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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 4 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 4 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 4 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
0 parallel threads in a linear inch. Gear-cutting machine. Gear-cutting machine. Gav′el. 1. Originally, a small parcel of grain in the straw. Now, enough of the grain to be bound into a sheaf; the grain is raked from the harvester platform in gavels. Binding makes it a sheaf. A stook, or collection of sheaves placed on end, leaning together and mutually supporting, is a shock. 2. A mason's setting maul. 3. A presiding officer's mallet. Gav′e-lock. An iron crow-bar. Gay′di-ang. A vessel of Anam resembling a junk. It carries two or three masts with triangular sails. Gaze-a-blu-toir′. （Fabric.) A thin silk gauze, made in France, for bolting cloths. Gaz-o-gene′. A portable fountain or soda-water apparatus. See Fig. 45, p. 18. Ga-zon′. （Fortification.) A piece of sod used as a revetment or lining for parapets and earthen banks. Gear. A general term which may mean : — 1. Arms ( ready all his gere, Chaucer), accouterm
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
which fact soon suggested a practical application. In 1823 a complete account of the labors of M. Chevreul was published. The steps which led to the great manufactures and commercial undertakings, such as the Price Candle Factory, were made by Gay-Lussac and Chevreul in 1825. They first thought of forming the fatty acids by saponifying the fats by alkalies and the alkaline earths, decomposing by acid, and separating the solid and liquid parts by pressure. In the earlier processes the expef the plaited wick, put the industry upon a firm footing. To quote farther from Professor J. Lawrence Smith:— A second advance in this industry was the use of sulphuric acid to decompose the fats; this plan originated also with Chevreul and Gay-Lussac, but was not successfully carried out until combined with the distillation of the fatty acid after the decomposition, — a method first executed by Dubrunfaut, and successfully carried out by Coley, Jones, and Wilson, and subsequently perfec
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
heir monopoly to protect from rain. It was made, in those days, of oiled silk, upon a heavy frame. The substitution of silk and gingham, and a light, elastic frame, have contributed to its popularity. The account in the Female Tattler states to the young gentleman belonging to the custom-house who, for fear of rain, borrowed the umbrella at Will's coffee house, Cornhill, of the mistress, that to be dry from head to foot, on the like occasion, he shall be welcome to the maid's pattens. Gay mentions the umbrella as early as 1712, in his poem of Travia, in which he says :— The tucked — up seamstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oiled umbrella's sides. Mr J. Jamieson, a Scottish surgeon, brought with him from Paris, in 1781, an umbrella, which was the first seen in Glasgow, where he resided, and where it attracted universal attention. About 1774, umbrilloes were mentioned as being used in Boston. They were large, blue, with a ferrule like a smal