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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ering.) Cutting a cask in two lengthwise, in order to allow it to pass through a doorway or hatchway, the parts being afterwards united and rehooped. 2. (Carpentry.) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed. Cramp. 1. (Masonry.) A bar of iron with bent ends, used to unite adjacent blocks of stone in situations where they are exposed to wrenching, as in piers, wharves, lighthouses, breakwaters, etc. The stones forming the piers of the bridge of Semiramis across the Euphrates, at Babylon, were secured together by iron cramps fastened by melted lead. So said Diodorus Siculus. Cramps of lead for fastening together the stones of masonry were found by Layard among the ruins of Nineveh. Leaden cramps were similarly used in Egypt. Cramps. The blocks included in one layer of masonry in Smeaton's Eddystone lighthouse were united by iron cramps, with melted lead poured around them. Wooden dowels united the layers. The stones in the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
lted wax was then evenly spread over all, and, when it was quite cold, was polished. The art was revived by Count Caylus in 1753. The wood or canvas is coated with wax, which is warmed at the fire. The colors are mixed with white wax and powdered mastic, which are rubbed smooth with gum-water and applied with a brush. The surface is coated with white wax and polished. En-caustic-brick. Diodorus Siculus relates that the bricks of the walls of Babylon, erected under the orders of Semiramis, had all sorts of living creatures portrayed in various colors upon the bricks before they were burnt. En-caus′tic-tile. An ornamental tile having several colors. A mold is prepared which has a raised device on its face so as to leave an impression in the face of the tile east therein. This intaglio recess is then filled by a trowel with clay compounds, in the liquid or slip state, and which retain or acquire the required colors in baking. The tile is then scraped, smoothed, baked
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
ory of the Chinese, Hindoos, and Egyptians, and chance references to woven goods are found at an early period of the Old Testament history, as in the case of the vestures of fine linen in which Joseph was arrayed by Pharaoh. (See flax; linen.) The references to woven goods in the Mosaic period are very numerous. The art of weaving was held to have been derived from the early sovereigns of the land; so great regard was felt for the inventor, that the work was generally thus associated. Semiramis, the Assyrian queen, is credited with the invention of weaving. The Greeks represented Minerva with a distaff, as being the inventress of spinning. Homer refers to the products of the loom. The Egyptians credited it to Isis; the Mohammedans to a son of Japhet; the Chinese to the consort of the Emperor Yao (Noah); the Peruvians to Mamaoella, wife of Manco Capac, their first sovereign. The modern Arabs and the Hindoos use a procumbent loom. The Bible notices of weaving refer to loom-w
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ed to a wall. It has neither cap nor base, and therein differs from a pilaster. Piel. An iron wedge for boring stones. Pier. （Architecture.) 1. a. A detached pillar or wall supporting the ends of adjoining trusses or spans; or the springers of adjacent arches. See caisson, for mode of sinking piers. The term standing pier is sometimes applied to the isolated structure; abutment pier to a wall from which springs the landward arch of a bridge. The piers of the bridge of Semiramis across the Euphrates at Babylon were made of hewed stones secured by iron cramps and melted lead. — Diodorus Siculus. Fig. 3704 is a sectional view of a pier made in sections. b. The portion of a wall between the windows or doors. c. An upright projecting portion of wall, similar to a pilaster, throwing the intervening sunken portions into panel. See rubble-masonry. d. A buttress. 2. A mole or jetty extending out from the land into the water, adapted to form a landing-pla
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
slider in the tube, enabling small variations in the caliber of the piece to be accurately measured. Star′ling. （Hydraulic Engineering.) An inclosure consisting of piles driven closely together into the bed of a river, and secured by horizontal pieces at the top. The space between the rows of piling, being filled with gravel or stone, forms an effectual protection for the foundation of a pier. A sterling. The starlings of the piers of the bridge erected across the Euphrates by Semiramis (1944 B. C.), to unite the two portions of the city, are distinctly described by Diodorus Siculus (B. C. 40). Start. 1. (Hydraulics.) One of the partitions which determine the form of the bucket in an overshot wheel. Strut. 2. (Mining.) The lever of a crab or gin, to which the horse is attached. Start′er. An apparatus for giving an initial motion to a machine, especially such as may be at rest on a dead-center. Used in sewing-machines, steamengines, etc. Start′ing-