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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 1,234 1,234 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 423 423 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 302 302 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) 282 282 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 181 181 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 148 148 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 98 98 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
, before and after parturition, and sometimes in cases of umbilical hernia. Abdominal supporter. Moody's Supporter, 1864, has a corset A, with lacings c d and air-bag B secured by elastic plates b to the stays. The pad acts as an elastic truslower part of the same is designed to prevent lateral swaying during quick movements. Sus's knapsack. Sus, May 17, 1864. This invention consists in the employment of a pair of suspending straps which pass over the shoulder in connection withs wedge-shaped sockets to receive corresponding wedge-shaped blocks on the legs of the stretchers. Sirs, 1863, Wilkins, 1864, Slatter, 1865, and others have patented improvements which might be cited would room permit. Hayward's ambulance. tons, etc. British patent, 2048 of 1858.Devlin, 1860. Peters, 1862.Devlin, 1865. Botticher: with soapstone and cotton,1864. Kelly: with graphite and iron-filings,1870. Johns: with caoutchouc,1868. 10. For molded articles:Whitmarsh, 1868. 11
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
the chambers by a sliding bar worked by two levers. By a lever beneath the frame the barrels may be diverged, so as to scatter the balls 120 yards in a distance of 1,000 yards. The weight of the battery-gun used at Charleston, S. C., was 1,382 pounds. Served by three men, it fired 7 volleys, or 175 shots, per minute. Its effective range was 1,300 yards. 4. Forms of many-barreled cannon, revolving on a vertical axis, the pieces being muzzle-loaded. (Milburn, 1866. Divergent, Natcher, 1864.) 5. A cluster of rotating barrels, consecutively loaded and fired by automatic action. (Gatling, 1861-65.) This will have a longer description presently. 6. A cluster of barrels, in whose rear is placed a chambered plate, each of whose chambers corresponds to one of the cluster of barrels, against whose rear it is locked before firing. The mitrailleur (which see). 7. A number of chambered blocks brought consecutively to the positions for loading, and then for firing, through a grou
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
of an inner tube, which may be of mild steel, upon which an outer tube of less extensible material, as hard steel, is shrunk. His first English patent was in 1855. The American patent, in which the process here mentioned is described, bears date 1864. Whitworth commenced experimenting about 1855, and his guns underwent a satisfactory test in 1860. The leading peculiarities are a bore which is hexagonal in cross section without grooves, and having a rapid twist; the projectile is a hexagonan all such large castings a large head or sprue must be allowed to maintain a pressure adequate to produce a sufficient solidification at the breech, where the metal should be strongest. In casting the first 20-inch gun at Fort Pitt Foundry, in 1864, the mold was in four pieces; the core was on the Rodman plan, a fluted cylinder of castiron, circular or semi-elliptical at the lower end, and closed at top by a cap through which a pipe enters, conducting water to the bottom, from which it rises
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
ments, which are embedded by alloys in the metallic stock, to form a cutting-tool (b′ c′, Fig. 1631). See carbon tool-points, p. 461. In his certificate of addition, March 31, 1855, he states that the diamonds are to be inserted in holes drilled for them in the end of the drill-rod, the metal being battered down around them to form a bezel. The drill-bar slides vertically, and is rotated by bevel-gearing. He refers to the need of water on the drill. Diamond tools. Leschot in 1860-64, and Pihet, in 1866, devoted some care to the matter; the latter introducing the annular drill-head (shown at a′, Fig. 1631), which is a steel ring studded with black diamonds. The heads of the drills used at the Mont Cenis Tunnel, and the excavations by General Newton at Hallet's Point, East River, N. Y., were of this character. Fig. 1632 represents a prospecting or open-cut drill detached from the boiler which drives it. The two oscillating engines c drive the bevel-gearing d, which rota<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
consists of glycerine, 14 parts; soft sugar, 2 parts; nitrate of potash, 1 part. It is found that, after saturation for some days in this solution, the parts become comparatively indestructible, and change neither in size nor figure. Dr. Hutton's (1863) composition is 4 pounds of zinc dissolved in 6 pounds muriatic acid, to which are added 1 gallon alcohol, 2 drams arsenic, and 1 dram corrosive sublimate; the fluid is injected into the arteries in a heated state. Dr. Morgan's (English, 1864) is 6 pounds common salt, 1 1/2 pounds nitrate potash, 1 1/2 pounds powdered alum, and 2 drams to 1 ounce arseniate of potash. This, in the form of a solution, is injected into the heart. This process embraces some peculiarities in the mode of treatment of the subject and manner of injecting the fluid. Coffman's (1867). Distilled water, 1 gallon; carbolic acid, 4 ounces; nitrate of potash, 4 ounces; alcohol, 4 ounces. Brunetti, of Italy (1867), expels the blood from the tissues by in
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
