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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
to discharge the gavel. 1861. Dutton inclosed the gearing in a metallic case, forming a part of the main frame. Plate XLVI. shows three forms of the Whiteley Champion harvester of Springfield, Ohio. The upper figure is the mowing-machine; below it is the reaping-machine, with dropping arrangement, which deposits the gavel behind the cutter-bar; the lower figure is the self-raking reaper. The reaping and automatic binding-machine of S. D. Locke, of Hoosick Falls, N. Y., made by Walter A. Wood of that place, and shown in Plate LI., is believed to have overcome the difficulties of the The champion harvester As a Mower: a Dropper: a Self-Raker. binding problem, after persistent attempts for twelve years past. Some of the machines were sent into the harvest-fields the past summer (1874), and a thousand will probably go out next season. Binding attachment to wood's reaping and automatic binding-machine. The grain, as it is cut, falls upon a continuously moving, s
The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
ng yesterday morning. The river continued to rise rapidly, the ice moving in immense blocks, and carrying away two small bridges above Hoosick Falls.--About 4 o'clock the timbers of these bridges, with large quantities of ice, came down like an avalanche, striking the large bridge which connects Hoosick Falls with the manufacturing establishments. At the time there were several persons on the bridge, attempting to save the structure by pushing off the masses of ice from the abutments. Walter A. Wood and J. Russell Parsons, with their ladies, were just driving off one end of the bridge as the other gave way. About one-quarter of the structure fell, some six or seven persons going down with it. Five of them were soon rescued; but Mr. Horatio Hull, a gentleman some fifty years of age, could not be reached, and he passed rapidly down the river, piteously calling for help as he was borne along by the rapid current. Some two miles down at Hoosick junction, he was observed by Engineer Nor