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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
sure of steam, or by producing a partial vacuum. Rumford's percolator. The percolator was invented by Count Rumford. The ground coffee is pressed between perforated diaphragms, so as by compactness to prevent the water from filtering through too quickly. 2. Coffee-pots having arrangements for condensing the steam and the essential oil, — which constitutes the aroma of the coffee, — and returning them to the infusion. An early arrangement of this kind is the Bencini patent, September 27, 1838. See also Martell's patent, 1825; Rowland, 1844; Waite and Sener, Old Dominion, 1856. These have lids or upper chambers to condense the steam. 3. Coffee-pots of peculiar construction, as: — Hotte, 1870; a furnace inside the coffee-pot. Manning, 1869; an earthenware lining to a metallic pot. Gibson, 1871; a flat breast to prevent lateral tilting when the pot is tipped forward. Suspended on journals over a lamp and tipped on its bearings. A strainer suspended from the<
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
son was again wounded. He was, however, ready for the fray when General Longstreet went to Georgia, in September, and took part in the battle of Chickamauga. Later in the month General Robertson was sent to Texas to take command of a reserve corps. In 1865 he was commanding a brigade of Maxwell's division in Arkansas. After the war he settled in Waco, Tex., where he still lived in 1898. Brigadier-General Lawrence Sullivan Ross Brigadier-General Lawrence Sullivan Ross was born September 27, 1838, at Brentonsport, Iowa, whence, in the following spring, his father, Capt. Shapley P. Ross, moved to Texas. He was educated at the Wesleyan university, at Florence, Ala. While at home on a vacation, he organized his first company, composed of 135 men, and hastened to the support of Gen. Earl Van Dorn, then in command of the Second United States cavalry. Joining forces with that officer, he took part in the battle of Wichita, against the Comanche Indians, where 95 red men were slain