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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 91 13 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 11 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 2 Browse Search
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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 6 2 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., In the monitor turret. (search)
eon, D. C. Logue; Acting Assistant Paymaster, W. F. Keeler; Chief Engineer, A. C. Stimers (inspector); First Assistant Engineer, Isaac Newton (in charge of steam machinery); Second Assist. Engineer, A. B. Campbell; Third Assist. Engineer, R. W. Hanped for lack of artificial draught, without which, in such a confined place, the fires could not get air for combustion. Newton and Stimers, followed by the engineers force, gallantly rushed into the engine-room and fire-room to remedy the evil, but sixteen brawny men, eight to each gun. John Stocking, boatswain's mate, and Thomas Lochrane, seaman, were gun-captains. Newton and his assistants were in the engine and fire rooms, to manipulate the boilers and engines, and most admirably did they s shut up in another, and communication between them was difficult and uncertain. It was this experience which caused Isaac Newton, immediately after the engagement, to suggest the clever plan of putting the pilot-house on top of the turret, and mak
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 15.63 (search)
the Navy, dated on board the Monitor, March 27th, 1862, says with reference to sea-going qualities: During her passage from New York her roll was very easy and slow and not at all deep. She pitched very little and with no strain whatever. Isaac Newton, first assistant-engineer of the monitor. from a medallion portrait by Launt Thompson. At the time of Mr. Newton's death (September 25, 1884) he had been for several years Chief Engineer of the Croton Aqueduct. The plans which have been aMr. Newton's death (September 25, 1884) he had been for several years Chief Engineer of the Croton Aqueduct. The plans which have been adopted for the new aqueduct were his, both in the general features and the details.-editors. Captain John Rodgers's report to the Secretary of the Navy, dated on board of the monitor Weehawken, January 22d, 1863, refers specially to the easy motion of his vessel: On Tuesday night, when off Chincoteague shoals, we had a very heavy gale from the E. N. E. with a very heavy sea, made confused and dangerous by the proximity of the land. The waves I measured after the sea abated; I found them twe
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hamilton, Alexander 1757- (search)
happen to coincide, they will render the course to be pursued more plain and more certain. To ascertain the first with precision would require better materials than are possessed or than could be obtained without an inconvenient delay. Sir Isaac Newton, in a representation to the treasury of Great Britain, in the year 1717, after stating the particular proportions in the different countries of Europe, concludes thus: By the course of trade and exchange between nation and nation in all Euroe been since made in the regulations of their coins by several nations, which, as well as the course of trade, have an influence upon the market values. Nevertheless, there is reason to believe that the state of the matter as represented by Sir Isaac Newton is not very remote from its actual state. In Holland, the greatest money market of Europe, gold was to silver, in December, 1789, as 1 to 14.88; and in that of London it has been for some time past but little different, approaching, perha
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson, Francis 1789- (search)
Jackson, Francis 1789- Social reformer; born in Newton, Mass., March 7, 1789; president of the Anti-Slavery Society in Boston for many years. He published a History of Newton, and died there Nov. 14, 1861.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morrill, Justin Smith 1810- (search)
substance, as free-traders generally assume, that freetrade, or the let-alone revenue system, which was started in 1846 with the repeal of the Corn Laws, and practically adopted by Great Britain less than thirty years ago, is based on scientific truth, natural law, and moral virtue, applicable to all nations and to all times alike, and that any other system is not only false, but wasteful and unchristian. This overlauded economical discovery appears to have been unknown to Bacon and Locke, Newton and Paley, unregarded by a great majority of enlightened Christian nations, and especially unregarded by the British colonies. And yet it seems almost a personal grief to Mr. Gladstone that the United States should be unwilling to accept the beatitudes of free-trade, although British interests, as he claims, have prospered, and will prosper, in spite of American adherence to protection. Why not, then, let us alone? If the whole world were one vast Utopia of communistic brethren, and swo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Newton, Isaac 1800- (search)
