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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 262 262 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 188 188 Browse Search
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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 65 65 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 51 51 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 35 35 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 18 18 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
the validity of the principle involved. Influenced by the results of further experiments made in 1854, the indefatigable inventor took out another patent in 1855 for certain novelties in the apparatu air. Air′—filter. Dr. Stenhouse's air-filters were set up at the Mansion House, London, in 1854. The mode of filtering air is by a wire screen, which arrests floating and flying bodies of anience was almost lost in the peace interval, judging by the ambulance arrangements in the Crimea, 1854. At the battle of the Alma, in which 1,986 British and 1,360 French were killed or wounded, the ch will stop a cannon-ball. The works of this kind constructed during the siege of Sebastopol in 1854 and 1855 are probably without a parallel in modern history, if indeed they were ever equalled in r simultaneously on the same object. Captain Ericsson designed the Monitor class of vessels in 1854, though the idea seems to have lain dormant till the times were propitious. The Monitor attacked
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
he United States army in 1856. Its utility as a weapon is very questionable. It is believed that this form of bayonet was first introduced in the French service among the Chasseurs de Vincennes, who used it in Algiers, in the Crimean campaign of 1854-55, and the Italian war of 1859. Bayonets. It is secured to the rifle by a ring in the guard and a spring-catch in the hilt. The saw-bayonet, having a sword edge and a saw back, is now being tested for the British arms. The spade-bayonete English bakers in 1634. Was made by machinery in England in 1858. Was artificially inflated with carbonic-acid gas, with which the water of mixing was impregnated, by Dr. Dauglish, in 1859. Aerated bread was made in the United States prior to 1854. Bread-knife. Bread-knife. A knife pivoted at one end to a post on a table, and used by a vertical motion to cut loaves into slices. In the example the hinged cutter plays in a slotted arched frame; an adjustable guide is adapted to the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
studying the Babbage machine; it was brought to England in 1854. It is stated to have been bought for £ 1000 for the Dadlethe country between the Ganges and the Jumna, was opened in 1854. When completed, it will be 900 miles long, and will irrigal : — General expenditures for preliminary surveys from 1854 to 1859$15,825,525 General expenses of administration and in.; and greatest diameter, 5 ft. 4 in. The Crimean war (1854) imparted quite an impulse to the improvement of ordnance asly throughout the train are found in the patents of Marks, 1854, acting by rods and chains; Stewart, 1859, having rods and ractice at short ranges. h, i, Smith and Wesson patents, 1854, 1860. In the first of these the fulminate was contained ies or belts corresponding to the lines of type. Babcock, 1854; a sheet carried on a revolvingplaten to plates of successiy for the purpose. Armstrong's hydraulic crane, English, 1854 (h, Fig. 1506), consists of one or more hydraulic presses,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
Duplex-punch. Du′plex-punch. 1. One having a counter-die mounted on an opposite jaw, as the ticket-punch. 2. One having a force derived from the rolling action of two levers on a common fulcrum, forming a toggle. Du′plex-tel′egraph. A telegraph so arranged that messages can be simultaneously transmitted in opposite directions on the same line-wire. The first telegraph of this kind was devised by Dr. Gentl of Austria, in 1853, and modified by Frieschen and Siemens-Holske in 1854; but it is only within the past few years that any duplex systems have been put into successful operation, and, up to this time, only on American lines. The system invented by Joseph B. Stearns, of Boston, based upon Gentl's plan, is represented in Fig. 1806, in which the relay or receiving instrument is composed of two pairs of electro-magnets m m acting in opposite directions upon a common armature lever A. The key is the armature of an electro-magnet, which is in a local circuit contr<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
nd etching-point on the varnished roller. The points are moved by elaborate machinery, and the effect is analogous to that of the eccentric and rose-engine lathes. 2. An apparatus on the principle of the pantograph, but provided with a cutting device and machinery for causing pressure upon the surface to be engraved, so as to produce lines similar to those made by hand with the graver. Collas (English patent) engraving-machine, 1830. Electro-magnetic engraving-machine used in Germany, 1854; in America, 1858. Guerrant and Field's engraving-machine was patented in 1867, and was in operation in New York City during the year 1868. To engrave by means of this machine the operator sits with a copy of the drawing, photograph, or whatever design is to be engraved, directly in front of him. A small pointer rests upon the drawing, and the whole operation consists in moving the pointer over the several lines of the copy. The pointer is operated by two small cranks, one of which produ
