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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 27 27 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. 22 22 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
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
an to the Dutch Embassy in the seventeenth century. It was revived in France in 1810. The English needles are long, made of steel, and have knobbed heads to facilit This idea suggested by Dr. Papin about 1695, patented by Medhurst in England 1810, on the air-compression principle, and by Vallanee in 1824 on the exhaust princid are those of Coates, 1803, and Cruttenden, 1809; gates added the quartering in 1810. The Patent-Office records perished in the fire of 1836. We find that in Mitch that intervened between Papin and Medhurst, who again urged the project about 1810. Medhurst, in 1810, published an account of a new method of conveying goods a1810, published an account of a new method of conveying goods and letters by air, and in 1812 extended the idea so as to provide for the transmission of passengers, whom he proposed to transport at the rate of fifty miles per hou in 1809. An automaton speaking several sentences was exhibited in London about 1810. See Brewster's Natural magic. The speaking machine invented by a Viennese,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
the weight. Long nails of Swedish iron are driven through the heel and shank, clinching on the inner sole; three to the heel and six to the shank. The sides are closed by hand with a six-stranded thread that will hold 100 pounds weight. 2. (Carriage.) The receptacle for baggage, etc., at either end of a coach. 3. (Menage.) Protection for the feet of horses, enveloping the foot and a part of the leg. A convenient substitute for swaddling or bandaging. Patented in England by Rotch, 1810. They are used on the feet of horses while standing in a stable, to keep the feet moist and prevent cracking or contraction of the hoofs. They may be lined with sponge, which is kept damp. The boot has an upper and sole, and is shaped to the foot nearly. The upper part has a draw-string. They are also used for various affections of the legs and feet, such as varicose veins, splint, speedycut, strain. In such cases they are made to fit more closely. Boot-calk. A spur for the bo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
cay and the Mediterranean respectively. The project was agitated as early as 1555, and various surveys and reports were made, as well as several commencements attempted. The lavish expenditure upon the buildings and parks for the personal aggrandizement of Louis XIV, delayed the works of public utility, and it was not till near the end of the last century that it was opened. Its length is 114.322 metres. The canal uniting the Somme and the Scheldt was undertaken in 1776 and completed in 1810. The length is 32 1/2 miles. The canal of Orleans is 45 miles long, uniting the Loire and the Seine. The canal between the Baltic and North Seas at Kiel was opened 1785. That from the Cattegat to the Baltic, 1794-1800. The main line of the Ganges Canal, 525 miles long, for irrigating the country between the Ganges and the Jumna, was opened in 1854. When completed, it will be 900 miles long, and will irrigate 1,470,000 acres. Its estimated cost is £ 1,555,548. Sir Proby Cautley, engi
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
South Foreland light in 1752, and in the Portland light, England, in 1789. The system fell into disfavor, owing to certain mechanical difficulties in the construction and arrangement of the lenses. It was revived and improved by Fresnel about 1810, and has been generally adopted throughout France and Holland, and partially in England. It is considered superior to the catoptric, and was readopted in England in 1834, being placed in the Lundy Island Lighthouse, Devonshire, England. The Frwett dock to hold 200 sail of ships. — Ibid, 1662. Of the docks of London: — Pitt laid the foundation-stone of the West-India August 15, 1800; opened in 1802. London docks, built 1802 – 5. Victoria, 1855. The Livcrpool and Birkenhead docks, 1810 – 57. 2. (Harness.) The divided piece forming part of the crupper, through which the horse's tail is inserted. Dock′er. A stamp for cutting and piercing dough in making crackers or sea-biscuit. Doc′tor. A part in a machine fo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
eek and other sources. Among them are oeolophon, oeolomusicon, physharmonica, melodeon, symphonium, and poikiorguc. The free tongues of the harmonium, though used from time immemorial by the Chinese, were introduced into Europe by M. Grenie in 1810. Harmo-nom′e-ter. An instrument for ascertaining the harmonic relation of sounds. It often consists of a single string with movable bridges. Har′ness. 1. (Menage.) The means whereby a draft animal is attached to a vehicle. The ineady foundation on the ground. It is placed on the foot of the well hind leg, so as to compel or induce the animal to throw the weight of the hind quarters on the other foot to reduce the luxation or weakness at the stifle-joint of the leg. In 1810, Rotch obtained an English patent for an elastic horseshoe, consisting of a sheet-iron sole attached to an india-rubber upper, which was slipped upon the foot, clasping the crown and encircling the pastern. A regular shoe was riveted to the shee
