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John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 0 Browse Search
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant 6 2 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 4 2 Browse Search
Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America. 4 2 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1864., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 2 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 2 0 Browse Search
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a toothed or corrugated wheel or segment, turning within an outer eccentric casing in such manner as to be rolled by the contact of the two, being squeezed between the gradually narrowing space between the surfaces of the wheel and the case. Ralston's rotary squeezer. In Ralston's Rotary squeezer the ball of metal is inserted at a, and is carried around in the direction shown by the arrow by the ridged roller b, which, rotating in that direction, compresses it between itself and the ridRalston's Rotary squeezer the ball of metal is inserted at a, and is carried around in the direction shown by the arrow by the ridged roller b, which, rotating in that direction, compresses it between itself and the ridged eccentric casing c as the sectional area of the space between the two diminishes; expressing the cinder and delivering the ball at the opening d. Saurian squeezer. The Saurian squeezer is so called from its similarity to the jaws of a saurian, — a crocodile, for instance. The upper jaw b is moved by a crank a on a pivot, in the manner of the movable jaw of a pair of heavy shears. The palace and lower jaw are corrugated. Its office is to compact and shape the ball c of puddled iron,