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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 202 202 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 45 45 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 38 38 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 26 26 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.) 25 25 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 19 19 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) 18 18 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 18 18 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
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 12 12 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
rcurial column, the lower part containing a thermometer. The graduations commence at 15 inches, are carried up to 33 inches, above the zero point, and are subdivided so as to read to thousandths of an inch by means of a vernier. Moun′tain-blue. Carbonate of copper. Malachite. Moun′tain-cork. A spongy, elastic variety of asbestus; light enough to float in water. Moun′taingreen. A carbonate of copper combined with a white earth. Mountain-howitzer (Ashantee expedition, 1873-74). Moun′tainhow′it-zer. A light field-piece, of large caliber in proportion to its weight. It is mounted on a light carriage which may be drawn by one horse. The howitzer and its carriage may each be packed on the back of a horse or mule. The piece shown in the cut is a gun of the howitzer battery made for the negro contingent in the Ashantee war, just concluded. Sir Garnet Wolseley's dash on Coomassie is something of which to be proud. Moun′tain-leath′er. A variet
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ating the boiler and retorts. In the invention of Olney, 1874. and St. John, 1874, the petroleum is vaporized by steam c1874, the petroleum is vaporized by steam coils in the still or the jacket of it back into the column or the retort, one or more of the valves of the worm-connecting ted States Navy. Hunter's steering-propeller C, patented 1874, is similar to the Fowler propeller in some respects. It hneer to dental plates; molds by heat and pressure. Hunt, 1874; Newton, 1872; Pursell, 1872; Troutman, 1871, refer to the 143,772.McClelland1873. 136,735.Jones1873. 150,722.Smith1874. 156,352.Hyatt1874. 156,353.Hyatt1874. 153,196.Hunt1874.1874. 156,353.Hyatt1874. 153,196.Hunt1874. English patents:— 2,359of 1855. 653of 1857. 2,740of 1859. 2,249of 1860. 1,129of 1867. 2,666of 1867. 536of 18681874. 153,196.Hunt1874. English patents:— 2,359of 1855. 653of 1857. 2,740of 1859. 2,249of 1860. 1,129of 1867. 2,666of 1867. 536of 1868. 3,984of 1868. 3,102of 1869. Pyx. A box, The word is derived from the Latin pyxis. The Greek word is similar. The1874. English patents:— 2,359of 1855. 653of 1857. 2,740of 1859. 2,249of 1860. 1,129of 1867. 2,666of 1867. 536of 1868. 3,984of 1868. 3,102of 1869. Pyx. A box, The word is derived from the Latin pyxis. The Greek word is similar. The box-tree (Latin, buxus) was then, as now, a favorite material for boxes of superior quality, as is evidenced by the common <
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
after persistent attempts for twelve years past. Some of the machines were sent into the harvest-fields the past summer (1874), and a thousand will probably go out next season. Binding attachment to wood's reaping and automatic binding-machine. used with it; the nipple and percussion-cap were substituted in 1864; the plunger exploder, in 1873; the Berdan primer, in 1874. The cartridge cases g are of sheet-metal, sufficiently thick to permit their being used an indefinite number of times, having studs or ribs fitting the grooves; as the Armstrong and others. American and Irish teams shooting at Creedmoor (1874). 3. Muzzle-loading guns having projectiles with part by an incline. The studs on the shot are only half the width ofgeneral index under Railway Engi-Neering and plant. The return of railway rolling-stock, as given in Poor's manual for 1874, 1875, on the roads of the United States and Canada, is as follows:— Passenger-cars of all classes2,990 Baggage, mail,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ars past, and the following table is given as showing the sales of fifteen companies for the year 1874, but two of the numbers being estimated:— Machines. The Singer Manufacturing Co.241,679 Wheeps City of Chester (4,566 tons) and City of Richmond (4,607 tons), covering the whole of the year 1874:— city of Chester. city of Richmond. Voyage.d.h.m.Voyage.d.h.m. First8138First81158 Se96,534, of 1869.127,512, of 1872.138,290, of 1873. 102,013, of 1870.136,769, of 1872.146,163, of 1874. 118,439, of 1871.136,244, of 1873.146,454, of 1874. 118,425, of 1871.139,393, of 1873. Stere1874. 118,425, of 1871.139,393, of 1873. Stereotype planing and sawing machine. Ste′re-o-type Ma′trix-ma-chine′. See Ty-Pographic machine. Ste′re-o-type-met′al. The alloy for stereotype-plates is composed of the same materials as oodate 210,000 head of cattle. The value of the live-stock received and forwarded during the year 1874 was nearly $80,000,000. There are now 100 acres of pens for cattle, all floored with three
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
n the Ossicula, Trans. Am. Otological Society, 1874. Another step in the direction of the conveyts Nos. 1,740 and 2,646 of 1874; 947 and 974 of 1874. In Cour, 2,999 of 1874. Gray's United States1874. Gray's United States patents, 166,094, 156,095, 166,096, of 1875; 175,971 of 1876. Bell's patents, 161,739 of 1875; 174strian Commission, 1868; Army and Navy journal, 1874; Revue maritime, September, 1872, January, 18737.FosterApril14, 1874. 150,234.FarnhamApril28, 1874. 152,869.ReynoldsJuly7, 1874. 152,868.Reynold1874. 152,868.ReynoldsJuly7, 1874. 157,694.PaigeDecember15, 1874. 164,037.RichardsJune1, 1875. 166,549.PattysonAugust11874. 157,694.PaigeDecember15, 1874. 164,037.RichardsJune1, 1875. 166,549.PattysonAugust10, 1875. 167,726.AllenSeptember14, 1875. 168,044.MillarSeptember21, 1875. 168,591.ThompsonOctober1874. 164,037.RichardsJune1, 1875. 166,549.PattysonAugust10, 1875. 167,726.AllenSeptember14, 1875. 168,044.MillarSeptember21, 1875. 168,591.ThompsonOctober11, 1875. 169,215.WestcottOctober26, 1875. 169,216.WestcottOctober26, 1875. 170,372.HookerNovembe57, of1864.927, of1874. 1,412, of1864.1,786, of1874. 2,687, of1864.2,131, of1874. 1,186, of1866.31874. 1,186, of1866.3,528, of1874. 1,448, of1866.2,119, of1875. 3,163, of1866. Ty-po-graph′ic ma-chine′. One in [9 more...]<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
U. U-dom′e-ter. An instrument to determine the quantity of rain-fall. A rain-gage (see pages 1871– 1874). An ombrometer or pluviameter. Ul′tra-ma-rine′. A blue color, originally prepared from lapis lazuli, but now usually produced by chemical means. The credit of first artificially producing this beautiful pigment at a price enabling it to be extensively employed in the arts appears to be due to Guimet. Umbilical bandage and truss. Um-bil′i-cal Band′age. （Surgical.) A broad band of fabric which is buckled around the umbilical region of the body to serve as an abdominal supporter and for palliating umbilical hernia. Some have hard pads of wood, cork, or metal, and others are provided with pads of sponge, horsehair, or other sort material, or of india-rubber inflated with air (A, Fig. 6853). B is an umbilical truss, designed for the same purposes. Um-brel′la. A light frame covered with fabric and held above the head as a protection against