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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
y. In almost all cities of the world, until a comparatively recent date, all kinds of filth were thrown into the public streets. This was forbidden in Paris by an ordinance in 1395. It was practiced till 1750 in Edinburgh. Three centuries since the royal residences of Spain were destitute of privies, while the circumnavigators found them among the Maories of New Zealand, the antipodes. Laws ordering that every house in Paris should be furnished with a privy were passed in 1513, 1533, 1697, and 1700. A non-compliance was rendered penal. In other cities of France the same regulations were made. Prize-bolt. （Ordnance.) A bolt projecting from a mortar-bed, under which a handspike is inserted in maneuvering. A running — up bolt or traversing-bolt. Proa. （Vessel.) a. A narrow canoe, thirty feet long and three feet wide, used by the natives of the Ladrone Islands. The stem and stern are similar, the boat sailing either way. The lee side is flat, so that the canoe <
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
, unlike ice, always procurable. Hooke suggested freezing water as one point. Halley proposed spirit boiling as another point. Newton suggested the boiling point of oil, as the range would be so much increased. He next suggested melting ice and boiling water as two points: the interval to be divided into an arbitrary number of degrees which were to be continued up and down. These standards obtained general acceptance. The use of mercury in the tube was suggested by Halley, about 1697. This fluid is very convenient for the purpose, as having a range of over 700° Fah. between its freezing and boiling points, and expanding very nearly uniformly with equal increments of heat. Fahrenheit, a native of Dantzic, established as an instrumentmaker at Amsterdam, first practically carried out Halley's suggestion. He divided the space between the freezing and boiling points of water into 180°, and commenced the graduation of his scale at the point to which the mercury fell when t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
des, Acteus, and others among the ancients were acquainted with means of rendering the acid in spoilt wine imperceptible, and of stopping the fermentation or corruption by litharge. The introduction of sulphite of soda for this purpose is modern. William, Count of Hennegan, Holland, and Zealand, prohibited the adulteration of wine in 1327, the first prohibition of the kind recorded; and the mixture of litharge with wine was made punishable by death, in the Duchy of Wurtemburg, in the year 1697. Sulphurous-acid gas, produced by burning brimstone in the cask previous to the introduction of the wine, has a tendency to check fermentation and purify the wine, without imparting to it any deleterious properties. In France and other wine-producing countries, the old plan of treading out the grapes is still employed. This is performed by men who dance to the sound of music, and is preferred on account of there being no liability to crush the seeds and stalks of the bunches, which wou