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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
ng arrangements of the wealthy Greeks seem to have been good, but the Asiatics said the Greeks do not know how to make a comfortable bed. But no town with Miletus vies In the bridal-bed's rich canopies. Critias; quoted by Athenaeus, A. D. 220. The Roman bedsteads were magnificent, and the weary climbed on to them by step-ladders on the open side; the other was closed by a side-board. The open side was sponda, the closed pluteus; the latter for the weaker vessel. The mattresses og, and usually napped. It may be twilled or otherwise. A name applied to any coarse woolen robe used as a wrapping. Antiphanes, that witty man, says: “Cooks come from Elis, pots from Argos, Corinth blankets sends in barges. ATHENAeUS (A. D. 220). The poncho is a blanket with a hole in the center for the head to go through. It is worn by the South Americans, Mexicans, and Pueblo Indians. 2. (Printing.) A piece of woolen, felt, or prepared rubber, placed between the inner and out
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
lows, And Carthage, carpets rich, and well-stuffed pillows. Hermippus, quoted by Athenaeus (A. D. 220). At the supper of Iphicrates, purple carpets were spread on the floor; and at the magnificentheir case-knives, with which each is provided. — Posidonius; quoted in the Deipnosophists (A. D. 220). Their platters are of earthenware, silver, brass, wood, or basket-work. — Ibid. Case—loed limbs compare With the soft and yielding Thessalian chair? Critias, quoted by Athenaeus (A. D. 220.) Henry VIII.'s chair. Fig. 1239 shows the chair of that every inch a king who was Defenderce, As that renowned, hardy race That dwells by Arno's tide. Critias, quoted by Athenaeus (A. D. 220). 2. (Metallurgy.) One of the edge-wheels which revolves in a trough, to grind substances tohe woman sitting up all night, a play by Alexis; quoted by ATHENAeUS in the Deipnosophists, A. D. 220. One mode of warming is noticed by Seneca and Pliny, and consisted in an arrangement of pipes <
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
in the time of Atys, to amuse the people during the famine, for the Heroic times are older than Atys. In Homer the suitors amused themselves in front of the door with dice [to determine by the chances who should claim Penelope]. —Athenieus, A. D. 220. Plato is more probably correct in ascribing them to the Egyptians, though the Sanscrit book is as old as the Pentateuch and the Pharaoh who knew Joseph. The Greek dice were cubes, and were numbered like our own, 6-1, 5-2, 4-3, so that the ohe vessel. Then reclosing the entrance, he drained the water off by means of engines; and when this had been done the vessel rested securely on the crossbeams. — Callixenus's Account of Alexandria, quoted by ATHENAeUS in his Deipnosophists, A. D. 220. This ship was 200 cubits long; 38 cubits beam; 48 cubits midship-hight. Of the United States dry-docks at South Brooklyn, No. 1 is 500 feet long, 60 feet wide at bottom, and capable of receiving vessels of 12 feet draft at low water, or 18
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
See one in Dr. Abbott's collection, New York. Homer mentions the barbed hooks as used by Ulysses and his companions in Sicily: — All fish and birds, and all that come to hand With barbed hooks. Odyssey, XII. 322 Athenaeus states (A. D. 220) that the hooks were not forged in Sicily, but were brought by them in their vessel. — Athen. Epit., B. I. 22. Of the Grecian fish-hooks, some were bent around and others were straight, with a barb. In the cut are shown a number of fish-hoos that the flute which is made out of the leg-bones of the kid is an invention of the Thebans; and Tryphon says that those flutes which are called elephan- tine [ivory] were first bored among the Phoenicians. — Deipnosophists, by ATHENAeUS, A. D. 220. The Phrygian deep-toned flute had a bell mouth, like a trumpet. — Ibid. So they had no lack of flutes and writers on the same 2,000 years ago. Flutes are extensively made and used by the Brazilian natives. The bones of which they are
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
t of the length of the solstitial shadow, made by Tschea-Kung, at Loyang, on the Yellow River, 1200 B. C., was found by Laplace (quoted by Humboldt in Cosmos, Val. 11. p. 1151 to accord perfectly with the present accepted theory of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic. The sun-dial and the gnomon, with the division of the day into twelve parts, were received by the Greeks from the Babylonians. Herodotus, 2. 109. Eubulus, the comie poet, quoted by Athenaeus, who wrote about A. D. 220, says: — We have invited two unequalled men, Philo-crates and eke Philocrates, — For that one man I always count as two, I don't know that I might not e'en say three. They say that once when he was asked to dinner, To come when first the dial gave a shade Of twenty feet, he with the lark uprose, Measuring the shadow of the morning sun, Which gave a shade of twenty feet and two. Off to his host he went, and pardon begged For having been detained by business; A man who came at daybreak t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
