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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
l, English Patent (another formula)100.80.10.40. Tractable Yellow Metal (old formula)55.3341.84.06 Fontainemoreau's English Patent, 18388.90.1. Cutler's English Patent, 183316.5.3..5 Sorel's White Brass, 184010.80.10. Parke's English Patent, 184491.21.45.545.5 Parke's English Patent (another formula)4.5128.67.2.5 Parke's English Patent (another formula)3.48.50.1. Stirling's Gun-Metal, English Patent, 184650.25.1--8Mang. Stirling's Patent British gold, English Patent, 1846400.93.7.6. Bell-Metal (Overman）71.26.2.1. Aich's Metal, English Patent, Feb. 3, 186060.38.1251.5 Rosthorn's Gun-Metal, Austria, 186155.040.8342.361.77 Rosthorn's Gun-Metal (another analysis)57.630.1540.221.86 Navy Brass, Austria60.38.121.8 Parisian Clock Bells72.26.51.5 Birkholz Metal, United States Patent, Mar. 11, 186260.38.2. An English work of 1853 cites the addition of one to two per cent of iron to brass to give strength and sonorousness; and further states that large guns, large screws, pr
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
formerly used in sieges as a cover while firing on the enemy. 2. (Architecture.) a. A tower, either forming part of a building or detached, in which bells are suspended. b. The apartment in a tower, etc., in which the bells are placed. Bell. 1. a. A hollow, cup-shaped, metallic object suspended by a neck, and sounded by a swinging clapper. b. A hollow, metallic sphere sounded by a loose ball in its interior. Bells are of very great antiquity, small golden bells being mentionford ( Great Tom, 1680）18,0007.16 1/8 Antwerp16,000 Exeter (1675）5 1/2 tons.6.35 Lincoln ( Great Tom, 1834）5 1/2 tons.6.86 London (St. Paul's, 1709）11,4706.7 Fig. 636 represents a bell having a rotatable clapper. The various parts are — Bell. B, clapper or tongue. C, clapper-bolt. D, yoke. F, canon or ear. M, mouth. P, sound-bow. S, shoulder. T, barrel. Cattle and sheep bells are cast, or are made of wrought-metal by being doubled over at the angles or c
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
er machine appears to have met the fate of all its kindred contrivances. About the same time, a Mr. Henson, in England, patented a machine consisting of a car attached to a huge, rectangular, wing-like frame, covered with oiled silk or canvas, and to be propelled by a steamengine in the car working two vertical fan-wheels with oblique vanes; while a frame like the tail of a bird was to act as a rudder, and make the apparatus ascend or descend at pleasure. It did not ascend. In 1850, a Mr. Bell ascended from Kennington, England, in an aerial machine in the form of a prolate spheroid, which, it is said, he propelled by a screw, and steered by means of an apparatus for that purpose, during a flight of nearly thirty miles. If this be so, it must have been probably owing to the serenity of the atmosphere. During the same year, M. Julien at Paris made a model balloon, shaped like a fish, which was made to move in the air by clock-work operating a pair of wings. The model was four
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
l7.40 cents. Cost per mile run for E., F., and W.7.10 cents. —— Total cost per mile run19.20 cents. Total pints of engine-oil used8,027 Total pounds of tallow used3,693 1/2 Total pounds of waste used1,951 Total quarts of oil used1,928 1/2 Total tons of coal used2,461 The principal parts of a locomotive are, — Air-brake.Eccentric-straps. Air-brake cylinder.Equalizing-bar. Air-pipe.Feed-pipe. Air-pump.Fire-bars. Air-valve.Fire-box. Ash-box.Fire-door. Axle-boxes.Fire-grate. Bell.Flag. Bell-cord.Flag-staff. Bell-crank.Flues. Bell-standards.Flue-plates. Blow-off cock.Foot-board. Boiler.Frame. Braces.Gage-cocks. Cab.Galoot-spring. Center-casting.Grate-bars. Check-valve.Guides. Chimney.Hand-rail. Clock.Hangers. Cone.Head-light. Convey-pipe.Head-plate. Coupling-bar.Injector. Coupling-pin.Lamp. Counterbalance.Link-motion. Cross-head.Low-water alarm. Crown-bars.Main-rod. Crown-sheet.Man-hole. Cylinder.Man-hole plate. Cylinder-cocks.Oil-cups. Discharge-<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
Amalgam.Babbitt-metal. Amalgamating zinc-plates.Ball-vein. Amalgamator.Barium. Amalgam-varnish.Bath-metal. Ammonium.Bean-shot. Annealing.Bear. Annealing-oven.Bell. Annealing-pot.Bessemer-process. Anti-friction metal.Biddery. Antimony.Billon. Bing.Damask-steel. Bismuth.Dam-plate. Black-flux.Dead. Black-plate.De-silv. Bar-cutter.Cutter-grinding machine Barrel-setter.Cutter-head. Bar-shear.Cutting-out machine. Beaded wire.Cylinder. Beam.Cylinder-boring machine. Bear.Die. Bell.Die-stock. Bench-drill.Dinged work. Bench-shears.Dog. Lathe Bending-machine.Dolly. Bending metal plates.Drag-bench. Billeting-roll.Drawing-bench. Binder-fra.Drum.Maramba. Basset-horn.Dulcimer.Melodeon. Bassette.Echometer.Metronome. Bass-horn.Eolian.Monochord. Bassoon.Fagotto.Mouth-organ. Bass-viol.Fiddle.Musette Bell.Fife.Musical box. Bird-call.Flageolet.Musical glasses. Bird organ.Flute.Naker. Bombard.Flute-organ.Oboe. Bones.French-horn.Octachord. Bow-instrument.Gender.Oc
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), N. (search)
