Elizabeth. It is shaped like a duck, the feathers chased. The<