chaser. See Fig. 1256. In′side-tin. （Bookbinding.) A plate laid inside the cover of a book when placed in the standing-press. In′side-tool. （Wood-turning.) For hollowing out work and bottoming holes. In′soles. A thickness of cork, felt, flannel, leather, paper, etc., placed inside a shoe to protect the sole of the foot, or to improve the fit of the shoe. Suppose one's short, — They put cork soles within the heels of her shoes. Alexis; quoted by ATHENAeUS, A. D. 220. In-stan-ta′ne-ous Gen′er-at-or. A form of steam-boiler or generator, in which a small body of water is injected at a time into a highly heated vessel, flashing into steam immediately. It differs from ordinary boilers in there being no unvaporized water in the boiler. In most cases there is no steam-chest, and the theory has been to inject at each time a quantity sufficient for one impulse of the piston. The term flashers has been applied to this form of generators, from the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
our with lanterns and weapons. The moon rose at about 6 P. M. on that night, but it was probably cloudy, or Judas may have suspected that his master would hide in some covert on the mountain. Lanterns are referred to by the Greek authors: — The man who first invented the idea Of walking out by night with a lantern, Was very careful not to burn his fingers. Alexis. So taking out the candle from his lantern. Ibid. A well-lit horn lantern. Eumelus: quoted by ATHENAeUS, A. D. 220. The lanterns of Epictetus and Diogenes will not be soon forgotten. See also candle. Lanterns are referred to by the Roman authors Plautus, Martial, and Pliny; have been disinterred at Herculaneum and Pompeii. In the latter place, one was found in the vestibule of a house alongside a skeleton; the person was evidently trying to escape in the thick darkness of the descending ashes. We read of the use of lanterns in the games of the circus, the sacred games of Greece, in augury, and
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
nd emit a gentle and agreeable sound. And this organ is like a round altar, and they say was invented by Ctesibus the barber, who dwelt at that time in the territory of Aspendor, in the reign of the second Ptolemy, surnamed Euergetes, and they say that he was a very eminent man, and learnt a good deal from his wife Thais. Trypho, in his dissertation upon flutes and organs, says that Ctesibus, the mechanician, wrote a book about the hydraulic. — From the Deipnosophists, by Athenaeus, A. D. 220. A fuller description of an organ of this kind may be found in Vitruvius. An organ with pipes of varying length, and apparently about 10 feet high, is shown on a coin of the gentle Emperor Nero. He was much addicted to music, and is supposed to have also soothed his mind by the bagpipes. A Greek epigram in the Anthologia, attributed to the Emperor Julian, A. D. 364, has the following description: I see reeds of a new species, the growth of another and a brazen soil, agitated by a blast
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
all the requirements of a graphical representation of the phonetic system of a language. — Humboldt. Phoenician, Egyptian, and Greek writing. Phoenicia, mother of the arts, Letters to learned men imparts. Critias, quoted by ATHENAeUS (A. D. 220). The ancient Pelasgic, assumed to be the immediate parent of the Greek, was written from right to left, like the Phoenician, whence it came. j, Fig. 3613, is an inscription, [Ti]-mwn e/grafe/ me The letters are Phoenician, as used in early tiht, Boasts, as its birthplace, of the towers Which Neptune's and Minerva's powers From ills and dangers shield; Which beat back war's barbaric wave When Mede and Persian found a grave On Marathon's undying field. Critias; quoted by Atheneus, A. D. 220. The chronicler of the Deipnosophists goes on to say:— And indeed the pottery of Attica is deservedly praised. But Eubulus says: Cnidian pots, Sicilian platters, and Megarian jars. Perhaps no other art has done so much as the ceramic to
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
pled country. Sails come from Egypt, and this paper too. Hermippus; quoted by ATHENAeUS, A. D. 220. The Veneti, a tribe of the Belgae, had leathern sails managed by chains. The Romans tore thcular, these are either in guts or dabs. Axionicus, in the Chalcis, quoted by Athenaeus, A. D. 220, says: — I am making hash, Putting in well-warmed fish, and adding to them Some scarce half-eperson who ever invented the helix. — Moschion, quoted in the Deipnosophists by ATHENAeUS, A. D. 220. The differential screw was invented by John Hunter, the celebrated surgeon. It is a combina For the art of weaving embroidered cloths was in great perfection in his time.—ATHENAeUS (A. D. 220). Sof′fit. （Architecture.) a. The lower surface or intrados of an arch. b. The ceilinponge, on the idea that will make the occupiers more amorous. — ATHENAeUS, Epil. B. I. 32 (A. D. 220). For the purpose of stuffing mattresses, it is dipped in glycerine to give it the requi
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