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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,388 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. 258 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 104 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 70 0 Browse Search
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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 58 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
structed by Nicolas in 1700. Boat-bridges, in a military point of view, are classed as ponton-bridges, the pontons or bateaux and the road-bed being transported on wagons with the army, and thrown across streams as necessity may occur. The bateaux are moored to ropes secured to trees or other safe objects on the respective sides of the river. See Ponton-bridge. Boat-car. A car adapted for transporting boats up and down inclined planes. The Morris and Essex Canal in the State of New Jersey leads from Jersey City, on the Hudson, to Easton, on the Delaware, and connects these two rivers. The breadth at the water-line is 32, and at the bottom 16 feet, and the depth is 4 feet. It is 101 miles in length, and is said to have cost $3,000,000. It is peculiar as being the only canal in America in which the boats are moved from different levels by means of inclined planes instead of locks. The whole rise and fall on the Morris Canal is 1,557 feet, of which 223 feet are overcome
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
rly times in crossing the Isthmus of Corinth, from the Corinthian to the Cenchrean Sea. The place was called the Diolcos, or drawing-place, and was five miles in length. This crossing-place was again used during the maritime warfare between the Genoese and the Turks. At a number of places in Lombardy and Venetia the locks are insufficient or absent, and boats are cradled and transported over the grade. The same thing takes place on the Morris and Essex Canal, which crosses the State of New Jersey, uniting the Hudson and Delaware Rivers. See inclined plane. In its simple form, the cradle consists of three longitudinal timbers united by ribs or cross-pieces. This is floated beneath the ship, which is lashed thereto by cables. The cradle and its burden are then floated to the inclined ways or slip, up which it is hauled, being supported by rollers which intervene between the timbers of the cradle and those of the slip. 6. (Metallurgy.) A rocking apparatus, used in col
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
thick and Vivian patented the application of high-pressure steam to engines. Trevethick is described in the Catalogue of the South Kensington Museum, London, as the inventor and constructor of the first high-pressure steam-engine, and of the first steam-carriage used in England. Blackett improved on Trevethick, and used smooth wheels on a plate-way. The multitubular boiler is stated to have been used by Rumsey, and subsequently, in 1790, in England. It was used by John Cox Stevens of New Jersey, 1791 – 1807; English patent, May 31, 1805. He used a Watt engine, cylinder 4 1/2 inches diameter, 9 inches stroke. Boiler 2 feet long, 15 inches wide, and 12 inches high, with 81 copper tubes 1 inch in diameter. Boat, 25 feet long, 5 feet beam; tried in May, 1804; velocity, 4 to 8 miles per hour. Not desiring to anticipate what should be said under locomotive and steamboat, suffice it to say that William Hadley's locomotive Puffing Billy was built in 1813, and had a long career of
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
inclined plane has a steam-engine on the summit, which, by means of a drum and chain, hauls up the cradle containing the boat. The lifts are worked by one attendant, who can raise or lower a boat from one level to another. There are two lock-chambers, over which is a lofty frame, having large wheels and chains, by which are suspended the cradles, into which the boats are floated when they are to be raised or lowered. See lift. On the Morris and Essex Canal, which crosses the State of New Jersey, connecting the Hudson and Delaware Rivers, there are, or were, 13 inclined planes, up which the canal-boats are hauled, the grades being thus ascended and descended without locking. The summit level at Stanhope is 900 feet above tide-water, and the changes of grade are sudden and frequent. A track of heavy rails is laid on the inclined plane, which has a grade of about 15°, and on this the cradle containing the boat ascends at the rate of five or six miles an hour. At the summit i
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), N. (search)
r a kerf. Nick′el. Equivalent, 29.6; symbol, Ni.; specific gravity, 8.279, which is increased by hammering to 8.82. Fuzes at about 2,800° F. A brilliant, silver-white, ductile metal discovered by Cronstedt in a mineral derisively termed by the miners nick or copper-nick, on account of its resembling copper ore in appearance, but disappointing them by yielding no copper. Its ores are found in many parts of the world; in America they have been discovered in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Tennessee, Missouri, and Canada. The principal are smaltine or smaltite, from which smalts, zaffre, and cobalt are also extracted; the residue after calcination, called speiss, yields some 50 per cent of nickel. Copper nickel contains about 45 per cent of nickel and a large amount of arsenic. Millerite, a sulphide of nickel, containing 65 per cent of nickel and 35 per cent of sulphur, is found in New York and Pennsylvania, and is largely mined in the latter
