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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 225 225 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 54 54 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 29 29 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 28 28 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
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 11 11 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 10 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 9 9 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 9 9 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. 7 7 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
) The cars of all descriptions which traverse the rails of a railway. See Loco-motive; Railway-car. See also list and general 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, and express cars4,157 Box, merchandise, and house cars87,009 Platform, gondola, and flat cars52,198 Stock-cars14,222 Coal-carsin it through a fine sieve, and liquefy the glue by heat. Add the rice, glue, and terra de sienna to the linseed-oil, and incorporate. Apply with a brush or trowel. See L. W. Sinsabaugh's Digest of paving and roofing compositions, Washington, 1875. 2. The ceiling of a mine. 3. The top of a standing-top carriage, coach, or car. The central, raised portion of a car-roof is the dome. 4. The arched top of a reverberatory furnace. Roof-guard. （Building.) A device for preventing
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ing features. In regard to the first it may be stated, as an instance in relation to one series of government issues, that the greenback series, so called, of 1869-75, embracing nine denominations, which have never been surpassed in excellence and artistic finish, and which have been suryears in circulation, two alone of the noteter. See life-Preserver. Webb's swim across the Straits of Dover, without artificial floats, and Boynton's trip with a lifepre-server dress, are recent feats (1875). The former, which is by far the more remarkable, occupied three tides; his point of landing was 21 1/4 miles distant, but the length of ground swum over was 39 1Carpentry.) A lap joint for the edges of boards, leaving a flat or flush surface. Syringe, by Hero. Sy′ren. See siren. See also Tyndall on sound, London, 1875, pages 61, 82, and frontispiece; also London engineer, January 21, 1876. Syr′inge. 1. A small hand-pump for ejecting water. Well described by Hero in his Sp
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
5; 175,971 of 1876. Bell's patents, 161,739 of 1875; 174,465 of 1876. In Gray's electric telegraal of the American electrical Society, Vol. I. 1875. See also Gray's patent, No. 175,971, dated Ap.PaigeDecember15, 1874. 164,037.RichardsJune1, 1875. 166,549.PattysonAugust10, 1875. 167,726.AllenSeptember14, 1875. 168,044.MillarSeptember21, 1875. 168,591.ThompsonOctober11, 1875. 169,215.WesottOctober26, 1875. 169,216.WestcottOctober26, 1875. 170,372.HookerNovember23, 1875. 170,593.Rich1875. 170,593.RichardsNovember30, 1875. Type-set′ting Tel′e-graph. One in which the message at the receiving ensenOctober19, 1875. 169,757.AlissoffNovember9, 1875. 170,233.CaseNovember23, 1875. 170,239.CrandallNovember23, 1875. 170,621.DemingNovember31, 1875. 171,139.JohnsonDecember14, 1875. 171,335.AllenDecember21, 1875. 171,408.MorganDecember21, 1875. See also the following English patents :— 1875. See also the following English patents :— No.Date.No.Date. 395, of1714.306, of1869. 9,204, of1841.997, of1869. 9,745, of1843.3,699, of1869[13 more.