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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
now projected : — To turn Lake Michigan into the Mississippi. This is under way. Across the Isthmus of Corinth. This, as has been remarked, was projected 600 B. C. It attracted the attention, also, of Demetrius Poliorketes, Julius Caesar, Caligula, and Herodes Atticus; but it was reserved for Nero to take the first active ss was first issued about 204 B. C., and weighed 166 grains, but had fallen to 96 grains in the time of Heliogabalus, A. D. 218. The silver coinage of Crotona, 600 B. C., was pure, as was also the gold coinage of Philip of Macedon, 350 B. C. Under Vespasian, A. D. 79, the silver money contained one fourth its weight of copper. U we may agree with one authority that the crank is as old as Talus, the grandson of Daedalus, about 1240 B. C.; or, according to Pliny, Theodorus of Samos, about 600 B. C. It must be recollected, however, that among the oldest Egyptian paintings is the representation of Thoth forming man upon the potter's wheel. Cranks. The
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
they help extend the quarters, and a new terrace is constructed, supported by stems from that above. The community of paper-makers may amount to 30,000 in a single season, according to Reaumur. The Chinese, at the time of Kung-fu-tze (about 600 B. C.), wrote with a style upon the liber of trees, as their records state. Paper was used, perhaps invented, in that country in the reign of Wan-te, 179 — 156 B. C. That made previous to the Christian era is supposed to have been of silk. Engrosinal document on the history of Israel before the time of the Maccabees, and throws light on the relations of Israel with a neighbor much spoken of in the Old Testament. Until the discovery of this stone, the sarcophagus of Eshmunazar (about 600 B. C.) was considered the most ancient inscription of any length. Here we have a long specimen of the earliest Phoenician character, — the alphabet from which the Greek, the Roman, and all our European alphabets are derived. As Count de Vogue says,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
repetitive process from the ore. See iron: malleable iron. He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. — Job XX 24. Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? — Jer. XV. 12. Ezekiel, about 600 B. C., speaks of the bright iron of Javan; and Hesiod, 850 B. C., of bright iron and black iron, the former probably meaning steel: it may have been a different quality, and have taken a finer polish, as steel does. Steel was imported from the cound to have accompanied Melampus and Chiron as surgeons on a warlike expedition, about 1242 B. C., fifty years before the fall of Troy. Machaon and Podalirius, two sons of Esculapius, were army surgeons with the Greeks in the Troad. Damocedes, 600 B. C., was taken prisoner by the Persians, and became court physician in Persia, reducing a dislocation of the ankle for Darius, and removing a cancer for his queen Atosa. Herophilus and Erisistratus, of Alexandria, made that school famous in the th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
rink of some kind, either the produce of animals, as honey (methcglin); mare's milk, fermented by the Tartars, forming the liquor known as koumiss, and possessing intoxicating properties; from the ceralia (beer, whisky, arrack), the juice of fruits (wine, grape, apple, and peach brandy), or the sap of trees and plants, namely, maple sap, plaintain, and agave wine. Little is positively known of the ancient wines except from Pliny, who says that the vine was first cultivated at Rome about 600 B. C., and that the Greeks and Romans had a method of concentrating the wines, either by spontaneous evaporation or boiling, and of reducing them to a sirup or even to a solid cake, in which state they were preserved for many years. Wine two hundred years of age is mentioned by Pliny, its age being considered, as now, a criterion of goodness. Wine-ageing apparatus. In the time of the Roman Emperor Probus, about the close of the third century, great attention was paid to the cultivation o
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