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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 2 0 Browse Search
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e them in, which saves trouble in counting; the clamp or yoke is then put around them, and the bunch removed. See patent 72,581 of 1867. Pliny says that the best shingles are made of oak, but they are more easily cut from pine. He cites Cornelius Nepos to the effect that down to the time of the war with Pyrrhus, Rome was roofed solely with shingles, a period of 470 years. It is to be presumed that they gave way to tiles, which maintained their supremacy in Europe till the introduction of sruvius. This was erected 350 B. C. According to one authority, Crassus was the first Roman who embellished his house with marble, about 90 B C., but it soon afterward became common, and several of the palaces of the Caesars were made of it. Cornelius Nepos states that Mamurra (at a little later date) was the first to use marble in this way. Artemisia of Caria antedates both of them several hundred years. In the time of Henry I the choir of Canterbury Cathedral was paved with marble. In the