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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 23 23 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 16 16 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 15 15 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 12 12 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 6 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 4 4 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 4 4 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 4 4 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 4 4 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ton cloth, bleached or unbleached. The name calico is derived from Calicut, a seaport of Malabar, visited by Vasco de Gama in 1498, and afterwards the principal seat of the Portuguese power in India. Calico was brought from India to England in 1631. Where the art originated, it cannot be said to be useless to inquire; for, though the positive answer may not appear, the inquiry leads in directions which will be either fresh fields and pastures new, or to regions which we tread again with p clumsy, and destitute of springs. They were driven by a postilion, and where four horses were used, the man who rode the near wheel-horses drove the leaders with reins. The driver's seat was added at a later period. Glass windows were added in 1631 in the carriage of Mary of Spain, the queen of the Emperor Ferdinand III. If the carriage of Henry IV. of France had been furnished with windows in 1610, Ravaillac would have been obliged to choose another mode of assassinating him. The carriage
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
al letters, which were put in by hand. The art was carried to France in 1469; to Italy, in 1465; to Spain, in 1477; to England by Caxton, in 1474. Italy soon took the lead, and long kept it, Venice being the headquarters. In the editions published in the sixteenth century, one half were Italian, and one half of these were Venetian; one seventeenth were English. In Venice, during the Turkish war of 1563, newspapers first made their appearance. The Gazette de France was commenced in 1631. Newspapers were fairly established in England after the decapitation of Charles I. The forms of the old printers were generally either large or small folios, or at least quartos; the lesser sizes were not in use. The leaves were without running-title, direction-word, number of pages, or divisions into paragraphs. The character itself was a rude old Gothic mixed with Secretary, designed on purpose to imitate the handwriting of those times. The words were printed so close to one another
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
well and removing the borer. l is an annular reamer whose face is armed with black diamonds or sapphires. See diamond-drill. m is a tool for making an enlarged chamber at the bottom of a shaft. It has a pair of chisel bars coupled by pivots and spreading laterally by the weight imposed. Rock-drill′ing ma-chine′. The two most important improvements in modern rock-drilling apparatus consist in the use of compressed air as a motor and the employment of diamond points. (See Fig. 1631.) The former is now universally used in operations on a large scale, as at the Mont Cenis and Hoosac tunnels, and is extensively employed in coal-mining, serving to ventilate the shaft besides performing the functions of a motor. The drilling-machines to which it is applied are various, very great improvements having been made within the past 20 or 25 years, previous to which time the old systems of turning the drill, and boring or pounding by hand, held undisputed sway. In 1849, Clark an
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
r unfastens the couplings of the hose. The curve follows the shape of the coupling, and the eye is caught over the stud on the collar, so as to wrench it fast or loose it, as the case may be. Another form of spanner has merely jaws which fit upon nuts or faceted collars. See monkey-wrench, Fig. 3214, page 1473. See also wrench. 2. (Steam-engine.) A bar used in the parallel motion of the side-lever marineengine. b c, radius-rod; d g, spanner. See Par-Allel motion, Fig. 3549, page 1631. Span-piece. （Carpentry.) The collar-beam of a roof. Span-roof. （Building.) One having two inclined sides. Span-saw. A frame-saw. Span-shack′le. （Shipbuilding.) a. A large bolt driven through the forecastle and spar-deck beams and forelocked before each beam with a large square or triangular shackle at the head for receiving the end of the davit. b. A bolt driven through a deck-beam, and having a shackle for securing a boat, boom, or anchor. Spar. 1.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
mercury, — but generally prepared artificially. It is made in large quantities in Europe and elsewhere, the processes varying somewhat in different places. The Chinese is the most esteemed and most expensive. Vernier. Ver′ni-er. A divided sliding scale used for measuring any portions of the space between two of the smallest divisions of a graduated instrument. It derives its name from Peter Vernier, a gentleman of Franche-Compte, who described it in a tract printed at Brussels in 1631. Also called nonius, from Peter Nunnez or Nonius, a Portuguese mathematician, born 1497, to whom its invention has been ascribed. The vernier is attached to astronomical and surveying instruments, to the barometer, and to the beam-compass and other scales for rectilinear measurements. That applied to the barometer, Fig. 6967, will illustrate its principle, a representing the mercurial column, b the vernier, and c the barometer-scale, divided into inches and tenths. The vernier-scale i