considerable size. The following United States patents may be consulted: — 13,0561855.44,2621864. 15,6881856.44,9401864. 26,5411859.47,2961865. 35,4721862.50,5881865. 40,7531863.51,8331866. 1864. 26,5411859.47,2961865. 35,4721862.50,5881865. 40,7531863.51,8331866. 40,7911863.53,4311866. 40,9201863.55,3691866. 42,1631864.61,0061867. 43,1121864. Fuel-dryer. Fuel-dry′er. A kiln for drying blocks of artificial fuel. The trays supporting the blocks of 1864.61,0061867. 43,1121864. Fuel-dryer. Fuel-dry′er. A kiln for drying blocks of artificial fuel. The trays supporting the blocks of fuel run upon rollers upon the angle-iron bars secured in the walls. The walls have perforations to allow the escape of the vapors resulting from the drying of the blocks. Either heated air or steam1864. Fuel-dryer. Fuel-dry′er. A kiln for drying blocks of artificial fuel. The trays supporting the blocks of fuel run upon rollers upon the angle-iron bars secured in the walls. The walls have perforations to allow the escape of the vapors resulting from the drying of the blocks. Either heated air or steam-pipes may be placed between the trays. The ends of the chamber may be closed by metallic doors. Fu′el-feed′er. A device for feeding fuel in graduated quantities to a furnace, either for metallnates: — Guthrie1834.Boldt1866. Kling1857.Rand1867. Ruschaupt et al.1862.Goldmark1867. Lipps1864.Ruschaupt1868. Stockwell1865. Fumi-ga′tor. An apparatus for applying smoke, gas,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
t suspended from the ends of the levers counterpoises the gun, carriage, chassis, and platform. Callender and Northrup, 1864, have a platform supported by a piston in an air-cylinder beneath. Eads (1865, 1869, and 1871) causes the recoil of theut of battery, and traversing and operating guns in turrets, see patent of Ericsson, 1866, 1870; Perley, 1865, 1867; Eads, 1864, 1865; Bartol, 1863. Training twin guns in parallelism in turrets, Eads, 1866. Eads, 1864, 1865, has a means for train1864, 1865, has a means for training the gun upon an imaginary center, which is the center of the exterior opening of the port or embrasure, so as to reduce the opening to the smallest size. Gun-cot′ton. The first notice of the discovery of gun-cotton was made by Braconnet, inplan of using nitric and sulphuric acids. It was described by W. H. Ellet of Columbia, S. C., in 1846. Baron Von Lenk, 1864, used cotton skeins instead of employing the wool in masses, thus rendering the saturation more complete and the manipulat
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
of iron by reducing magnetic iron ores to powder and separating the iron oxides therefrom by magnets, and preparing and uniting the same for use in the furnace. See steel. Also, and much better, see Percy's Metallurgy, iron and steel, London, 1864. 2. An instrument or utensil of iron. A box-iron, flat-iron, smoothing-iron, sad-iron, or Italian-iron is a form of heated instrument for smoothing damped clothes, starched or otherwise. Angle, bar, girder, and rail irons. The iron-heory. Plaster of paris saturated with melted spermaceti. The following United States patents bear upon this subject; the figures are day, month, year: — Welling4, 8, 1857.Seeley23, 6, 1868. Held4, 8, 1857.Welling5, 5, 1868. Hackert31, 5, 1864.Cradenwitz25, 5, 1869. Dupper1865.Hyatt and Blake4, 5, 1869. Wheeler14, 11, 1865.Welling20, 4, 1869. Wurtz1, 1, 1867.Welling27, 4, 1869. Hackert19, 2, 1867.Welling27, 4, 1869. Starr3, 3, 1868.Hyatt6, 4, 1869. Starr and Welling9, 6, 1868.Hyat
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
ndage used for phlebotomy. Galen recommends silk thread for tying bloodvessels in surgical operations. The ligation of the femoral artery was first performed by Hunter, about 1785. That of the external iliac by Abernethy, 1796. The internal iliac by Alexander Stevens, in 1812. The common iliac successfully by Dr. Valentine Mott, in 1827. The common carotid by Sir Astley Cooper (successfully), in 1808. The innominata by Mott in 1818, and successfully by Dr. J. W. Smythe in 1864. Ambrose Pare, born at Laval, in France, in 1509, was a member of the fraternity of barber-surgeons; but, such was the reputation he acquired as an operator, he was made surgeon to four successive sovereigns of France, and, among others, to the weak and cruel Charles IX., by whom, however, although Pare was a Huguenot, his life was saved on the terrible night of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, by detaining him in the royal chamber until morning. With Pare, who lived little more than 300
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
n that the monitors built on the Western rivers were the most powerful vessels of war ever launched. He says: The first monitor was a perfect success, and capable of defeating anything that then floated. The one first completed at Cincinnati, in 1864, he thought, could commence at Cairo and, going down the river, destroy everything we have on these waters, unless they ran away ; and this without disparagement to the powerful fleet of vessels then on the Mississippi, several of which had receiv recognized, weighing no more than 15 1/2 pounds, and attached to a stock. A small mortar of this kind was invented by Captain Goodwin of the United States service, and threw a shell with great effect in an experiment at the Washington Arsenal, 1864. Coehorns are, owing to their lightness and portability, very efficacious in dislodging an enemy from covered positions. During a war waged by the English against some of the Maori tribes of New Zealand, about the year 1843-44, one of the na
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