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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 55 55 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 4 Browse Search
Pausanias, Description of Greece 4 4 Browse Search
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 2 2 Browse Search
Xenophon, Hellenica (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) 2 2 Browse Search
Strabo, Geography 1 1 Browse Search
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) 1 1 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
made to move, as if alive, by machinery under the floor, and to utter sounds by the action of air driven by water through small pipes, or by means of air rarefied by heat. His works are extant in Greek, and have been frequently translated. They contain many curious anticipations of modern devices, as well as many curious tricks and effects no doubt intended as a part of the machinery of the priests to amuse the speculative and astound the ignorant. Archytis's flying dove was made about 400 B. C. Friar Bacon's speaking head, 1264 A. D. An automatic coach, horses and passengers, was made by Camus for Louis XIV. when a child. Vaucanson made an artificial duck which quacked, ate, and drank; its food undergoing a change simulating digestion. Vaucanson also constructed a flute-player, 1738. The writing automaton was a pantograph; deceptively worked by a confederate, 1769. The automaton chess-player was also a deception, 1769. Maelzel made a trumpeter in 1809. An automaton speakin
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
owline is fastened to the leech of a sail. b. A mooring-hawser. 4. (Husbandry.) The piece on the forward end of a plow-beam, to which the draft-shackle is attached. The clevis. Also called the muzzle or plowhead. See plow. 5. (Fire-arms.) That piece in a gun-lock which serves to bind down the sear and tumbler, and prevent their lateral motion. Bri′dle-bit. Bridle-bits are of great antiquity, as is proved by the Egyptian and Assyrian paintings and sculptures. Xenophon (400 B. C.) describes several kinds, smooth, sharp, and toothed. The curb is a modern invention, and was introduced into England from the Continent in the reign of Charles I. The command exercised by the bit has led to the use of it in metaphor, as in a remarkable passage of James in his Epistle general:— Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths that they may obey us. Etruscan and Grecian sculpture represent the bridle substantially as we yet have it. The Greeks had a severe bridle, arm
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
pair of masks which move over each other so as to expose an opening of any required size and proportions. Plaster-spreader. Fig. 3807 has a shield hinged to a block which has a concave upper surface. The leather is clamped between the shield and bed, and is exposed at the opening in the former. Plaster-spread. Perkins's patent, January 15, 1830, has a pair of rollers, between which the leather is run, flattening down the plaster upon it. Blisters were made by Hippocrates, 400 B. C. Cantharides are commonly found in Spain, and their use is ascribed to Aretaeus of Cappadocia, 50 B. C. Sticking-plaster is made as follows: Two solutions are first made: one, an ounce of isinglass in eight ounces of hot water; and the other, of two drachms of gum-benzoin in two ounces of rectified spirits. These solutions are to be strained and mixed. Several coats of this mixture, kept fluid by a gentle heat, are then to be applied with a camel's-hair brush to a piece of silk stretch
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
a cog-wheel. The character of a tine, or prong, is that of piercing, as in the familiar instance of the tines of a fork; as we say, a two-tined or twopronged fork. Tool-stay. The tooth of a wheel is better called a cog. Specifically: 1. A small, narrow, projecting piece, usually one of a set; as, 2. The tooth of a comb, a saw, a file, a card, a rake. See saw-tooth, etc. 3. A cog of a wheel. 4. A tine or prong of a fork. Tooth, Ar-ti-fi′cial. Hippocrates, about 400 B. C., refers to instruments for the extraction of teeth, and cites a mode of fixing them by gold wire. They were probably natural teeth artificially inserted. Celsus, about the Christian era, refers to filling carious teeth with lead and other materials. Soon after this we read of false teeth of bone and ivory. Actius, in the fourth century, describes the filling of carious teeth. Martial, in one of his epigrams, attributes the whiteness of Lecania's teeth to the fact of her wearing