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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 15 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 4 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
profound. He was a genuine gentleman, and true to a false master in victory and in defeat. The Siddhanta Ciromani, a Sanscrit text-book on astronomy, gives an account of a wheel having on its outer edge a number of holes of equal size and at equal distances from one another, but upon a zigzag line; these holes are filled half full of mercury, and stopped at the orifice; and it was claimed that the wheel will then, if supported by an axis upon a couple of props, revolve of itself. Bishop Wilkins (b. 1614, d. 1672), in his Mathematical magic, tells of perpetual motion produced by chymical attractions caused by grinding mercury and some other substances together; in distilling and redistilling the mass until small atoms are produced, which, being placed in a glass globe, serve to keep it perpetually moving. The worthy bishop does not, however, repose implicit confidence in the efficacy of this means to produce the desired result. According to Thomas Tymme, a certain Cornelius
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. 30,615CollinsNov. 13, 1860. 33,341FolgerSept. 24, 1861. 36,591WilkinsSept. 30, 1862. 38,076WilkinsMar. 31, 1863. 40,000Tracy et al.SepWilkinsMar. 31, 1863. 40,000Tracy et al.Sept. 15, 1863. 40,589SecorNov. 10, 1863. 41,527MillerFeb. 9, 1864. 41,572Eames et al.Feb. 16, 1864. 48,345McCluskeyJune 20, 1865. 56,224Ho. 117,364BairdJuly 25, 1871. 121,328BurnamNov. 28, 1871. 121,477WilkinsDec. 5, 1871. 123,742TaitFeb. 13, 1872. (Reissue.)4,794BairdM. 126,925BradyMay 21, 1872. 127,155DemarestMay 28, 1872. 128,518WilkinsJuly 2, 1872. 137,048BaryMar. 25, 1873. 141,663PeddenAug. 12, 187er. 96,527WilmotNov. 2, 1869. 112,537BrickMar. 14, 1871. 128,517WilkinsJuly 2, 1872. 136,327LeslieFeb. 25, 1873. 10. Oiling Thread. 10,5. 50,402StoopsOct. 10, 1865. 52,257BartramJan. 30, 1866. 55,567WilkinsJune 12, 1866. 75,755HathawayMar. 24, 1868. 79,571Hewitt et al.Jueigh 4 ounces. A piece brought to England, from Dacca, by Sir Charles Wilkins, in 1786, weighed 34 3/10 grains; its length was 5 yards 7 i