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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
1866. †54,065J. B. DoolittleApr. 17, 1866. 57,864A. ChristSept. 11, 1866. 59,629A. L. MunsonNov. 13, 1866. 63,450R. W. DrewApr. 2, 1867. 65,510E. K. RootJune 4, 1867. 75,016G. HolmanMar. 3, 1868. 85,350J. AdamsDec. 29, 1868. †93,572R. WhiteAug. 10, 1869. †93,653R. WhiteAug. 10, 1869. †94,003C. A. KingAug 24, 1869. 97,780F. A. Le MatDec. 14, 1869. †99,505R. WhiteFeb. 1, 1870. †99,690J. M. MarlinFeb. 8, 1870. 99,693J. C. MillerFeb. 8, 1870. 100,227R. WhiteFeb. 22, 1870. 102,782Felix and De DartienMay 10, 1870 103,013G. W. H. CalverMay 17, 1870. 104,636W. I. PageJune 21, 1870. †109,417B. F. JoslynNov. 22, 1870. †111,534G. H. HarringtonFeb. 7, 1871. 113,053S. S. HopkinsMar. 28, 1871. 115.483B. F. JoslynMay 30, 1871. 115,916F. WessonJune 13, 1871. 116,078Moss and JohnsonJune 20, 1871. 116,422Forehand and WadsworthJune 27, 1871. †116,559F. G. CochranJuly 4, 1871. †116,593F. W. HoodJuly 4, 1871. †117,461C. B. RichardsJuly 5, 1871. †118,752C. Sha
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
iters are few and indistinct. The first distinct notice of it is by Nearchus, who conducted the fleet of Alexander down the Indus. He speaks of the sugar-cane as growing in India, but does not refer to expression of the juice. Sugar is mentioned by Dioscorides and Pliny, not from any commercial or domestic value that it possessed, but as a curious item of natural history and a presumed use as a medicine. Galen also refers to it as a kind of honey secreted in reeds and brought from Arabia Felix and India. It was known by the Greeks and Romans as an Oriental production, but was sometimes confounded by them with the Tabaschir, made from bamboo stems (Sanscrit; trak-kschira, bark-mill.) Moses of Chorene, who lived in the middle of the fifth century, was the first who described circumstantially the preparation of sugar from the juice of the Saccharum officinarum in the province of Khorasan. It is also mentioned by Paul Eginetta, a physician. A. D. 625. The Arabs seem to ha
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
and to be sent back in chains. In the early part of the same month, Sebastian Cabot, then not much more than twenty-one years of age, chiefly at his own cost, led forth two ships and a large company of English volunteers, to find the north-west passage to Cathay and Japan. A few days after the English navigator had left the port of Bristol, Vasco de Gama, of Portugal, as daring and almost as young, having turned the Cape of Good Hope, cleared the Straits of Mozambique, and sailed beyond Arabia Felix, came in sight of the mountains of Hindostan; and his happy crew, decking out his little fleet with flags, sounding trumpets, praising God, and full of festivity Chap. I.} 1498. and gladness, steered into the harbor of Calicut. Meantime Cabot proceeded towards the north, till icebergs compelled him to change his course. The coast to which he was now borne was unobstructed by frost. He saw there stags larger than those of England, and bears that plunged into the water to take fish wit