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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 2 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 2 Browse Search
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
ablets, linen cloth, palm leaves, bark, etc. The use of parchment was not yet, if we may credit the assertion that it was invented by the king of Pergamus as a substitute for the papyrus, on which an embargo was laid by the reigning Ptolemy, whoever he was. The use of linen paper in Europe appears to have originated in Germany, about the eleventh or twelfth century, the exact date being undeterminable. We read of a German paper-mill at Nuremberg in 1390, one in England in 1343, in France, 1314, Italy, 1367. Linen paper, however, is yet preserved, containing documents of much older date. John Tate had a mill at Stevenage, England, in 1496, but the manufacture was much increased by Spielman in 1588. This person was a German jeweler, and established a paper-mill at Deptford during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Whatman's mill was established at Maidstone in 1770. The name is yet a famous brand. Linen-Prover. Lin′en-prov′er. A small microscope for counting the threa
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
elded on to a body of iron. The steel is usually so disposed in the fagot as to form the head when the rail is rolled. See rail. Steel-mill. 1. A mill with metallic grindingsurfaces, usually of steel, but sometimes of cast-iron, as being cheaper and sufficient for the purpose. Coffee and spice mills are instances. 2. (Mining.) A steel wheel revolving in contact with a flint, to make a light in a mine. A device used before the invention of the safety-lamp. See Fig. 2952, page 1314. Steel-pen. Metallic pens, or at least graving instruments, would appear to be coeval with the introduction of metal. The first implement of the pen kind was probably a sort of flint stylus, with which the primitive race whose remains are found in the bone caverns of France traced the rude outlines of the mammoth and the reindeer upon the bones of animals. Metallic pens or gravers appear very early in history, those of iron being referred to by Job and by Jeremiah. These may have bee