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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 197 197 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 23 23 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 21 21 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) 18 18 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 15 15 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.) 13 13 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) 11 11 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.) 10 10 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. 9 9 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) 7 7 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
Its modern uses are indicated in the following patents, and the enumeration is made at some length, as the subject has been but lately revived, and one interested can in no other way so readily reach the present state of the art,—to borrow the conventional phrase, which is as good as any other. 1. Safes, lining for: W. Marr, English, 1834. Hyatt, several patents, United States, 1869-70. 2. Lamp-wick:British patents: 2071 of 1853.145 of 1857. 2647 of 1855.1610 of 1863. Lord Cochrane,1818. 3. Absorbent in lamps:Boyd, 1869. Beschke,1866. in carburetors:Bassett,1862. 4. Fire-brick and crucibles:Peters,1862. English patent 2318 of 1862, asbestos, fireclay, and graphite. Lewis, 1871. A covering of asbestus twisted into a rope and wound around a crucible. 5. Packing for hot-air engines:Lanbereau,1859. for explosive engines:Drake,1865. for steam engines:Drake,1865. combined with hair:Murphey,1870. loose flock asbestus;Hoke. 6. Boiler covering:Peters,1862.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
ed is yet a cardinal color. The Etruscan augurs wore jack-boots. The Lamas of Tartary wear red boots and yellow cloaks. They leave their boots in the vestibules of the temples. So do the Turks. The latter brought the practice from Central Asia. There bought a pair of boots; cost me 30 s. — Pepys, 1662. The boot and shoe making business, more particularly since the introduction of pegs, which are said to have been invented by Joseph Walker, of Hopkinton, Mass., about the year 1818, has become a very extensive and important branch of manufacture, machinery being employed in nearly all the operations connected with the business. The first application of machinery in shoemaking is due to the celebrated Brunel, who devised a series of machines, which were operated by invalid soldiers belonging to Chelsea Hospital. The shoe passed through a number of hands before being finished; the operation which each man had to perform was so simple that it is said that the manipulatio
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
ase the key. Should the key fail to act upon the bolt, it cannot be withdrawn, but the lock must be destroyed to release it. Chubb had a detector in his lock of 1818. 2. A means of indicating that the water in a boiler has sunk below the point of safety. See lowwater detector. De-tent′. A pin, stud, or lever forming and forth on the table to spread the supply of ink evenly around it. The arrangement was invented by Professor Cowper, and is described in his English patent of 1818. The distributing-roller in printing-machines carries ink from the ductor-roller to the inking-roller. To secure an even distribution, it is found necessary toe an endwise motion to the roller. This is secured in one of two ways. Professor Cowper's plan was to give a longitudinal motion to the axis (English patent, 1818). Applegarth's method was to place the axis of the distributing-roller obliquely to the surface against which it moved. It thus had a relative endwise mo- tio
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
June 21, 1864, consists of glue, 14 pounds; glycerine, 28 pounds; castor-oil, 2 1/4 pounds; borax, 3 ounces; ammonia, 2 ounces; sugar, 7 pounds. The endwise motion of the ink-distributing rollers is in the English patent of Professor Cowper, 1818. The diagonal arrangement of the inking-roller, to give it a relatively endwise motion to the inkingtable, is described in Applegath's English patent, 1823. Ink′ing-ta′ble. （Printing.) A table upon which ink is spread to be taken up by the inking-roller. The combination of inking-table, trough, and hand-roller was invented by Professor Cowper, and was described in his English patent, 1818. In his printing-machine, the inking-table passed back and forth under rollers which received an end motion at the same time by means of an indentation along the edge of the table acting upon a frame in which the rollers were mounted. In Applegath's English patent, 1823, the rollers are placed diagonally across the table and receive <
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
