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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
truck by a blunt projection on the outer pendulum a, when the two pass each other, impressing a mark on a sheet of paper clamped to the are. See chronograph. E-lec′tro-blast′ing. Blasting by means of an electric or electro-magnetic battery, communicating through connecting wires with the charges of powder. It was first tried in blowing up the sunken hull of the Royal George, in 1839, by Colonel Pasley. In 1840 the plan was used in Boston Harbor by Captain Paris. In 1843, by Cubitt, for overthrowing a large section of Round-down Cliff, Kent, England, in making a portion of the Southeastern Railway. The mass dislodged weighed 400,000 tons. See blasting. E-lec′tro-chem′i-cal Tel′e-graph. A telegraph which records signals upon paper imbued with a chemical solution, which is discharged or caused to change color by electric action. Nicholson and Carlisle discovered, in 1800, that water was decomposed by the voltaic pile, hydrogen being evolved at the negative
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
ed hardly be said that the labor comes rather unevenly upon the sick and the well, the weaver and the plowman, the fat and the lean, he that is as subject to heat as butter, a man of continual dissolution and thaw, and he that has a lean and hungry look. See tread-wheel. The tread-mill was a Roman institution, and was used for raising water by the work of condemned criminals. The Chinese also use it to irrigate lands. It was introduced into England as a means of prison discipline by Cubitt, 1817. Tread-wheel. A wheel turned by men or animals, either by climbing or pushing with the feet. The tread-mill, formerly used as a means of punishment. Tread-wheel. In Fig. 6634, it is shown employed for raising water. The rope is wound directly around the axle, and has a bucket at each end; these are alternately raised and lowered by reversing the movement of the wheel. In Fig. 6635, from Agricola, also a water-raising device, the wheel is horizontal, and turned by push