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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
pose or construction; as, hay, stubble, barley, manure, horse, tilting, drag, etc. Hand-rakes are of wood for hay or grain, and of metal for garden use. The rake is not represented in the sculptures or paintings of ancient Egypt. So says Wilkinson. The seed was covered by the plow, hoe, or by tramping of goats; probably, also, by dragging bushes over it. The Roman hoe (raster, a scraper), when its blade was divided to form teeth, was known as rasterbi-dens or quadirdens, etc., accord time of Pliny, 1,500 years afterward. One was to cut low and bind in sheaves, and the other to pull up by the roots. The figures represent these two scenes. The last-mentioned mode was practiced with the millet, doura, or whatever it was, — Wilkinson says sorghum. This was pulled, bound in sheaves, and carried to a place where the grain was stripped from the stalk by a man who drew it, a bunch at a time, over a comb or hackle. The operation is illustrated in a tomb at Eilethyas. The same
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ight between posts, to which it was lashed. Wilkinson failed to find any saw adapted for use by twt. The steelyard is a Chinese invention. Wilkinson failed to find it at Thebes or Beni Hassan. a certain degree of strain. Scissors. Wilkinson's patent (English) n, instead of a riding pamination in Lepsius, Champollion, Rosellini, Wilkinson, and other authorities, followed by a criticary of Joseph, between 1651 – 1636 B. C. See Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians, First Series, Vol. IIIed in smoothing and pressing cloth, though Mr. Wilkinson thinks that the finish attained evidences museums of Europe. One of them, found by Mr. Wilkinson, had some linen thread adhering to it. 5470, a b c d e) are from the collections of Wilkinson, Burton, and Salt. The three on the left arhave been used by the masons of that day. Wilkinson is of opinion that the action of cutting andiopolis, vary from 70 to 93 feet in length. Wilkinson calculates the largest monolithic obelisk in
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
feet like those of lions or dogs. They were of metal, stone, wood, or ivory; were carved, painted, and gilded; square, round, or oblong. Egyptian table (from Wilkinson). Egyptian table (from salt's collection). The annexed cut shows one with a central post, where the figure of a captive forms the shaft, and a flat base thef. Trumpets with pistons and cylinders give all the intervals of the chromatic scale. Valved trumpets have a movable valve similar to that of a trombone. Wilkinson states that the drum and trumpet frequently occur in the battle-scenes of Thebes. The trumpeters are represented standing still, summoning the troops to form, ois direction: — Draw-bench introduced into England1565 Rolls invented for rolling iron, by Henry Cort1783 Draw-bench and rolls used for making lead-pipe, by Wilkinson1790 Combination of 2, 3, or more pairs of rolls, by Hayledine1798 Principles of action of tube-making. Welding. a, hand-hammer. b, power-hammer.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
eath pulleys on each side to the rudder-head. Monocycle. Ice-velocipede. Patents on Velocipedes from 1819 to 1868 No.Name.Date. —W. K. ClarksonJune 26, 1819. —G. ParkerNovember 21, 1825. 19,092.L. KelnerJanuary 12, 1858. 30,192.S. W. BarrOctober 2, 1860. 35,583.H. BoydJune 17, 1862. 36,160.A. LongettAugust 12, 1862. 41,310.P. W. MackenzieJanuary 19, 1864. 44,256.J. GoodmanSeptember 13, 1864. 46,705.H. A. ReynoldsMarch 7, 1865. 47,220.W. QuinnApril 11, 1865. 53,209.J. G. WilkinsonMarch 13, 1866. 54,207.H. A. ReynoldsApril 24, 1866. Water-velocipede. No.Name.Date. 59,915.P. LallemantNovember 20, 1866. 64,416.F. G. HoeppnerMay 7, 1867. 71,561.C. A. WayNovember 26, 1867. 71,562.C. A. WayNovember 26, 1867. 73,029.M. NewmanJanuary 7, 1868. 74,058.L. DeroyierFebruary 4, 1868. 75,331.W. G. CrossleyMarch 17, 1868. 77,478.O. F. GleasonMay 5, 1868. 79,533.B. P. CrandallJuly 7, 1868. 79,654.Hanlon BrothersJuly 7, 1868. 80,425.H. A. ReynoldsJuly 28, 1868.
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