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
e rails of the track a trough 1,200 feet long, 18 inches wide, 15 inches deep, and holding 16,000 gallons of water. The tender has a pipe with a nozzle pointing forward, and capable of being raised and lowered. The train running at full speed, the nozzle is let down so as to pass two inches below the surface of water in the trough, and the water is thereby forced through the nozzle into the pipe and thence to the tender. The plan was invented and patented by Angus McDonald of Virginia, 1854, but was first introduced in England. Feed-wa′ter Heat′er. A device for heating the feed-water for high-pressure engines by passing it through a chamber traversed by a coil of pipe carrying the exhaust steam. Feed-wa′ter pump. See feed-pump. Feed-wheel. A continuously or intermittingly revolving wheel or disk which carries forward an object or material, as in the examples, where B represents the feed-wheel as applied to a lampwick. A, a binding feed by a slotted pawl <
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
coals in the grate or furnace, so that the ignited jet may start the fire. English patents of 1854 and 1856 describe bellows connected with a gas-reservoir, and also a portable apparatus containinammonia have been made with it. See ammoniacal engine. R. Waller (English patent, No. 1019 of 1854) uses condensible and permanent gases; as carbonic acid, ether, air. Vaporizes by steam or hot waback grates, the bottom of the chamber being made to slope at a considerable angle. Jeakes, in 1854, formed a movable grate, which was lowered into the fuel-box, gradually consuming the fuel and admitting a supply of air from above to support the combustion. Rowe, in 1854, introduced coal into the bottom of the grate by a pipe leading from a side reservoir of fuel. In 1854, Bachhoffner 1854, Bachhoffner consumed the smoke of one fire by passing it through an upper fire. Leighton, in 1856, surrounded the sides and back of a fire-grate with a fuel-chamber, the fuel being brought forward by a poker,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
ron is known as a goose. A plane-iron is the bit or cutting portion of a joiner's plane. 3. The iron portion of a thing, as a boom-iron, or pump-iron; a clip of a single-tree; the plow-irons, the iron portions of a plow, etc. I′ron, An′gle, etc Figs. 2698 and 2699 show forms of rolled iron for bridges, girders, beams, rails, etc. See Brandt's Eisen-Konstructionen, Berlin, 1865; Heinzerling's Die Brucken in Eisen ; Fairbairn's On the application of cast and wrought iron, London, 1854; Zoreas Recueil de Fers Speciaux, Paris, 1853; and Maurer's Die Formen der Walzkunst und das Faconeisen, Stuttgart, 1865. See also angle-iron. I′ron—block. A tackle-block with an iron shell and strap. The illustration shows several kinds and sizes. Iron-blocks. I′ron—boat. One made of iron-sheets, riveted together. I′ron—bottle. An iron bottle with a screw-plug, for holding quicksilver. It is made by swaging and drawing from a disk of tough wrought-iron. Af
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
s drawn forward horizontally by means of a screw. Alkin's English patent, 1825, resembled Deakin's. Rawe's magazine, 1854, is a fuel-pipe connecting the bottom of the grate with a side reservoir of fuel. The poker is the lever for introducid, but the engine was driven by special machinery, that at the deep silver-lead mines of Przibram in Bohemia having, since 1854, a steam-engine with two cylinders and cataract gear. The man-engine reaches a depth of 2,400 feet, and 3,000 men go up a evidence63.8 Engines at the same works before the use of the Cornish engines26.9 Average duty of Cornish engines (Lean, 1854）53.7 Duty of best engine, from Lean, 185477.0 Duty of Cornish engine (Browne, 1855）69.7 Duty of best engine, from Brownearly in 1862. The original Monitor was based on a system proposed by Captain Ericsson to the Emperor Louis Napoleon in 1854. In 1855 Captain Coles of the Royal Navy proposed a system of revolving turrets to the British government, which was adop
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), N. (search)
recommended by Ruolz. He proceeds at some length to state the effectiveness of the battery in producing a deposit of nickel on copper in half an hour, which would deflect the needle, and preserve the lower metal from the effect of nitric acid more perfectly than a coating of gold deposited in the same time. Parkes, 1845, melted an alloy of nickel with a flux for coating metal plates. Junot, 1852, alloyed silicum, titanium, tungsten, etc., with nickel for electro deposition. Thomas, 1854, used ferro-cyanide of potassium and nitromuriatic acid to obtain a nickel solution for the battery. In 1855 he used the same, with carbonate of ammonia and oxide of alumina. Cheatley, 1855, deposited alloys of nickel by a battery (British patent 1543, of 1855). An alloy of nickel was applied to iron plates by friction and heat by Barron in 1856 Shepard, 1858, deposited an alloy of silver and nickel. The solution is made by adding carbonate of ammonia to a solution of nitrate of si
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