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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
d from the dry plains of Asia and Africa, and the elevated arid regions of Northern Mexico and Lower California, do not apply so well to our more humid climate. Tke too general a statement in a country whose climate varies between Alaska and Mexico. Ad-vice′--boat. A fast-sailing vessel used for reconnoitering. First usfered to refine the silver by mercury, as he had seen in the smelting-houses in Mexico. His proposals were accepted, the old methods abandoned, and that of amalgamatThe patio process has long been in use in South America, and is now employed in Mexico, and now or lately in Nevada. It was invented by Medina in 1557. The materiale pan. The Estufa process. In some of the colder and more humid districts of Mexico, a modification of the patio process has been employed. The ground ore, instea blocks or mullers are dragged over the ore in the pan. They are very common in Mexico, where they operate upon argentiferous ores, and, according to Humboldt, do exc
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
ball. These are made of lead for small-arms, and of east-iron for cannon, though in countries where copper was plentiful and iron scarce, as in South America and Mexico, the former metal was employed, even when imported castiron cannon were used. The lack of tin, and perhaps want of skill, forbade the people of those countries ts of Peru found the art of brickmaking in a flourishing condition in the Empire of the Incas, and both there and among the more northerly countries of Yucatan and Mexico, we learn from the Spaniards, and from Humboldt, and also from our own historians and travelers, Prescott, Stephens, and Squier, that the architectural remains ofposes that tin was first brought to the Mediterranean from Malacca, and gave a new impetus to early Eastern civilization. Britain was the next source. Chili and Mexico are more lately known as productive sources of the same useful metal. The ordinary Assyrian bronze is composed of copper 10, tin 1. Their bell-metal was, copp
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
icken-coop. Chick′en-rais′--ing Appa-ra′tus. An incubator (which see). Child's Car′--riage. A small carriage adapted for children's uses, being drawn or pushed by an attendant. Chil′i — an mill. From time immemorial the ores of Mexico, Central America, and Peru have been worked, and the processes yet used in some of the more remote districts are rude and wasteful or exceeding slow. The Chilian mill and arrastra are specimens of the latter. A in the accompanying cut shows the V. were cotton mantles, some all white, others mixed with white and black, or red, green, yellow, and blue; waistcoats, counterpanes, tapestries, and carpets of cotton; and the colors of the cottons were extremely fine. — Clavigero's Conquest of Mexico. The Mexicans had indigo and cochineal. Columbus found the Cotton-plant wild in Hispaniola, in other West India islands, and on the continent of South America, where the natives used it for dresses and fishing-nets. Magellan, in 1
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
coil of silvered wire is adapted to vibrate over the meshes of the sieve and expel the flour. Flour-sifter. Branching-machine for artificial flowers. Flow′ers, Arti-fi′cial. Ornaments simulating the natural products of the garden; made from wire, gauze, cloth, paper, shavings, wax, shell, feathers, etc. Cutting-punches and scissors are used for shaping; gauffering-presses for stamping into the various graceful shapes and puckers. The feather-flower makers of South America and Mexico had attained great skill in the time of Cortes. Italy led the way in Europe; France followed, and now leads. Fig. 2038 shows a French machine for branching artificial flowers, that is, braiding them or leaves to a stem. The basis of the stems is wire, and two threads of suitable material are laid along this wire to prevent subsequent slipping of the colored thread, which forms the outer covering of the stems. The ends of the short stems of leaves, flowers, buds, and fruits being laid
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
used till within the past few years. It can hardly be exceeded as a lubricator, when finely pulverized, perfectly pure, and free from grit, — conditions which are absolutely necessary for this use. It has been mixed with clay for crucibles since the tenth century, but was not generally adopted till the foliated variety was utilized, in 1827, by an American, — the late Mr. Joseph Dixon of Jersey City. It was early adopted for crayons, and was found in use by the Aztecs when Cortez landed in Mexico. It is indispensable in the graphic arts, in the form of what are commonly called leadpencils, the finest of which were formerly made in England from the granulated, pure graphite, taken from the celebrated Borrowdale Mine in Cumberland; but after that mine became exhausted the world was supplied with pencils made from the impure graphite found in Bavaria and Bohemia, purified for the purpose. Bavaria is well represented by the Messrs. Faber, whose pencils of all qualities are so well kno
