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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
. A counting apparatus for registering the points and games at billiards. There are many varieties. Bil′liards. A game of skill, played on a smooth, level table of peculiar construction, with hard, elastic balls propelled by a tapering stick called the cue. It was invented either in France or Italy, probably during the sixteenth century. The invention is generally ascribed to Henrique Devigne, an artist in the reign of Charles IX., 1571. The game is spoken of by Shakespeare. In 1578, during the reign of William, Prince of Orange, permission was given to some residents of Amsterdam to keep billiard-tables. Up all of us and to billiards. — Pepys, 1665. After dinner to billiards, where I won an angel. — Ibid. Billiard-tables of the best quality have marble tops covered with cloth. The general appearance is well known. The full-size table is 6 feet by 12, having six pockets, one at each corner and two opposite each other at the midlength of the table. The cushions<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
n enemy. Cake-cut′ter. A device for cutting sheets of dough into round or ornamental forms, as heartshaped, etc. Cake-mix′er. A device for incorporating together the ingredients of cake, etc. It consists of an exterior case containing upright stationary fingers, between which a set of downwardly projecting fingers are caused to rotate by means of an attached crank, the dough or batter being stirred between the two. Cal′a-bas. An early light form of musket. Used in and after 1578. Cala-man′co. （Fabric.) A woolen stuff, checkered in the warp, so that the checks are seen on one side only. It was fashionable in the time of Addison and his compeers. The stuff had a fine gloss, and was used for ecclesiastical habits. The original goods of that name was made of camel's-hair, as the name indicates. Cal′a-mine. A native carbonate of zinc. The original means of alloying copper with zinc, obtaining brass. This beautiful alloy was known long before the tr
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
ed mud. It was employed in the fens of Lincolnshire. About 1708, Savery patented a steam dredgingmachine for raising ballast from the Thames. In 1796, Watt made a steam dredger for deepening Sunderland Harbor. The dredging-machine described by the Marquis of Worcester was a water-screw, but the bottom made of iron plate, spade-wise, which at the side of a boat emptieth the mud of a pond or raiseth gravel. The dredging-machine described in the Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum, 1578, was rather an elevator than a dredger. The buckets were attached to endless chains, which passed over two drums, driven by winch-power. Laborers filled the buckets. The chapelet, used by Perronet and other French engineers in the last century for deepening channels and removing the mud from the interior of cofferdams in preparing foundations for bridges, was composed of three rollers, two of which touched the ground, and the other was placed upon an elevated timber scaffold, where the m
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
square miles (average). This does not include the river and lakes. Harrows bore the same part in the operations of husbandry in the time of Pliny (A. D. 79) that they do now. After the seed is put in the ground, harrows with long teeth are drawn over it. The common harrow of the Romans was a hurdle, but they also used harrows made of planks studded with iron spikes. The harrow is represented in the tapestry of Bayeaux, A. D. 1066, and is mentioned by Googe, in his Heresbachius, A. D. 1578. An act of the Irish Parliament was passed in 1634, forbidding harnessing horses by the tayles to harrows. See notice under harness, p. 1062. Harrows are made of various forms, and if we reject the harrow, if such it be, on the shoulder of Osiris (a), we may suppose it to have been originally a bundle of bushes (b) tied together at the butts, and thus dragged over the field. A log on the brush — as we of the West term it — would flatten as well as weight it, and would add to its effic
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
blished in 1559, and by Andrew Caesalpinus, who also noticed the refluent motion of the blood in the veins. Sylvius noticed the venal valves. Fabricius, of Acquapendente, noticed that they all opened towards the heart. William Harvey, born in 1578, studied at Cambridge, and under Fabricius at Paula, and made the discovery of the nature of the arterial and venal circulations, and the complete double circulation, in 1616. Lancets of copper were disinterred in Pompeii in 1819, in the house e cord which connects the end of the spring-pole with the treadle c. The chisel rests upon the bar. The earliest screw-lathe known is one described in the work of Jaques Besson (see Plate 9 of that work) published at Lyons, France, in the year 1578. This curious lathe, which is also illustrated and described on page 616, Vol. II., Holtzapffel's Turning and mechanical manipulation, has its tool traversed alongside the work by means of a guide-screw, which is moved simultaneously with the wo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
otus. Its length was 500 paces. Ships were used as pontons; suspension-cords of flax and biblos united them; transverse beams were laid on the ropes, planks on the beams, soil on the planks, and the armies crossed thereon. Cyrus, according to Xenophon, threw over the Meander a bridge supported on seven boats. Pompey crossed the Euphrates by a boat-bridge during the Mithridatic war. Portable bridges were designed by the Marquis of Worcester, 1655; Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1520; Bourne, 1578; and by others a little later. It was so much the fashion of that day to conceal the particular points of invention under the obscurity of general phrases, that the exact devices can hardly be ascertained. The Marquis states that a six-horse wagon will carry a bridge to span a river half a mile broad. The ponton equipage of the United States army consists of wooden bateaux, 31 feet long, 2 feet 6 inches deep, 5 feet 4 inches wide at top, and 4 feet at bottom, tapering to a width of 4 fee
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
830.) Roll-box. （Spinning.) In the jack-frame, the rotary can or cylinder in which the bobbin and carrier cylinder for the rovings revolve. Roll′er. 1. (Husbandry.) A clod-crusher or ground-leveler. An implement of a cylindrical form to roll over arable ground to break clods, cover seed, and press in plants which are thrown out of the ground by frost. The roller is mentioned as an implement for breaking the clods of arable ground by Googe, in his Heresbachius, published in 1578. Land-roller. The ordinary land-roller has a single cylinder made of a trunk of a tree or of logs of wood upon a skeleton frame, or is a shell of iron with spokes and having sockets for an axle or gudgeons. Fig. 4398 shows a double roller, in which the detachable tongue is confined with bands to the frame to which it is bolted. The rear rollers are adjusted and loosely attached to the elongated rear bar of the forward frame. Land-roller. Fig. 4399 has three rollers on separa
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
eled disk B′, and to the moon m′; the bent stem on which the latter is mounted is connected with an eccentric ring, causing it to move in an elliptic orbit around the earth; it has also a friction-wheel, which, traveling around the inclined edge of the disk B′, produces an alternate ascent and descent of the moon, illustrating its changes of declination; the parts by which the moon is revolved are also so adjusted as to exhibit the retrogression of their nodes. See also Orrery, pages 1577, 1578; planetarium, page 1727. Tel-o-dy-nam′ic Ca′ble. A means for transmitting power, originated by Hirn of Logelbach, in which high speed is employed to give the momentive effect of great mass. The motor is made to give a high velocity to a pulley-wheel, and this wheel is employed to carry a cable which passes over another pulley at the point where the power is to be applied for use. The cable may be lighter in proportion as the velocity with which it travels is greater. Theoreticall