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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
car actually found in Egypt and preserved in the Florentine Museum. It is believed to have been taken as a spoil from Scythia by the Egyptian conqueror. Scythian chariot. War-chariots do not appear in any Egyptian monuments prior to the eighteenth dynasty. The price of an Egyptian chariot in the time of Solomon was 600 shekels of silver, about $300; an immense price, considering the then value of money. The first horses and chariots are represented at Eileithyias at the time of Ames or Amosis, about 1510 B. C. They do not appear to have been used in Egypt during the time of the Osirtasens. Herodotus says that the Greeks learnt from the Libyans to yoke four horses to a chariot (iv. 189). It is, however, mentioned by Homer (Iliad, VIII. 185; Odyssey, XIII. 81). In the Assyrian chariots a spare horse was sometimes attached by a single inside trace to the chariot. The Lydians, it is said, had sometimes several poles to their chariots and horses between each. This
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
Troy, and E. N. Fourdrinier patented apparatus for cutting continuous paper into lengths; and Turner, a strainer designed to supersede the agitating vat of the Fourdrinier machine. Carvil, of Manchester, Conn., patented a screen with fans; and John Ames, of Springfield, Mass., introduced a wire cylinder for the purpose of cleansing rags. 1832. James Sawyer, of Newbury, Vt., invented a piston pulpstrainer; John Ames, a sizing-machine. 1852. G. W. Turner, London, England. Improved mode ofJohn Ames, a sizing-machine. 1852. G. W. Turner, London, England. Improved mode of applying an endless wire-web in a paper-machine; also, mode of passing the paper through a trough of size between two endless felts. 1853. Brown and McIntosh, Aberdeen, Scotland. Hollow perforated mold, covered with felt, to which the pulp is caused to adhere by rarefaction of the contained air. 1853. Machine patented in England for preparing wood for making paper. 1856. Horace W. Peaslee, Malden Bridge, N. Y. Drying cylinder for paper-machines, comprising spiral tubular heater, non-
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ed or cut. It consists essentially of two pieces at right angles to each other, one of which is sometimes pivoted, so that other angles than a right angle may be scribed or measured. A, T-square and bevel. b, machinists' flat, steel square. c, Ames's universal square. d, steel square; try-square; trial-square. The miter-square is a bevel-square, set to an angle of 45°. See also bevel-square, Fig. 670, page 279. Squares. e, f, are squares for laying off complex joints. The first i Square. In g, the sliding bar moves along one arm of the graduated square. The straightedge is clamped to the bar by a set-screw. The relative positions are adjusted by the set-screws in the elongated slots of the bar and straight-edge. Ames' universal square. The square, Fig. 5505, combines five different instruments, viz. the try-square, the miter, the T-square, the graduated rule, and the center-square, for finding the center of a circle. h shows its application as a center-