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
ising vapor withdraws from the water will presently reduce the temperature to the freezing-point, and the liquid will be converted into ice. In 1755, Dr. Cullen discovered that removing the pressure of air facilitated evaporation to a degree which enabled him to freeze water even in summer. In 1777, Mr. Nairne discovered that introducing sulphuric acid into an exhausted receiver absorbed an aqueous vapor from and thereby dried rarefied air; and by an arrangement on these principles, in 1810, by which he got rid of the vapor that rose from the water, he prevented its forming a permanent atmosphere, so as to prevent the continuance of the operation. Professor Leslie succeeded in freezing quantities of water from 1 to 1 1/2 pounds in weight, though he could not effect the congelation of much larger quantities. This method of promoting evaporation John Vallance, in 1824, improved by removing the atmospheric pressure, which enabled him to carry off the vapor from large surfaces of
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
ard on to the knees. 3. To prevent the unhairing or abrasion of the hide by hopples. See hopple. Rotch's flexible elastic horseshoe, patented in England in 1810, and with improvements in 1830, consisted of a sheet-metal sole and a body of india-rubber made to fit over the crown and upon the pastern. The immediate purpose ed in some lighthouses about 1752 – 59, but owing to the imperfections of glass and manufacture, they were not in much favor till the improvements of Fresnel about 1810. See dioptric light. The cata-dioptric light is a combination of the two, as its name indicates. See Cata-dioptric light. The oxyhydrogen light and the v Other parabolic reflectors were afterwards added. The frame was turned to make the light revolve. The dioptric system of Fresnel was eventually adopted, about 1810, and is likely to remain intact for many years, though the electric light may supersede the Argand burner which he used. The lenses of the Tour de Corduan proje
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
ither in a pickle or brine, or drysalted, which latter way is more expensive, but retains more of the nutritive qualities of the meat. A mode of salting by wholesale is by an injection of brine and saltpeter into the heart of the animal immediately after it is killed. The brine penetrates the whole vascular system, expelling the blood, and flows from the right ventricle in a clear stream. The first attempt to preserve meat by canning in airtight vessels was made by M. Appert, at Paris, 1810. His process consisted in partly cooking the meat, placing it in a glass vessel in a bath of chloride of calcium, and then hermetically sealing it. The modern process of putting up preserved meats is substantially as follows: — The meat is placed in the can, which is then filled up with soup. A cover pierced with a small hole is then soldered on. The can is placed in a bath of a solution of chloride of calcium, which boils at about 320° Fah. When the generated steam has expelled the a
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
u-mat′ic Rail′way. A railroad whose rolling stock is driven by the compression or exhaustion of air in a tube laid parallel to the track. The plan has a number of variations, which are considered under atmospheric Railway. Medhurst's plan (1810-12), and the one adopted in the Crystal Palace Railway, Sydenham, England, was to run the car on rails laid in the tube, a fringe on the carriage acting as a packing to keep the air from passing the carriage, which thus forms a piston in the tube. Vitalian at Constantinople some 700 years afterward, and Buffon performs the same feats with burning mirrors in a peaceable way, about the middle of the last century, upon metals, green wood, and various intractable minerals. See page 410. In 1810, Medhurst took out a patent in England for a means of conveying goods, letters, parcels, and passengers by means of a tube and a blast of compressed air. (Plenum.) He proposed to apply it to driving passenger-cars at the rate of fifty miles per ho
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
pers were of wood. Woodhouse's hollow rail (e), with a channel for the rounded edge of the wheel, 1803. The fish-bellied rail at Penrhyn, 1805. Blenkinsop's rack-rail (f), 1811. See Fig. 2984, page 1344. A square-bodied cast rail (g), 1810. Losh and Stephenson's flanged rail (h), 1816. This was a lapping continuous rail. Hawk's cast-iron face upon a wrought-iron base. 1817. Birkenshaw's malleable face upon a cast base, 1820. Birkenshaw, of Bedlington, Durham, invented thn some reed-pipes the tongue is made to batter against its seat as in the clarinet; in others the tongue plays in the opening of the reed. The free-reed has been used in China from time immemorial, but was introduced into Europe by M. Grenie in 1810. The reed or tube has a longitudinal, narrow opening in front, covered by the tongue, which is firmly fixed to the reed at its upper end, but plays freely at the lower end, where it is somewhat bent away from the reed. A turning wire presses ag
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