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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
ns. Its principal peculiarity consists in compactness and portability. See portable steam-engine. Aichs Met′al. An alloy of copper, zinc, and iron, used for guns. Patented in England, February 3, 1860, by Johann Aich, Imperial Arsenal, Venice. It is composed as follows: — Copper,60. Zinc,38.125 Iron,1.5 It resembles the Keir metal, English patent, December 10, 1779, which has, — Copper,100100 Zinc,75 or,80 Iron,1010 Also the sterro-metal of Rosthorn, Austria, 1861, re numerous. Herodotus refers to cloth made of it by the Egyptians. Its uses for paper, napkins, socks, drawers, handkerchiefs, are referred to by Varro, Strabo, and Pliny. Marco Polo mentions it, and Baptista Porta speaks of its being spun in Venice. Asbestus cerements and wrappings for the bodies of the dead previous to incremation were in common use with those whose circumstances permitted it. Shrouds of asbestus of the time of the Roman Emperors have been discovered, and are in the museu<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
or pleasure; as the Bucentaur, the state galley of Venice; Cleopatra's galley; the Lord Mayor of London's barith a composition of caoutchouc, 8; black resin, 4; Venice turpentine, 1. This is digested, spread on the cusands of dozens as dolls' eyes. At Murano, near Venice, where great numbers are made, tubes of glass of va Outside blinds are known as Spanish, Florentine, Venetian, or shutter. Inside blinds are known as VenetiaVenetian, dwarf, spring, common roller, wire-gauze, perforated zinc, etc. 2. (Fortification.) A bomb-proof sheltld them to adjustment. Such shutters are known as Venetian or Louver. Blind-slat Chis′el. A hollow chisers adapted to act upon a narrow slat suitable for Venetian shutters and blinds. The cutter which acts upon tde, over the Altier, by Grennier. The Rialto, of Venice, was erected by Antonio del Ponte, 1588. It has a . Bu-cen′taur. （Vessel.) The state barge of Venice. Buck. （Masonry.) 1. To break ore into fr
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
with some peculiarities, such as the exposure of the weft (Ingrain), the warp (Venetian), or a peculiar weft (Chenille). 6. The carpet is formed of a body of fiber carpet.Two-ply carpet. Tapestry carpet.Velvet-pile carpet. Three-ply carpet.Venetian carpet. Triple-ingrain carpet.Wilton carpet. Turkey carpet. Car′pet-ba letters to plate-glass windows.) Copal varnish, 16; drying-oil, 6; turpentine (Venice), 3; oil of turpentine, 3; liquified glue, 5; melt, and add quicklime, in powde), 8; linseed-oil, boiled to varnish with litharge, 4. c. Dissolved glue, 4; Venice turpentine, 1. d. (Waterproof.) Dissolve isinglass, 2 ounces, in a pint of mind distinct notices of chimneys about the middle of the fourteenth century, at Venice, Florence, and Padua. Francesco de Carraro, lord of Padua, came to Rome in 1re 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 ov
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
arious shades and gradations, as in the Oriental damask. The orbicular veins or any other pattern is produced by peculiar turns and manipulations, and depends upon the skill of the workman. Dam′ask-car′pet. Also known as British, a damask Venetian. A variety of carpet resembling the Kidderminster in the mode of weaving, but exposing the warp instead of the weft. Dam′ask-een. The name is derived from Damascus, where the art is held to have originated. It means to ornament one metd gravel from the bed of a stream or other water, to deepen the channel or to obtain the material for ballast or for filling low grounds. The dredging-machine with a box shovel on the end of an oscillating arm is supposed to have originated in Venice. It had a beam 50 feet in length, moving on a pivot-post erected in a barge whose length was 50 feet and breadth 22. The beam was hooped with iron, and worked by a perpendicular screw of beech 30 feet long and 15 inches in diameter, traversing <
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
was given from any particular bank or office. If the signal is not given within five minutes after the appointed time, the man on duty at the firealarm office communicates with the office of the superintendent of police, and an officer is immediately despatched to the point from whence no signal has been sent. E-lec′tro-medi-cal Appa-ra′tus. An instrument for the treatment of diseases by electro-magnetism. Great success in this line was announced by Johannes Francisco Pavate, at Venice, in 1747. The details of the apparatus employed by him are not known. Electro-Medical apparatus. From that time to the present the treatment of diseases by electrical appliances has undergone its vicissitudes in public favor, becoming notably prominent after the discovery of voltaic electricity and of the properties of electro-magnetism. The latter is now generally adopted. Fig. 1851 shows a machine designed for medical purposes. It is operated by a single-cell Daniells battery,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
