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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 158 158 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 105 105 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 72 72 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 13 13 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.) 12 12 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 10 10 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 8 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 6 6 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 4 4 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) 4 4 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
number of distinct pieces, so as to form a complete and perfect whole; as, the cheeks and stock of a gun-carriage, with their connected parts; the lock, stock, and barrel of a musket, etc. The term is more peculiarly applicable to the fitting together parts which are made strictly to fixed shapes and dimensions so as to be promiscuously interchangeable. The system of interchangeability of parts was first introduced into the French Artillery service by General Gribeauval, about the year 1765. Previous to this time each part of a gun-carriage was made specially for that carriage alone, and could not be used for repairing any other, unless after extensive alterations. Gribeauval simplified the system, or rather want of system, then in vogue, by reducing the carriages into classes, and so arranging many of the parts that they could be applied indiscriminately to all carriages of the class for which they were made. This system was farther simplified and extended, and was finally
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
a butt-piece and mounted on wheels, was introduced (A, Fig. 2339). Subsequent improvements brought them nearly to the form B, which represents a carriage of the Gribeauval pattern. Gribeauval, a French artillery officer, made great improvements, 1765, in gun-carriages and the organization of artillery, reducing the size of the parts, and making the similar parts, for those of the same class, interchangeable; he also added a tongue, so that two horses could draw abreast, and made the limbers soisplacement of the plane of vibration of the pendulum. Foucault (1852) first connected this fact with the diurnal motion of the earth, which he illustrated by means of a pendulum (see pendulum) and a gyroscope contrived by him. Bohnenberger's (1765-1831) apparatus (A, Fig. 2350) consists of a disk or sphere suspended in gimbals, which are mounted in a ring supported on a stand. The interior ball and ring may be set at any angle with the outer one, and rotation imparted by a string, when i
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
that purpose have been almost innumerable; in fact, anything having a fibrous texture may be used, and the question resolves itself into one of economy. See pulp-boiler. Koops in 1800 published a work on paper, which was printed on paper made of straw, with an appendix on paper made of wood. A second edition was published in 1801, upon paper re-made from old printed and written paper. In 1835, Piette published a work on the subject of Paper from straw, etc., giving 160 specimens. In 1765, Schaeffer, of Ratisbon, printed a book on sixty varieties of paper made from as many different materials; a copy is now in the Smithsonian Institute Library. In 1786, the Marquis de Vilette published in London a small book, printed on paper made from marsh mallow; at the end are leaves of paper manufactured at Bruges from twenty different plants, such as nettles, hops, reeds, etc. The following is a list of materials (numbering in all 402) from which paper has been made or proposed to
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
factories, was hard to make, and comparatively hard to run. The system of assembling — first introduced in the artillery service of France by General Gribeauval in 1765, and brought to proximate perfection by Colonel Colt in the manufacture of his revolver at Hartford, Connecticut — has economized material and time, and improved en in the history of steam-navigation. Mr. Bell visited the heat in its desolate condition. Robert Fulton was born in Little Britain, Lancaster County, Pa., in 1765, and studied as a watchmaker. He afterward studied as a painter with Benjamin West. He brought forward his ideas of steam-navigation in 1793, and corresponded wi pintlehook of the limber. Field and siege gun-carriages are made in this way which have been in use since about 1830, having superseded the Gribeauval pattern (1765), in which the checks rested on the ground, and served the purposes of the stock in the stock trail carriage. Stock-yard. An inclosure for cattle on the way
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
woman, published in 1607, one of the characters says: A most vile face and yet she spends me forty pounds a year in mercury and hog's bones. All her teeth were made in the Blackfriars Ivory was for many years the favorite material for artificial teeth, that from the hippopotamus being preferred. The teeth of the narwhal, as being somewhat harder, were also used. Volney, Chateaubriand, the elder Pitt, and George Washington also used artificial dentures thus made. See denture. About 1765 Pierre Lavouse, a workman in the royal porcelain works at Sevres, France, made rude imitation teeth of porcelain, but the art was not practiced to any considerable extent until about forty years ago, when it began to be utilized in the United States, where it has now developed into a manufacture of no inconsiderable importance. The principal materials employed are feldspar, silica, and kaolin, with various fluxes for promoting fusion. Coloring materials, as titanium for yellow, platinum s