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Australia (Australia) (search for this): chapter 22
great wave had reached different points on the eastern and southern shores of Australia; but here its effects were less decided. It has been calculated that its totive Place, or where chiefly grown.Qualities, Uses, etc. Black Botany Bay woodAustralia, etcHard. Handles for instruments, turning. Blue gumEucalyptus globulusAustAustraliaHard. House and ship building, bridges, piles. Bog-oakQuercus (?)Eng and IrelandHard and black. Fancy cabinet-work, inkstands, etc. BoxwoodBuxus sempervirenving, gun-stocks, framing-timber, furniture. Mountain ashEucalyptus pilularisAustraliaHard, tough. Poles and shafts for carts, wagons, etc. Mountain-ash (rowan)Py(Engelmann's)Abies engelmanniRocky Mountains. Stringy barkEucalyptus fabrorumAustraliaHard. Building. carpentry, etc. SycamoreAcer pseudo-platanusTemperate climesrk. ToquaHimalayaDark-colored: takes fine polish. Tulip-woodHarpulia pendulaAustralia, etcHard. Veneers, cabinet-work, turnery, etc. Turtle-woodSurinamTurnery.
Herculaneum (Italy) (search for this): chapter 22
r firing solid shot, though hollow projectiles are also used. Small arms rifled on this plan are better suited for hard metal than leaden projectiles; with the former great penetration and accuracy are attainable. Whole. （Mining.) Where the coal has not been worked. Whole-and-half Com′pass. A proportional compass having two pairs of legs, one pair twice the length of the others, so that their respective reaches are as 2 to 1. A kind of reducing or enlarging compass. The Herculaneum cabinet shows a pair of such, and the same may be seen in Ficoroni, Gem. Liter., tab. 6, 4to, 1757. Such are also seen in the Pompeiian collection. Also known as a bisecting-compass. Whole-and-half compass. Whorl′er. A potter's whirling-table, on which he shapes circular articles. Wick. A bundle of fibers to lead oil to the flame, where the oil is evolved as gas to maintain combustion. It acts by capillary attraction, and usually consists of a bundle of soft-spun cot<
Dares (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
cends, raising the bucket a to be again filled, and plunging itself in the cistern e to receive another supply. The toothed wheel s engages a pinion t to insure regularity of motion, by means of a fly-wheel on the pinion-shaft. When the fall of the bucket a is less than the elevation of the bucket b, a wheel and axle m n are employed, with a corresponding decrease in the capacity of b in the proportion of the radii of m n. Bucket-tipping arrangement. Ferugio's water-elevator. At Dares, near Dieppe, the garrison was supplied with water from a deep well by means of buckets raised alternately by a rope passing around a drum on a vertical axis rotated by 6 men, who each exerted a force of 25 pounds upon the ends of the levers, and raised 13 cubic feet of water at a haul. The Anglo-Saxons used the chain and wheel; the pivoted and weighted well-pole; two buckets on a chain with a wheel; buckets with iron hoops. See also Shadoof; sweep; etc. Well of Dares. Well-drill.
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 22
the wine, without imparting to it any deleterious properties. In France and other wine-producing countries, the old plan of treading out the grapes is still employed. This is performed by men who dance to the sound of music, and is preferred on account of there being no liability to crush the seeds and stalks of the bunches, which would impair the delicacy of the flavor. Grape culture, for wine-making purposes, was, in this country, long almost exclusively confined to the banks of the Ohio, but is now practiced in localities, such as the shores of the Great Lakes, where it was formerly thought impracticable. Increased care and skill have developed varieties which may be relied on almost as a sure crop in many parts of the great central belt of the United States. California, however, appears destined to be the great wine-producing region of the future; the absence of frosts, and of excessive moisture at any time, giving it advantages not possessed elsewhere. The gathering of
Switzerland (Switzerland) (search for this): chapter 22
ock; chronometer; fusee; etc. For a long period England has maintained a pre-eminence in the quality of her watches, which are, however, expensive. Those of Switzerland do not rank so high, but are cheaper, and are turned out in great quantity, so as to have nearly monopolized the markets of the world. Both classes of these arbination of it with the arch, has been very extensively made use of in the United States. One of the best examples of the former, the bridge over the Limmat, in Switzerland, was built shortly after the middle of the eighteenth century, by the Grubenmann brothers; the span of its wooden arch was 390 feet, with a rise or versed sine taquaNew Hampshire25027 4SegmentPalmer1794 BambergRegnitzGermany20817 4SegmentWiebeking1809 TrentonDelawarePennsylvania20032 0SegmentBurr1804 WrittenghenRhineSwitzerland19830 10SegmentGrubenmann1777 Pont LouisIserFreysingen15413 6SegmentWiebeking1809 Ellicott's MillsPatapscoMaryland15020 0LatticeUnknown1838 Erie RailwayPortag
