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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 55 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 12 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1862., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
our indebtedness to the East; and the extreme East seems to have been the primary fountain of our industrial civilization. The use of an explosive compound, pulvis nitratus, is mentioned in an Arabic writing in the Escurial collection, datiing about 1249. The Moors used it in Spain in 1312, and in 1331 the king of Granada battered Alicant with iron bullets, discharged by fire from machines. In 1342 – 43, the Moorish garrison of Algesiras defended themselves against Alonzo XI., king of Castile, by projectiles fired from cannon by powder. The Venetians used gunpowder in their wars with the Genoese in 1380. Gunpowder is mentioned in the French national accounts, 1338, and is said to have been used at Cressy, 1346, and to have contributed much to the success of the English. The two Europeans whose names have been prominently brought forward as inventors of gunpowder are Roger Bacon and Michael Schwartz. Roger Bacon, in 1216, wrote a work entitled The secrets of art and nat
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
t day in the greater part of Europe, as may be seen by a comparison of the plows in Fig. 3821. h is an ancient plow copied from Niebuhr, and is stated by him to be similar to the implement used to this day in Egypt and Arabia With such tools, it was no wonder that Rome and Constantinople depended upon the alluvial valley of Egypt. i j are two wheeled-plows from Caylus's collection of Greek antiquities, and k is from an ancient Sicilian medal illustrated by Lasteyrie. l is a modern plow of Castile, and m is the plow now used in Sicily. It is hardly as good a one as that shown at k, which is a plow of the Greek occupation over 2,000 years since, before Syracuse fell under the attack of Marcellus, 212 B. C. It still lacks the mold-board. n shows the modern Roman plow, with a broad flat share. The diverging wings form a wedge which divides and turns over the soil to some extent. The plowman stands on the rear portion of the sill-piece and holds on by the post, adding his weight to i
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
fter dissolving it in alcohol; marbled soap, by adding a little sulphide of iron. Silicated soap is made by adding a small quantity of silicate of soda or of alumina to ordinary hard soap. Colored soaps are produced by mixing mineral colors with the fluid mass; marbled soaps, by rubbing up the coloring ingredient with a little oliveoil or soap, which is then stirred in with a paletteknife, so as to impart a wavy appearance. There are many other names, geographical, chemical, etc., as Castile, carbolic, etc. Soap Barring and caking machine. Soap Bar′ring and Cak′ing ma-chine′. The machine (Fig. 5264) has two followers operated by rack and pinion motion and traversing on frames at right angles to each other; a slab of soap is placed on the rollers a and carried by the follower b against a series of vertical wires d, which divide it into bars; by a farther movement of the crank, these are deposited upon the second frame e, where the follower f operates to press them sid<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
nals thus translated, are in a little confusion. The ideas are now distinct, but when both were made by hand and in smaller pieces, the differences were rather of position than character. The rugs covered the triclinia, or were laid upon the floor, as appears in the representations in Pompeii, and later in the altar-cloths of the choirs in cathedrals and abbeys. It is recorded that Sinchius, Bishop of Toledo, in 1255, covered his floor with tapestry, — an example followed by Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I. Bedside carpets occur in 1301 on the Continent of Europe; and in the fifteenth century a carpet is shown around a throne, and a bedside rug with a handsome pattern, the remainder of the floor having a checkered matting of two colors. Tap-hole. An opening at the base of a smeltingfurnace for drawing off the molten metal. It is stopped by a plug of refractory clay (bot), which is removed in the act of tapping. Tap′lings. The whang-leather straps which connec