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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 186 186 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 40 40 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 26 26 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. 20 20 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 11 11 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 10 10 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 6 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 6 6 Browse Search
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H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 5 5 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
iewing the history of the airengine for the seventy years succeeding Glazebrook, we may at least say that he is a great anticipator. Glazebrook's second patent, 1801, has a refrigeratory, whose use is not, as in Randolph's (Scotland, 1856), to cool the pump wherein the air is condensed (see compressed-air engine), but is used f for it is found in the specification of Lilley, English patent, 1819, and in Glazebrook's, 1797. This patent of Glazebrook, in connection with his improvement of 1801, may be considered the most remarkable one of the series, and has just been mentioned. The action of Ericsson gave a great impetus to the invention and building os is not expended, but the same air is caused to return to the heater and be again expanded and utilized. This is the subject of the English patent of Glazebrook, 1801, and Laubereau, 1859; and the United States patent of the latter dated 1849. 3d. Those engines in which the air or gas is not expended, but occupies two reserv
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
f nuts and screws. The sides of the canal are built of cut-stone upon the cast-iron bed; they are 5 1/2 feet thick on each side, and the stone is backed with hard-burned brick laid in cement. The sides have iron railings. It was completed in 1801, and cost about $100,000. Another aqueduct on the same canal, the Ellesmere and Chester, at Pont-y-Cysyllte, is 1,007 feet long, and the water-level is 127 feet above the waters of the Dee. It has 2 abutments and 18 piers. The piers are foundenchor out. Club-com′pass-es. A pair of compasses with a bullet or cone on one leg to set in a hole. Apparatus for Talipes Varus. Club-foot, Appa-ra′tus for. Sheldrake's apparatus for club-feet and other deformities (English patent, 1801) proceeds upon the principle of continued, repeated, and varied application of springs to correct the abnormal deflection of the part. Tiemann's apparatus for talipes varus has a strong leather shoe with a metallic sole and a joint near the hee
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
d at the negative and oxygen at the positive end of the wire. Davy, afterwards Sir Humphry Davy, by the aid of the apparatus of the Royal Institution at London, the most powerful then in existence, proved by a series of experiments, commencing in 1801, that many substances hitherto considered as elementary bodies could be decomposed by voltaic action, and succeeded in 1807 in resolving the fixed alkalies soda and potash. Faraday, 1833, besides his extensive additions to the science of electro-le at the same time a beautiful arborescent precipitation of metallic silver took place on the lower wire. Acetite of lead and sulphat of copper were similarly decomposed and precipitated on the lower wire. — Monthly Magazine, August, 1800. In 1801, Wallaston demonstrated that a piece of silver in connection with a more positive metal placed in a bath of sulphate of copper became covered with copper and would stand burnishing. It was not until 1838 that Mr. Spencer gave it a practical bea
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
edruth, Cornwall, England, erected a gas-distilling apparatus and lighted his house and offices by gas distributed through service-pipes. In 1798, Murdoch lighted with gas the works of Boulton and Watt, Soho, near Birmingham. On the occasion of a public rejoicing for peace, 1802, he made an illumination of the Works; probably an outside exhibition of his pet, on the walls of the establishment. Trafalgar, Austerlitz, and Jena, within four years afterwards, is a curious commentary. In 1801, Le Bon, of Paris, lighted his house and garden, and proposed to light the city of Paris. The English periodicals of 1803 and thereabout refer to the proposition of Murdoch to use the gas obtained by the distillation of coal, and state that the use of the gas for light, heat, ammonia, or oil would be an infringement of the patent of the Earl of Dundonald; farther, that the amount of water produced by the combination of the hydrogen of the gas and the oxygen of the air would suffuse the cur
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