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), K. (search)
hown in the paintings of Thebes. These old knives had tangs like our case-knives, and for the same purpose. Among the first mentions of knives is that of Abraham, who took his knife to slay his son on Mt. Moriah. The history of edge-tools would include the history of the knife, and would carry one back to the Lacustrians and other remote inhabitants of the globe. History opens with men using knives of metal, but still retaining the flint knife for sacrificial occasions, as in Egypt, Mexico, and among the Hebrews. Other isolated races contented themselves with shells, as among the Caribs; Obsidian among the Peruvians, Mexicans; flint in ancient Europe and many other places. The first metallic knives were made of copper, and these were afterwards hardened by the addition of tin, making bronze. From the time of Osirtasen and Jacob down to the time of the Caesars and Pliny, bronze maintained its ascendency, but eventually gave way to iron and steel. The Mexicans had no iron
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
ation. Mag′is-tral. 1. (Metallurgy.) Made from copper pyrites (or raw magistral), which is found in many parts of Mexico. These ores, according to Napier, contain from 7.47 to 13.75 per cent of copper. It is reduced to powder by dry stampin now mined extensively at Idria, in the Schiefergebirge, and is found in Hungary, many parts of Germany, in China, Japan, Mexico, Honduras, Columbia, Peru, and California. The modes of obtaining mercury by the decomposition and distillation of cin(coal)2,504 Linden, Prussia (salt well)2,331 Tresavean, England (copper)2,112 Durham, England (coal)1,773 Valenciana, Mexico (silver)1,686 Crown Point, Comstock lode, Nevada (silver)1,400 Santa Rosa, Mexico (silver)1,200 2. Crude ironstone,Mexico (silver)1,200 2. Crude ironstone, known as raw-mine, green-mine, burnt-mine, etc. 3. (Fortification.) An excavation toward or under the rampart of a fortress to contain an explosive charge, to destroy or effect a breach in an enemy's works. Mines executed by the defenders of a
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
taffs and visible from various points on Long Island Sound, Sandy Hook, and the inland waters of the Hudson and Harlem rivers. In the building is a large map, displaying the territory throughout which the service has its stations, reaching from Mexico to Canada, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. The state of the weather is indicated by dials at each of these stations on the map, from which reports are received every five hours. Ob-stet′ri-cal chair. One capable of affording coeceStadium1,083.33 GuineaJacktan4 HamburgMeile8,238 HanoverMeile8,114 HungaryMeile9,139 IndiaWarsa24.89 ItalyMile2,025 JapanInk2.038 LeghornMiglio1,809 LeipsieMeile (post)7,432 LithuaniaMeile9,781 MaltaCanna2.29 MecklenburgMeile8,238 MexicoLegua4,638 MilanMigliio1,093.63 MochaMile2,146 NaplesMiglio2,025 NetherlandsMijle1,093.63 Place.Measure.U. S. Yards. NorwayMile12,182 PersiaParasang6,076 PolandMile (long)8,100 PortugalMitha2,250 PortugalVara3.609 PrussiaMile (post)
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
a fabric prepared from the aloe, Agare americana, called by the natives maguey, which grows freely over the table-land of Mexico. The paper somewhat resembles the Egyptian papyrus, and is polished to resemble parchment. It took color and ink excell to the rosary. See noria; chain-wheel. Patio-process. The patio-process of amalgamation is practiced in Peru and Mexico. A patio, or amalgamation, floor, is a large paved area, walled around to contain the fortas, or flat, circular heaps of-drawing has given rise to one style of plateengraving, known as the stipple or chalk engraving. When Cortez landed in Mexico in 1520, he found the Aztecs using graphite crayons, which were probably made from the mineral found in Sonora. As ha lately been abolished. Signatures to sheets were used by Zorat in Milan in 1470. The first press in America was in Mexico. The Manual for adults was printed on it in 1550 by Juan Cromberger, who was probably the first printer in America. The
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
vent precipitation. Thus the desert of Sahara, Egypt, Arabia, Southern Persia, and the great desert of Gobi in Central Asia, constitute a rainless tract embracing a considerable portion of the earth's circumference. The tablelands of Thibet and Mexico, parts of California, and the great North American desert are also either entirely or comparatively rainless. Local causes frequently determine the amount of rain which may fall in a short time at a given spot. This not unfrequently amounts tan Diego, Cal9.16 Meadow Valley, Cal57.03 Dalles, Oregon21.74 Fort Hoskins, Oregon66.71 Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory38.84 Fort Colville, Wash. Ter.9.83 Neah Bay, Wash. Ter123.35 Sitka, Alaska83.39 Vera Cruz, Mexico183.20 Cordova, Mexico112.08 Bermuda55.34 San Domingo107.6 Havana, Cuba91.2 Rio Janeiro, Brazil59.2 Maranham277.00 Cayenne116.00 Toronto, Canada35.17 St. Johns, Newfoundland58.30 St. John, N. B.51.12 To these may be added the following figures of foreign r
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