glass. （Glass.) One of the kinds of ornamental glass for which Venice was formerly celebrated, and which has been recently revived. Smornamental masses of this glass, blown in the usual manner. The Venetian ball, familiar in paper-weights, is made of waste pieces of filigry was established in 1700. Marine insurance had long been common in Venice. The Amicable Life Insurance Company of London was chartered in 17zed, silvered, etc. 5. Glass mosaic, Milefiori, Aventurine, and Venetian glass weights, etc. 6. Beads, imitation pearls, etc. 7. Glasallurgic operations. The fluxes used by solderers are,— Borax.Venice turpentine. Sal-ammoniac.Tallow. Chloride of zinc.Gallipoli oil. son's. Itinerary, in the reign of Elizabeth, refers to their use in Venice. Heylin in his Cosmograph, 1662, says: The use of silver forks, cess will take 60 to 65 hours, and require 11 pounds of soap. A Venetian cloth will require about twelve hours, take from 6 to 7 pounds of
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
Syria the art was brought by the Crusaders to Europe (1177), and established in Venice, which long had a monopoly therein and attained great excellence. See p. 976. country, 1557. In Savoy, the same year. Plate-glass was made at Lambeth by Venetian artists, 1673. The British Plate-Glass Company was established 1773. An blowing long reigned supreme at Murano, one of the islands of the maritime city Venice. After some preliminary matters, an observer states:— Glass-blowing At tntonio Seguso or Antonio and Giovanni Barovier, of Murano, any specimen of old Venetian glass, and they will copy it with all its perfections, and, if you choose, its year 1562 festoons and other ornaments cut with a diamond were very common on Venetian glasses, which at that period were accounted the best. What is known commerlaneum and Pompeii. The art is supposed to have been brought from Byzantium to Venice and Marseilles, and was practiced by the Saracens throughout the cities of the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), J. (search)
Jag′ger. 1. (Domestic.) A small wheel mounted in a handle and used for crimping or ornamenting edges of pies, cakes, etc., or cutting them into ornamental shapes. A jagging-iron. 2. A toothed chisel. Jag′ging-board. （Metallurgy.) An inclined board in a baddle or frame on which slimes of ore are deposited to be gradually washed by a current of water to the inclined bed where the slimes are sorted according to gravity. See buddle ; framing. Jal-ou-sie′. A louvre or Venetian shutter. Jamb and fittings. Jamb. 1. (Architecture.) The upright sides of an aperture, as a doorway, window, or fireplace, and supporting the lintel, entablature, or mantel. The jamb-linings are the casing, and have a rabbet for the door to shut into. Jamb-posts are framed into an aperture, and upon them the linings are attached. Jamb-stones are employed in building sides of an aperture. A, architrave.D, rabbeted joint. B, plowed ground.E, quarter. C, door.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
bed by the Marquis of Worcester in his Century of inventions, 1655, and stated to have been seen by him in the Arsenal of Venice. The cross-bar at the midlength of the lever has a fulcrum on alternate sides of the frame. The teeth are pivoted, and oud. The first in England was set up at Payne's Hill, by Dr. Watson. In 1766 one was placed on the tower of St. Mark at Venice; it has since escaped injury, though previously it had been frequently struck by lightning. Great opposition was at fithe very best. Ink for transfer from stone to stone: — Wax, 1 part; soap, 1 part; tallow, 1 part; varnish, 4 parts; Venice turpentine, 6 parts; stiff printing-ink, quantity sufficient. These substances are melted, and thoroughly mixed with tus. — Seneca.) Pliny refers to glass mirrors with a backing of leaf-metal, made at Sidon. Looking-glasses were made in Venice, 1298, and in England at Lambeth, 1693. Bought a looking-glass by the Old Exchange, which costs me pound 5 5 s., — a v<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
d impart firmness to the slab. The process of Pichler of Vienna is recommended for plastic decorations of all kinds: Take one pound of good glue and boil it down so that it will be quite thick; add then half a pound of resin, or, better still, Venice turpentine, and mix well. Prepare a mixture of fine chalk and such mineral colors, finely pulverized, as are required for certain imitations. The less the ingredients are mixed, the better will be the imitation. The paste formed by blending thperiod, the improvements in glass-making in other countries, particularly in France, where it was discovered that glass could be cast into much larger plates than had been before prepared by blowing and rolling, destroyed the ancient supremacy of Venice in this art. An unsuccessful attempt was made in France as early as 1634 to establish glass-houses for manufacturing mirrors, and in 1665 Nicholas de Mayer obtained a patent from the French government, and proceeded to erect works for the purpo
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