d two side arches of 210 feet span each.245,308 English tons of 2,240 pounds.Rennie. 1836 Carrousel Scine318715.5Poloncean. 1859TarasconRhone204 416.6 1854St. PetersburgNeva15013.8 New BlackfriarsThames5185 And four spans of 155, 175, 175, 155 feet; roadway and sidewalk, 75 feet wide.17 Georgetown Aqueduct Two cast-iron pipes having a water-way of 42 inches, arched in form, carrying the roadway and forming conduits for the water supply of Washington.Rock Creek120020Meigs. In 1801 Telford proposed a cast-iron bridge (a, Fig. 2701) of 600 feet span across the Thames, and 2701) in preference to the suspension-bridge of 570 feet span erected by him. Other forms of iron-bridges involve the use of wrought-iron, as in the examples a, b, c, Fig. 2702, which are combinations of the arch and truss. a is known as the rectangular tubular arch bridge. b, iron-arch and lattice-girder bridge. c, strut girder bridge. d. The Kuilinburg bridge over the Leck, an arm of th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), J. (search)
tation of cashmere, and its setting up and arrangement were very troublesome and expensive. The great war minister Carnot is reported to have said to Jacquard, Are you the man who can do what the Almighty cannot: tie a knot on a stretched string? Jacquard, improving on the model of Vaucanson, produced the apparatus which bears his name, and was rewarded with a pension of 1,000 francs. This was afterwards increased to 6,000. He was also awarded a bronze medal at the French Exposition in 1801. On returning to Lyons, he met with great opposition from the weavers there, who endeavored to forcibly suppress the invention. The Conseil de Prudhommes, a board of master workmen in the various branches of trade, who are appointed to look after the manufacturing interests, adjust wages, and settle disputes between masters and workmen, ordered his machine to be broken up in the public place, and, according to Jacquard's own expression, the iron sold for iron, the wood for wood, and he, t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
Harvey's pin machine1770. Frost's point-net machine1777. Dawson's point-net machine1791. Heathcoat's bobbin-net machine1801. Hill's plain ground net machine1816. Limerick lace made1829. Laced-stocking. A bandage support for varicose veia. The compass-joint for the knee, and the ball-andsocket joint for the ankle, are described in Pott's English patent, 1801. Fig. 2894 is an artificial leg adapted for leg amputation at the upper third, where the knee rests in a cushioned sockyet inventing. He is entitled to the credit of first making the double-acting high-pressure steam-engine a success. In 1801, he built a floating dredging-machine, to which he fitted wheels connected with the engine, and conveyed it 1 1/2 miles toe art of figureweaving. Joseph Maria Jacquard was born at Lyons, 1752; invented his loom for weaving figured fabrics in 1801; and died at Orleans in 1834. The action of the Jacquard in producing patterns upon fabric may be briefly described as
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
n 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 gland, where, in fact, the invention was first brought into practical working form. Gamble, in 1801, obtained a patent for a machine similar to that of Robert, but the credit of introducing the macnment to Robert for his invention, and leave granted him to take his working model to England. 1801. John Gamble, an Englishman, who had accompanied L. Didot from Paris with Robert's machine, obtaie activity of the violet and blue rays as compared with the rest of the spectrum. Ritter, in 1801, proved the existence of dark rays beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum, by the power th1799 by the French savans, during their researches under Napoleon's orders. A periodical work of 1801 thus describes this work in connection with a similar work at the base of a peristyle at Esne:—
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
st English patent for a fire-resisting safe was to Richard Scott, in 1801. It consisted of an inner and outer casing of iron or other metal, fire. John and James Robertson, of Glasgow, patented a furnace in 1801, in which, by means of a pipe, air was admitted directly into the boation of all the glory is amusing. Fulton visited Symington about 1801 or 1802, and they had a pleasant chat and a trip together eight mileurnace. Mushet's process for making steel, patented in England in 1801, consists in placing malleable iron in scraps or bars in a crucible which originated with Volta, Cruickshank, and Wollaston, about 1800-1801. In 1838, Spencer, of London, made casts of coins and cast in intagis subject in New York, 1810. His experiments were made at Brest in 1801. On July 3, in that year, he embarked with three companions on boarCreek, between Uniontown and Greensburg, Pa., taking out a patent in 1801; in 1811 eight bridges had been built on his plan, which does not se