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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
ame, upon the front side of which is affixed a cutting-edge of steel. From the forward end a tongue projects, and from the rear a guiding-pole with a bent knee, composed of a metallic rod that runs upon the ice. A wide board is adjusted to the front side of the frame for removing snow. Ice-locomotive. Ice-lo-co-mo′tive. A traction engine for running on ice; one constructed by Messrs. Neilson of Glasgow, and employed for conveying passengers and freight between St. Petersburg and Cronstadt, has two driving-wheels five feet in diameter and studded with spikes. The front part rests on a sledge, which is swiveled and may be turned by the wheel, which has an endless screw working a pinion that turns a segment rack attached to the sledbody. The cylinders are 10 inches in diameter and 22 inches stroke. The weight of the engine is 12 tons, and it attains a speed of 18 miles an hour. Ice-mak′ing. Evaporation, radiation, liquefaction, and sudden reduction of pressure, are
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
w London, Conn., was employed to navigate the vessel. Under his command the Savannah, having been duly equipped with engine and machinery steamed out of New York Harbor on the 27th day of March, 1819, bound to Savannah on her trial trip, which was successfully made. On the 26th of May in the same year she left Savannah for Liverpool, making the trip in 22 days, during 18 of which she was propelled by steam-power From Liverpool the Savannah went to Copenhagen, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Cronstadt, and Arundel, and from the latter port returned to Savannah, making the passage in 25 days. The log-book of the Savannah was sent to the Navy Department in 1848. Captain Stevens Rogers died in New London in 1868. The Savannah was built by Crocker and Ficket in New York, and her engines made at Elizabethtown, N. J. In 1824, the Enterprize, under Captain Johnson, made a voyage to India, doubling the Cape of Good Hope. The Curacoa, in 1829, made several voyages between Holland and t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
lland12323 1855*England to Holland11923 1856*Cape Ray, Newfoundland, to Cape North, Cape Breton85300 1856Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick1214 1856*Crete to Alexandria, Egypt3501,350 1856Crete to Syra1701,020 1856St. Petersburg to Cronstadt, Russia1010 1856Across Amazon105 1857*Sardinia to Bona, Africa1501,500 1857*Sardinia to Malta5001,000 1857*Corfu to Malta5001,000 1857*Portland, England, to Alderney6960 1857*Alderney to Guernsey1744 1857*Guernsey to Jersey1560 1857Ceylon tthat the most important feature of this consisted in the application of electro-magnetism as a means of exploding the contained powder. Torpedoes were extensively employed by the Russians during the Crimean war as a defense for the harbor of Cronstadt. These were suspended from buoys to which they were connected by pipes inclosing at their upper part a small glass tube containing sulphuric acid; on the buoy being touched by a passing vessel, the tube would be broken and the sulphuric acid c