Yokohama (Japan) (search for this): chapter 22
ur it had reached Constitucion, 450 miles still farther to the south ward. At San Pedro in Southern California, nearly 5,000 miles from Arica, a few hours after the occurrence of the earthquake the sea rose upward of 60 feet above its ordinary level. At the Sandwich Islands, over 6,000 miles distant, in the night between the 13th and 14th, the sea suddenly rose with such violence as to inundate some of the smaller islands, and its oscillations were observable for three days. At Yokohama, Japan, more than 10,500 miles from Arica, an enormous wave poured in on the 14th of August; the hour is not given. In the South Pacific the wave reached the Marquesas and adjacent groups shortly before midnight; some were entirely submerged. It approached the Samoa or Navigator's Islands about half past 2 in the morning of the 14th, and the sea, after rising to an unprecedented hight, more gradually sank; this alternate rising and falling continued for several days. New Zealand was reach
Northampton (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 22
e concern being six or seven feet long and having its bearings in posts of a frame standing upon the barn floor. It is among the histories of the machine that when it was introduced in Scotland, certain sensitive persons pronounced it an impious device, as it raised a wind when the Lord had made a calm This is another inflection of the old opposition that met Kepler and Galileo. Winnowing in Egypt (1500 B. C.） Fig. 7259 illustrates a machine, still in use, invented by Gooch of Northampton, England, in 1800. It embraces the important features of the more modern machines: the rotating fan, the shaking-riddle, and sieves for sorting the grain and separating extraneous matters. See also fanning-mill. English winnowing-machine. Winze. （Mining.) a. A shaft sunk from one level to another for communication or ventilation. b. A wheel and axle for hoisting. Wip′er. 1. (Valve Motion.) A cam which projects from a horizontal shaft and acts periodically upon a toe who<
Nottingham (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 22
ut 80°, with the axis, the concavity facing the wind. The breadth of the sails is usually about 1/5 or 1/6 of the length, which varies from 30 to 40 feet, and they are preferably widened toward their outer extremities. Their maximum effect is attained when their outer ends revolve with about 2 1/2 times the velocity of the wind. In 1772 Andrew Meikle, of Scotland, invented a plan for automatically adjusting the area of the sails to the force of the wind; and in 1804, By water of Nottingham, England, patented a method of rolling up the sails to adjust them in like manner, by means of a weighted lever, which was caused to operate gears, connected by cords to cylinders, on which the sails were wound. More recent devices of this kind generally aim to effect this adjustment by altering the angle at which the sails are presented to the wind. In some cases the axis on which the sails rotate is caused to fall in the line of direction of the wind by means of a vane of considerable
Enfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
ulum.Chronoscope. Ball-screw.Cimeter. Bar-shot.Claymore. Battering-ram.Coehorn. Battery.Columbiad. Battery-forge.Combination fuse. Battery-gun.Congreve-rocket. Battery-wagon.Cross-bar shot. Battle-axe.Cross-bow. Bayonet.Cuirass. Bayonet-scabbard frog.Cuisse. Bilbo.Culverin. Bill.Curtal-axe. Bird bolt.Cutlass. Birding-piece.Dagger. Blank cartridge.Dahlgren-gun. Blow-pipe for blow-gun.Dart. Blunderbuss.Dirk. Boarding-pike.Double-barreled gun. Bolas.Double headed shot. Bomb.Enfield rifle. Bombard.Eprouvette. Bomb-chest.Falchion. Bomb for killing whales.Field-gun. Bomb-lance.Fire-arm. Bomb-shell.Fire-ball. Boomerang.Fire-lock. Bow.Fish-gig. Bowie-knife.Flint. Brake.Flint-lock. Breech-loader.Flying-artillery. Breech-sight.Foil. Broadsword.Fowling-piece. Buckshot.Friction-primer. Bridge-barrel.Friction-tube. Bullet.Fuse. Bullet-mold.Fuse-lock. Bullet-screw.Fusil. Bullet-shell.Gatling-gun. Burrel-shot.Gauntlet. Caisson.Gingal. Cane-gun.Gis arm. Canis
Oyster Bay, L. I. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
stnut)Quercus prinaEastern U. S.Building, fencing, etc. Oak (red)Quercus tinctoriaEastern U. S.Hard, red. Building, shingles. Oak (White）Quercus albaEastern U. S.Hard, yellow. Building, furniture, implements, wagons. OliveOlea europaeaEurope, Syria, etc.Medium. Furniture, turnery, etc. Osage orange (Bois d'arc)Maclura aurantiacaArk. and southwardHard, yellow, very lasting. Wagons and implements, wedges. OsiersSalix viminalis, etcEuropeSoft. Baskets, plait, wicker-work generally. Oyster Bay pineCallitris australisTasmaniaHard. Agricultural implements, cabinet-work, etc. Paddle-woodAspidosperma excelsumGuianaPaddles, cotton-gin rollers. Palm(See Porcupine-wood)Tropical climesVarious uses in mechanics. Oil. Partridge-woodHeisteria coccinea, etcW. Ind. and S. Am.Hard. Walking-sticks, umbrella-handles, etc. PearPyrus communisTurning, carving, blocks for calico-printers, etc. Pheasant-woodAnother name for partridge-wood. PineSpecies very numerousEurope and AsiaMedium. Lu
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