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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ch the metal is ladled out. Stirrers are also made with which to stir up the liquid metal. The crucibles are sized by figures denoting the number of kilogrammes of brass they will hold, No. 1 holding 2 1/5 pounds, No. 10 holding 22 pounds, and so on up to No. 300. See graphite. Crucibles. Crucibles for glass-makers are made of a mixture of burned fire-clay very coarsely ground, with the raw clay and a portion of the old pots ground up. Several forms of meltingpots are shown in Fig. 1533. a and b′ are refiners' pots for gold and silver; c′, a foundry-pot; d, a steel pot; e′, crucible lid and stirrer of the same intractable material. 2. A basin at the bottom of a furnace to collect the molten metal. Crucible-mold. Cru′ci-ble-mold. Crucibles are molded on a wheel or in a press. Different materials, qualities, and sizes require different treatment. One common ordinary mode of forming crucibles for melting steel, in the process of making, is shown in Fig. 1534, 1
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
bs, being always improved in proportion as it is beaten. Answering to the iron hooks described by Pliny, and to our hackle, were the combs like that shown in the cut b; two of which were found at Thebes, with some flax-tow attached, and are now in the Berlin Museum. One of them has 29 and the other one 46 teeth. c is a netting-needle from the same place. Flax was exported from Egypt to Gaul as late as the Christian era, and was ordered to be grown in England by statute of Henry VIII., 1533. A braking and scutching machine was run by water-power in Scotland in 1750. To prepare flax for manufacture, after the removal of the seeds, the hare (useful, fibrous portion) is separated from the boon (the refuse portions of the stalk). For this purpose the uniting gluten must be dissolved and removed. This is effected by rotting, either in ponds or by exposure to dew. In either case a fermentation ensues which renders the gluten soluble in water. Caustic alkali has the same effect o
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
, usually more placid, of the great Indian Ocean. Humboldt says: I have shown elsewhere how a knowledge of the period at which Vespucci was named Piloto Mayor would alone be sufficient to refute the accusation first brought against him in 1533 by the astronomer Schoner of Nuremberg, of having astutely inserted the words Terra di Amerigo in charts which he altered. The high esteem and respect which the Spanish court paid to the hydrographical and astronomical knowledge of Amerigo Vespucolumbus, was firmly persuaded until his death that his discoveries were a part of Eastern Asia. For more than 20 years after his death, which took place in 1512, and indeed until the calumnious statements of Schoner in the Opusculum Geographicum, 1533, and of Servet in the Lyons edition of Ptolemy's Geography, in 1535, we find no trace of any accusation against the Florentine navigator. Columbus himself, a year before his death, speaks of Vespucci in terms of unqualified esteem; he calls him a
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
Priv′y. In almost all cities of the world, until a comparatively recent date, all kinds of filth were thrown into the public streets. This was forbidden in Paris by an ordinance in 1395. It was practiced till 1750 in Edinburgh. Three centuries since the royal residences of Spain were destitute of privies, while the circumnavigators found them among the Maories of New Zealand, the antipodes. Laws ordering that every house in Paris should be furnished with a privy were passed in 1513, 1533, 1697, and 1700. A non-compliance was rendered penal. In other cities of France the same regulations were made. Prize-bolt. （Ordnance.) A bolt projecting from a mortar-bed, under which a handspike is inserted in maneuvering. A running — up bolt or traversing-bolt. Proa. （Vessel.) a. A narrow canoe, thirty feet long and three feet wide, used by the natives of the Ladrone Islands. The stem and stern are similar, the boat sailing either way. The lee side is flat, so that the