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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 14 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. 4 0 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.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
iron. Staples pass through the inner and middle plates and into the outer one; the loop of each staple is let into a recess in the side of the vessel, and is caught by a bolt which passes through the side and is secured in the interior. The following statement from the London times contains the dimensions of a number of English ironclads, with the thickness of their armor, etc. Names.Tonnage.Horse-Power.Length.Beam.Protected Guns designed for.Thickness of Armor.Thickness of Backing. Achilles6,2211,25038058264 1/218 Black Prince6,1091,85038058264 1/218 Warrior6,1091,25038058264 1/218 Agincourt6,6211,35040059365 1/210 Minotaur6,6211,35040059365 1/210 Northumberland6,6211,35040059365 1/210 Hector4,08980028056324 1/218 Valiant4,06380028056324 1/218 Defence3,72060028054164 1/218 Resistance3,71060028054164 1/218 Caledonia4,1251,00027359324 1/2Wood ship, side 29 1/2 in. Ocean4,0471,00027358324 1/2Wood ship, side 29 1/2 in. Prince Consort4,0451,00027358324 1/2Wood ship, sid
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
s. Good sense stepped in and countermanded the absurd order. See door. Carv′ing—chisel. A chisel having an oblique edge and a basil on both sides. A skew chisel. Carv′ing—knife. A large-sized knife used for cutting meat at table. It is usually handsomely mounted. The carving-knives of two centuries since were a part of the state service of the refectory. Those represented had the grace before meat and that after meat, with the music of the intonation. Grace-knives. Achilles carved for his visitors, and each was expected to eat his mess without grumbling. Joseph sent to Benjamin a larger mess than to either of the other brothers. As to behavior at table, we learn from Plutarch and others that paring the nails at table was the height of vulgarity; speaking loud, spitting and coughing, were unregarded trifles. As the guests had no forks, they wiped their greasy fingers on soft bread, which they then threw to the dogs. The dogs eat of the crumbs. Napkins c
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
e was heated in contact with incandescent charcoal, the viscid mass being hammered to remove earthy impurities. This plan is yet practiced in India, Africa, Malaya, Madagascar, and forms the Mass of iron, shapeless from the forge, offered by Achilles as a prize at the funeral games of Patroclus, recorded in Homer's twenty-third book of the Iliad. Dr. Livingston refers to the iron-smelting furnaces of the tribes encountered in his Expedition to the Zambesi. The articles produced by these s of arming and of protecting; the shaded portions indicating the partial protection only, afforded in some instances to the battery and engines, and at about the water-line. a shows the Warrior and Black Prince class of 6,039 tons. b, the Achilles, of the same size. c, the Defence and Resistance, 3,668 tons. d, the Hector and Valiant, 4,063 tons. c, the Northumberland, Minotaur, and Agincourt, 6,621 tons. f, the Prince Consort, Royal oak, Royal Alfred, Ocean triumph, and Caled
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
ged as to prevent their being opened, while a third, the after one, was shot away entirely, the pivot on which it revolved being broken off, and it was through this that the fragment of shell entered which wounded Admiral Buchanan, as he was standing near, directing a gunner to clear away some splinters with which it had become filled. Ten shots struck in close contiguity to this port, which it was early discovered it was impossible for her crew to close, and this really became the heel of Achilles to the fated Tennessee. Somewhere between forty and fifty shots struck her during the fight in nearly every part of the boat, but not one penetrated her impervious armor. One 15-inch shell from the monitor Manhattan, as is supposed, made a deep indentation which must have caused her to stagger, but bounded off from her ribs of steel. The impact of the blow, however, stove through her two feet of wooden blocking, and produced inside all the evidences of the missile's having come through.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
nding to certain expressions in a tabulated code, or may be employed to represent the letters of the alphabet. In the prophecy of Jeremiah (588 B. C.), chap. VI. verse 1, we find:— O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoah, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem; for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. Homer, some 400 years before, had compared the aureola which surrounded the head of Achilles to the signals made in besieged cities, by fires at night and clouds of smoke by day; and Aeschylus, more than a century after Jeremiah, using perhaps a poetical license, makes Agamemnon announce the fall of Troy to Clytemnestra by beacon-fires, whose rays, darting from the Asiatic shore to Lemnos, were repeated from Mount Athos, whence the grateful news was in like manner telegraphed to Argos. Fire-signals were prepared by Mardonius to notify his master, the great king Xerxes, then at Sa
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
k, stripes, barge-boards, and scalloped bordering, which become it, and are mere arbitrary and extraneous ornaments to the more formal styles. Tents form an important part of the equipment of an army in the field, and much ingenuity has been exerted in endeavoring to secure the maximum of accommodation and comfort with a minimum of weight and space. See accouterments, Fig. 19. They are known as Bell-tent,Marquee,Sibley-tent, Hospital-tent,Shelter-tent,Wall-tent, etc. The tent of Achilles was a wooden hut covered with reeds. Such were sometimes used by the Romans in winter. On the Trajan and Antonine columns are four-square tents with slanting roofs, and also conical tents. They were sometimes of leather, usually of cloth. Nero had an octagon tent of great beauty. The Oriental tents were of silk, and gorgeously furnished. That of Attila was very spacious and magnificent. Alexander placed 200 persons in one pavilion. 2. (Photography.) An instrument for fieldpho-to