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
form a favorite subject of invention. The permutation principle was introduced into tumbler-locks by Dr. Andrews of New Jersey, about 1841. The tumblers are capable of variable adjustment, and the key has a series of small shiftable steel rings old-board. He treated it as consisting of a lifting and an upsetting wedge, with an easy connecting curve. Newbold of New Jersey, in 1797, patented a plow with a mold-board, share, and landside all cast together. Peacock, in his patent of 1807, ca the dead-wood was patented by F. P. Smith. Captain Robert F. Stockton, United States Navy, and Francis B. Ogden, of New Jersey, became interested in Ericsson's invention, and the propeller Francis B. Ogden was launched on the Thames, and made tri. Ogden was the first. She crossed to the United States the next year, received an American register, was re-named the New Jersey, and was the first screw-propeller (excepting the small, twin-screw propeller of Stevens) in American waters. Ericsson
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ith bitumen. Obsidian was used in Mexico. Saws and knives of obsidian have been disinterred in the alluvial ground of New Jersey beneath the recent gravel. They are held to prove the existence of extensive coastwise trade, as no obsidian is found neral Sir Samuel Bentham, toward the close of the last century, and have been employed on the Morris and Essex Canal in New Jersey. See Fig. 2665, page 1176. Sectional boat. Sectional boats for canal or navigation subject to occasional interrurangement of detail can the Singer Sewing-Machine Company make 6,000 machines per week in their works at Elizabethport, New Jersey? Cylinder sewing-machine. The data for showing the rate of increase of the sales of sewing-machines since the yea00 sets of these machines have been made and sent to the Pasha of Egypt, yet there are but few in this country, —one in New Jersey, and some in Louisiana and in the West. They are in use in Cuba and South America. The Magnolia sugar plantation, i
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
on of sulphide of calcium, containing sulphur in excess. He recommended alkali waste and gas waste. From the solution bisulphide of tin is precipitated by means of muriatic acid, and converted to oxide, and finally to metallic tin. d. Alexander Parkes, in the same year, employed mercury, forming a tin amalgam, which was subsequently retorted. The use of mercury is prejudicial to health. e. The same person, in 1858, recommended concentrated oil of vitriol. f. J. M. Patterson, of New Jersey, patented, in 1863, the use of a bath of melted lead, to form an alloy with the tin, which, suitable proportions of tin being added, may be used as solder. g. Mr. Everett, of New York, in 1865, proposed to use tinscraps in smelting galena. h. Sturdevant and Harmon, New York, propose to melt off the tin from the scraps by means of hot air and steam in a cylindrical retort with a perforated, inverted conical bottom. i. Ott's method consists in the solution of the tin and lead of the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
commenced in Western Pennsylvania, by Mr. John A. Roebling, in 1837, and it was first introduced upon the inclined planes of the Portage Railway, over which the boats of the Pennsylvania Canal, divided into sections, were transported across the Alleghanies. The roads of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company and of the Pennsylvania Coal Company soon adopted them, and heavier ropes of 2 to 2 1/2 inches diameter were then introduced upon the inclined planes of the Morris and Essex Canal in New Jersey. See in-Clined plane. The earliest form of wire-rope was the selvagee rope, consisting of a number of wires laid together parallel, and secured by fine wire wound spirally around the whole. This was covered by woolen list, wrapped around in the contrary direction, and protected by a service of tarred rope-yarns, wound in the same direction as the covering wire. This was succeeded by the plan of twisting soft annealed wire-strands, several of which were afterward laid up together,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), Z. (search)
e red oxide; the carbonate, or calamine; the sulphide, or blende, the dark varieties of which are termed black-jack by the English miners; and the silicate, which is usually found associated with the carbonate. The metal itself was unknown to the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians, and in fact in Europe previous to about the middle of the sixteenth century, though it is said to have been used in India and China from an early period. It is produced in England, France, Belgium, Germany, and in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The fact that certain ores yielded a yellow copper (brass) was early known, and the product was highly esteemed; but it was not understood that it was a true alloy, nor was zinc obtained distinctly. This was partly owing to the fact that zinc vaporizes at a certain heat, and the sublimed portions which adhered to the sides of the furnace had no appearance of metal. Mines yielding this gold-colored metal were highly esteemed, and when exhausted the fact was lamented;