Newton, Isaac 1800- Agriculturist; born in Burlington county, N. J., March 31, 1800; was the projector of the national department of agriculture. When the bureau of agriculture was established in 1862, President Lincoln offered the commissionership to Mr. Newton. He held the office until his death, in Washington, D. C., June 19, 1867. Newton, Isaac 1800- Agriculturist; born in Burlington county, N. J., March 31, 1800; was the projector of the national department of agriculture. When the bureau of agriculture was established in 1862, President Lincoln offered the commissionership to Mr. Newton. He held the office until his death, in Washington, D. C., June 19, 1867.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
a very moderate magnifying power, 100 feet for a power of 200, led Gregory and Newton to the construction of reflecting telescopes (see telescope), and these for manfferent substances though their refracting powers may be equal or nearly so. Newton had supposed that the dispersion was always proportional to the refraction, and course of a series of experiments undertaken in order to verify this theory of Newton, which had been controverted, that Dollond was led to his discovery. He founn of). Type-metal.Lead.Tin.Bismuth.Cadmium.Melting-point. Rose's112201° F. Newton's538212 Newton's (another formula)325199 French1548 Wood's131210 Wood's6711Newton's (another formula)325199 French1548 Wood's131210 Wood's671180 Wood's Patent (March 20, 1860）427 – 81 – 2150 – 160 Wood's Patent for filling tooth (Sept. 4, 1864）1 – 22 – 33 – 41 – 2 Kupffer's table of fusible alloys, — ravity, and asserted that it diminished with the distance. It was reserved for Newton to determine that it decreased as the square of the distance. Al
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
ted by a steam-engine, and acting in a tube which directed its blows; the hole obtained receiving a charge of nitro-glycerine. The work of removing the obstructions in the East River has now devolved upon the United States Engineers, under General Newton. They are proceeding by building coffer-dams and driving headings. It is a regular tunneling business, and when the whole roof is blown off and the pillars broken off, the new river-bottom will be the bottom of the drifts, plus what of thhur showered upon the ships by machines. Stettala, a canon of Milan, made a parabolic reflector with a focus of 45 feet, at which distance it ignited wood. It is understood to be the first of that form, though Digges in the sixteenth century, Newton and Napier in the seventeenth century, experimented with parabolic mirrors. Villette, an optician of Lyons, constructed three mirrors about 1670. One of them, purchased by the King of France, was 30 inches in diameter and 36 inches focus. The
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
n 1500, as an imitation of the mechanical structure of the eye. The theory of optical sensation was laid down by Alhazen the Saracen, A. D. 1100. See binocular glasses. Baptista Porta, in 1589, mentions it in his book on Natural magic. Sir Isaac Newton remodeled it, 1700. Daguerre, in 1839, rendered the images obtained therein permanent, after Wedgewood, Davy, and Niepce had only partially succeeded. See photography. The camera-obscura as described by Baptista Porta is a dark chamberven periods of time. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Spanish, Dutch, French, and English governments had offered rewards for an instrument which should determine longitude within a certain specified degree of accuracy. Sir Isaac Newton suggested the discovery of the longitude by the dial of an accurate time-keeper, and the Parliament of Queen Anne in 1714 passed an act granting £ 10,000 if the method discovered the longitude to a degree of sixty geographical miles, £ 15,00
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
n is fairly referable to those described under the various heads. The floating-derrick of the New York Department of Docks was built under the supervision of Mr. Newton, assistant-engineer of the department. It was constructed expressly for the purpose of trans- porting from the work-yards the blocks of granite and artificial, in 1850; weighed in the rough 800 carats, cut to 186 1/16 carats; recut to 103 3/4 carats. — Brande. Austrian. A rose-cut diamond of 139 1/2 carats. Sir Isaac Newton suggested that the diamond is combustible, but the first to establish the fact were the Florentine Academicians, in 1694; they succeeded in burning it in thead (shown at a′, Fig. 1631), which is a steel ring studded with black diamonds. The heads of the drills used at the Mont Cenis Tunnel, and the excavations by General Newton at Hallet's Point, East River, N. Y., were of this character. Fig. 1632 represents a prospecting or open-cut drill detached from the boiler which drives it
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