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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
Edwards, a Turkey merchant, in 1657. The first coffee-house in England was in St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London; opened by Pasqua, a Greek servant of Mr. Edwards. It was then sold at from four to five guineas a pound. Coffee-trees were imported from Mocha by the Dutch about 1700, and thence carried to Surinam. In 1714 a coffee-plant was presented by the magistrates of Amsterdam to Louis XIV., and placed in the grounds at Marly. The progeny of this plant were carried to Cayenne and Martinique. In two centuries its use spread all over the civilized world. The coffee-tree does not thrive where the temperature ever sinks below 55° F. It grows to the hight of 12 or 15 feet, has a leaf like the laurel, but not so thick. The blossoms are white, like the jessamine, and issue from the axillae of the leaf-stalks. When they fade they are succeeded by the berry, which, as said before, resembles a cherry, is red when ripe, and has a yellowish, glutinous pulp, enclosing a sac containi
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
erically considered, that it is not probable any great proportion of the inhabitants of any country will make special provision for avoiding the danger. Professor Arago classed several well-known sites according to the frequency of their storms, from the best information he could obtain. His list begins as follows: — Days of Thunder per Year. 1. Calcutta averages60 2. Patna (India) supposed to average53 3. Rio Janeiro averages50.6 4. Maryland (U. S.) supposed to average41 5. Martinique averages39 6. Abyssinia supposed to average38 7. Guadaloupe averages37 8. Viviers (France) averages24.7 9. Quebec averages23.3 10. Buenos Ayres averages22.5 11. Denainvilliers (France) averages20.6 The lowest average he gives is that of Cairo in Egypt, three days of thunder per annum. That of Paris and most of the European cities is about fifteen days. He estimates the days of thunder at New York to be about the same. Lightning rods, points, and Attachements. Fig. 295
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
eys and carrying a series of blades; this conveys the sugar to another incline, where it is acted on by a second fan. It is now entirely crystallized, and is removed by hand into a receiver. When desired to produce molasses, a small proportion may be obtained by making the incline of the troughs steeper and dispensing with the use of the fans. Other plans of treating the cane have been suggested, and in some cases adopted. The following may be mentioned: — De Manoel and Brafen, of Martinique, obtained U. S. patent, February 22, 1848, for a process of drying and pulverizing sugarcane, and then washing the saccharine matters therefrom to be manufactured into sugar by evaporation in the ordinary way. The cane is chopped into small pieces by a cane-cutter, is dried in a kiln and ground in a mill. The meal is then placed in tubs, which are tightly closed, and water passed in succession through them till the sugar is all extracted. The filter and boiling-pan conclude the operation