a peculiar polish. The blue-pointing is a dark polish effected by applying the needles to a revolving stone of a bluish color. The drilled-eyed needles have the eyes finished by a countersink drill, the eye end being previously softened. Bell's needles, English patent, are made of steel, cast in sand molds. The mode is particularly intended for bodkins, fish-hooks, knitting, netting, packing, and sail needles. 2. (Surgical.) The acupuncture-needle is a gold or silver needle, foon. — Ency. Brit., II. 751. Rufus of Ephesus, who was probably contemporary with Trajan, in his works on anatomy, divided the nerves into those of sensation and of motion. — Nouvelle Biographic Generale, Tome XLII. p. 882. Nevertheless, Sir Charles Bell and Mr. Mayo are credited by Whewell (History of the Inductive Sciences, III. 425) with the discovery that the two offices of conducting the motive impressions from the central seat of the will to the muscles, and of propagating sensations f
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
tern of the boat, over the keel. In 1789, Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia, had a stern-wheel steamboat which navigated the Schuylkill. In 1795, Lord Stanhope invented the duck-feet paddles, and ran a boat three miles an hour. In 1796, Fitch had a steamboat on Collect Pond, New York, propelled by a screw astern. In 1802, Symington's double boat, Charlotte Dundas, was propelled by one middle paddle-wheel abaft the engine and working in the space between the twin boats. Fulton's and Bell's steamboats had side paddle-wheels, as also the Savannah, 1819, Enterprise, 1825, Great Western and Sirius, 1838. The Great Britain, 1843, had a screw, and after this the screw became common. See paddle-wheel. The term propeller is usually applied to the longitudinal revolving shaft with vanes or wings, and more specifically known as the screw-propeller. The first use of the propeller was by Stevens, of Hoboken, who used twin-bladed screws in 1804. See screw-propeller. The b
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
ng. Either the forward or backward movement of the trigger-guard e places the lock at half-cock, obviating the danger of premature discharge. The Maynard rifle was perhaps the first in which a metallic cartridge was employed. The report of Major Bell to Colonel Craig, Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, May 16, 1856, describes the firing of Dr. E. Maynard's rifle, charged with a metallic cylindrical water-proof cartridge, and dwells upon the important fact of the coincidence of the axes trands laid or spun around a hempen core; each strand consisting of six wires laid the contrary way around a smaller hempen core. Sash-line; a rope of plaited yarns. Ropes are known also by their purpose; as, — AwningBrail.Clew.Entering. Bell.Breast.Crown.Fall. Boat.Bucket.Crowfoot.Foot. Bolt.Buoy.Davit.Gaub. Brace.Cat.Downhaul.Grab. Grapnel.Keel.Ring.Stirrup. Guest.Man.Rudder.Swab. Guy.Mast.Safety.Tiller. Halyard.Messenger.Sash.Top. Head.Outhaul.Sheet.Tye. Heel.Painter.Si
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
lton did for the paddle-wheel in the former and Bell in the latter country, namely, its practical innother portion of the salt solution. In 1837 Bell, and in 1838 Dyer and Hemming, in England, pateadelphia）1808 BlenkinsopEnglishLocomotive1811 BellScotchSteamboat ( Comet, Clyde）1812 HedleyEngliers）1813 KoenigGermanSteam printing-press1814 BellEnglish Comet steamed from Glasgow to London1815d in order of date). and those of Symington and Bell. The hand words have been principally bestowedorgotten in the history of steam-navigation. Mr. Bell visited the heat in its desolate condition. name of Fulton the first. He died in 1815 Bell's steamboat, the Comet, was built in Greenock, all round the coasts of the British Islands. Bell's boat, comet. In 1814, there were 5 steamethe project was revived by Fulton, Stevens, and Bell, in 1807, it was upon the Hudson, the Delaware,he concavity. See also patents: — 40,899, Bell, December 15, 1863 (angle-iron and bars). 30[3 more.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 9: (search)
pleasant people there; my old friend Thos. Thomson, grown a Benedict, but full of pleasant antiquarian and literary talk; Bell, the Professor of Civil Law; and Sir William Hamilton, The distinguished Professor of Logic and Metaphysics of the Univmore of her hospitality, if our time would have permitted. . . . We had a visit from the Fullertons, and dined at Sir Charles Bell's, the well-known surgeon, and author of one of the Bridgewater Treatises. Lady Bell is quite a delightful person, Lady Bell is quite a delightful person, and must once have been beautiful, for she is still fine-looking; and Sir Charles, though beginning to grow old, is fresh, perfectly preserved, and abounding in pleasant knowledge and accomplishment. Sir William and Lady Hamilton were there; Mrs. ns, who had invited us for any day we could reserve for them. The party was small, but very agreeable,—Sir Charles and Lady Bell, Professor Wilson, Sir W. Hamilton, young Mr. Gregory, brother of Mrs. Alison and son of the famous Professor Gregory.
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