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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
enders are so formed that the strain shall act on a common center, and also serve as a brace to the shoulders. Shoulder-brace suspenders. Sus-pend′ing-clutch. A grapple to be fixed to a beam in a barn or warehouse, for the purpose of suspending hoisting-tackle. Suspending-clutch. Sus-pen′sion-bridge. A bridge sustained by flexible supports secured at each extremity. Suspension-bridges have been used from a period of great antiquity in China, Thibet, and South America. Turner, in his Voyage to Thibet, gives an account of one at Tchin-chien, near the fort of Chuka, about 140 feet long, and which afforded passage for equestrians. It was supported by five chains, covered with pieces of bamboo. These bridges have also been mentioned by old travelers in China. A bridge over a river in the province of Yunnan, China, is said to have been first built 2,000 years ago. A much larger one, spanning the river Pei, was built during the Ming dynasty. It consists of a numb
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
dies, one on an anvil and the other upon the face of a drop-hammer, like that of a pile-driver, which is let fall from a hight of 7 or 8 feet; the thin film left between the prongs is afterward cut out with a fly-press. The forks are then annealed, their prongs filed, bent to the proper curve, reheated, hardened by plunging in cold water, and afterward tempered at the heat at which grease inflames. Table-grinder. Ta′ble-grind′er. A form of grinding-bench. Ta′ble-knife. Sharon Turner ( History of the Anglo-Saxons ) observes, that in all ancient pictures of eating, etc., knives are seen in the hands of the guests, but no forks. Their use at table was, no doubt, coeval with that of the table itself. Forks are of very modern introduction. Coryatt, in his Crudities, published 1611, says: I obserued a custome in all those Italian cities and townes through which I passed that is not vsed in any other country that I saw in my traules, neither doe I think that any other n<
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Anglo-Saxon race. (search)
The Anglo-Saxon race. The Enquirer attributes the first use of this term to Sharon Turner. The first time we ever saw it was in one of Barke's speeches in the House of Commons, on a bill to settle the Government of Canada. This was delivered about the year 1790. Fox, in commenting upon the bill, had said that the Canadians were entitled to more liberty, in the article of self-government, than it gave them. That they were in fact capable of self-government. He pointed to the neighboring country — the United States--as affording an example of the capacity of man to govern himself. Burke in reply said that the example was not to the point — that the United States were peopled by the "Anglo-Saxon race," whom he esteemed peculiarly capable of self-government, whereas the Canadians were a mongrel race, principally French, who, he said, were every day proving themselves more and more unworthy to be entrusted with that power. He then launched into a tirade against the French rev