ternal iliac by Abernethy, 1796. The internal iliac by Alexander Stevens, in 1812. The common iliac successfully by Dr. Valentine Mott, in 1827. The common carotid by Sir Astley Cooper (successfully), in 1808. The innominata by Mott in 1818, and successfully by Dr. J. W. Smythe in 1864. Ambrose Pare, born at Laval, in France, in 1509, was a member of the fraternity of barber-surgeons; but, such was the reputation he acquired as an operator, he was made surgeon to four successive stained. The American Seal-Lock Company employs sheets of variegated glass, cut into strips, for this purpose. Access to the keyhole can only be obtained by breaking the glass, which of course cannot be replaced. See seal-lock. Chubb's lock, 1818, has six or more tumblers turning on a pin common to all. Each of these must be lifted to a different hight before a stud on the bolt can pass through a continuous aperture formed by a slot in each tumbler when all are in their proper position. S
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
he extension of the rod. The conical pendulum (g) is hung by a piece of small round wire. The lower end is connected with and driven in a circle by an arm attached to a vertical, rotating spindle. The pendulum-rod describes a cone in its revolution. A rolling pendulum, consisting of a cylinder oscillating in small spaces on a horizontal plane, has been suggested, but has not evinced any qualities superior to the suspended pendulum describing an arc. In Reid's compensation pendulum (1818) the bob rests in a hollow cylinder of zinc, through which the rounded end of the steel pendulum is passed, the zinc itself being supported by the nut at the end of the rod. As the rod lengthens by heat, carrying the bob downward, the upward expansion of the zinc lengthens the rod and raises the bob to an equal degree. The pendulum of the watch is an oscillating wheel termed the balance (h); this is impelled by the mainspring and train in one direction, and is returned by the force of the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
itish and French manufacture are in the museums of England and France; and the fire-arms of Collier, an American gunsmith, 1818, and of another American in 1819, have the defects of their predecessors. Colonel Colt is believed to be the first invent is the arm of John Dafts, of London, and has six chambers. e is Elisha Collier's arm, patented in the United States in 1818. The charge-cylinder has five chambers, and is turned by hand. The cylinder is held between two plates, of which the low the eighteenth century. 1256 is a gun of the same date, with six chambers. Revolvers (from the fifteenth century to 1818). 2. (Husbandry.) A hay or stubble rake whose head has two sets of teeth projecting from opposite sides in the same early inventions in this line, see,-- Le Demour1732 Inverted Barker's mill Jorge-West.1816 Massachusetts centrifugal1818 and 1830 Blake1831 Andrews1839 Whitelaw1841 and 1846 Gynne1844 Bessemer1846 and 1851 Andrew1846 and 1850 Van Schmid
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
n an oaken chest. Its lid was secured by three locks, which were forced open in 1818, because the keys could not anywhere be found, leaving us to infer that locksmitoe-pegs are said to have been invented by Joseph Walker, of Massachusetts, about 1818. They are made by machinery. The bark is peeled off the log, which is then sater, which were lightened for the purpose. Morton's slip (English), patented 1818, has been put down in many of the ports of Britain. Its chief feature is in pla38. 4. The revolving-grate furnace was introduced in England by Steel, about 1818, and afterward improved by Brunton and Murray. Steel's revolving-grate furnacle.) Comet (transverse section). Comet (side elevation of machinery). In 1818, Mr. Scarborough, of Savannah Ga., purchased in New York a ship of about 350 toneb of cloth passing over two rollers; but Heppenstall's improvement, patented in 1818, substituted a worm to turn two feeding-wheels to convey the straw to the knives
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
uth, 2. See alloy. Type-re-volv′ing press. （Printing.) That form of press in which the type is secured on a cylinder, which revolves and presents the form successively to the inking-roller and to the paper. See cylinder-press. Principles of type-revolving press's. Fig. 6850 shows the principles of the type-revolving presses. See printing-press. 1. Nicholson, 17906. Cowper, 1815 2. Nicholson, 1790.7. Cowper, 1815. 3. Konig, 1814.8. Applegath and Cowper. 4. Konig, 1818.9. Applegath and Cowper. 5. Donkin and Bacon, 1813.10. Applegath, 1827. Hoe's ten-cylinder machine is described and represented under cylinder-press. Plate XI. See also web-press; perfect-ing-press. Type-set′ting ma-chine′. A composingma-chine for type. There are several varieties of machines for this purpose. Ordinarily, they have separate pockets or galleys for each sort, and the mechanical arrangement is such that on touching the key, arranged with others like the keyboa