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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
s, about 1120 B. C., and carried them to the top of a hill before Hebron. He took them bar and all, not condescending to unlock them, but tearing them from their foundations. The doors of the Temple of Siva, at Somnauth, a town of Guzerat, in Hindostan, were of sandal-wood, elaborately carved in correspondence with the other portions of the temple, which was an oblong hall 96 × 68 feet, crowned by a dome. When Mahmoud, of Ghizni, at the head of his Mohammedan hordes, invaded India (A. D. 1004), on a mixed mission of plunder and conversion, he mingled avarice with enthusiasm and lust, so as to afford a first-rate model for a demon to master Anacreon Moore, some 800 years afterward: — 'T is he of Ghizni, fierce in wrath He comes, and India's diadems Lie scattered in his ruinous path; His bloodhounds he adorns with gems Torr from the violated necks Of many a young and loved sultana; Maidens within their pure zenana, Priests in the very fane he slaughters, And chokes up with the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
of Mentz dispersed the workmen, and gave the art of printing to the world. In 1146 Roger of Sicily plundered Greece, and took home with him to Palermo silk-worms, workmen, and the art of weaving silk. From Sicily it spread to France, Italy, and Spain, and from Italy to England. Other instances might be cited where the irruptions of tribes or nations, or internecine disturbances, have disseminated arts, but the one most to our purpose is the invasion of India by Mahmoud of Ghizni, A. D. 1004, which seems to have been the means of diffusing the knowledge of gunpowder, the mariner's compass, and the art of glazing pottery and earthenware. The Saracens were the means of publishing the knowledge thus dispersed, and we regard it as certain that they introduced the knowledge of gunpowder into Europe. The art of making felted fabrics was reintroduced into Europe by the Tartar hordes who took Thrace and Adrianople in 1361, and under Bajazet overran the provinces of the Eastern Empire
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ul-Tivator; hoe; plow, etc. Fig. 4810 is one form of seeding-machine having hollow shares drawn by dragbars, and dropping into the furrow the seed which is uniformly fed from the hopper above. In Fig. 4811, the seed mechanism is actuated by the roller, which forms the earth into ridges, for protection of the seed. The relative vertical position of the parts is adjustable, to regulate the depth of planting. The rear rollers cover the seed. See also grain-drill, Fig. 2278-81, pages 1002-4. Seed-drill. Seeding-machine. Howard's English grain-drill is driven by steam, sows a land 16 feet wide, and drills and harrows 20 acres per day. Seed′ing-plow. A plow with a box, which drops or scatters seed in the furrow or on the freshturned earth. a is an Assyrian plow from the black stone of Lord Aberdeen. The lithic record is of the time of Esarhaddon. It shows a graindrill, with bowl for the seed, and a tube to lead it into the furrow. Oriental plows. b is th