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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 488 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 174 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 128 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 104 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 88 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 80 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 72 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 68 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 64 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 60 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
ls in the water, add the other ingredients; keep in a bottle, shake occasionally, and in two months time decant into bottles and cork. A drop or two of creosote or essential oil of cloves will prevent molding, or, as Dr. Gale remarked to an astounded Indianian, will prevent the deposition of the ova of infusoria animalculae. He might have added, and the sporadic growth of thallogenic cryptogams. Such would probably be fatal to the fungi; the mere definition settled our brother from Indiana. The addition of sugar to ink prevents sudden drying and makes copying ink. Japan ink: Ribaucourt's recipe: aleppo galls, 8 ounces; logwood, 4 ounces; sulphate of iron, 4 ounces; gum-arabic, 3 ounces; sulphate of copper, 1 ounce; sugar candy, 1 ounce. The galls and logwood to be boiled in twelve pounds of soft water until reduced to six pounds. Strain, and add the other ingredients. The ink dries with a gloss; hence its name. Desormeaux recommends that the sulphate of iron be c
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ending between two boats. Fulton experimented with firing guns under water in New York Harbor in 1814, and was successful in penetrating a bulkhead representing the bottom of a first-class ship. His submarine battery of 100-pounder Colombiads is illustrated at b. The gun traveled on its carriage, the barrel of the piece slipping in a packed port-hole. The port was closed by a shutter, which was raised by a lanyard, and dropped of its own accord when the gun recoiled. Mr. Phillips of Indiana in 1855, and Woodbury of Boston in 1861-1864, worked at the problem. Woodbury's device is shown at Fig. 6032. An American submarine gun was shown at the French Exposition of 1867. Fig. 6033 shows a submarine rifled projectile 5 feet long, 11 inches diameter, and with a bursting charge of 49 pounds. Total weight, 175 pounds. Subma-rine′ lamp. A lamp adapted to burn beneath the surface of the water. The submarine lamp used in exploring the breaches in the Thames Tunnel, 1825-18
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
so for sewing-machine needles. Another variety, known as Hindostan stone, is derived from a quarry in Orange Country, Indiana. In ancient times, says Pliny (d. A. D. 79), the only whetstones known were those of Crate and other places beyond se cigar-boxes. Cedar (rock) (yellow cedar)Juniperus californicaUtah to pacificYellow, lasting. Various. Cedar (Spanish)W. Ind., S Am'caCigar-boxes. Cedar (Western)Juniperus occidentalisUtah to OregonVarious. Cedar (West Indian)Cedrela odorataW. rollers. Palm(See Porcupine-wood)Tropical climesVarious uses in mechanics. Oil. Partridge-woodHeisteria coccinea, etcW. Ind. and S. Am.Hard. Walking-sticks, umbrella-handles, etc. PearPyrus communisTurning, carving, blocks for calico-printers,RhododendronRhododendron (various)HimalayaHard. Close-grained; takes a good polish. RosewoodDalbergia (?)Brazil, C. Am., Ind.Moderately hard. Pianos, furniture, turnery, etc. Rosewood (African）Pterocarpus erinaceus, etcGambiaHard. Pianos, furnit