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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 2 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
as a motor for time-pieces was invented by the Germans, and was rendered necessary to confer portability upon the invention. It was first placed on the arbor of the great wheel and a supplementary spring opposed the former during the first part of its unwinding. This was intended to counteract the inequality. The fusee was afterwards introduced. A watch with a fusee, made in 1525, by Lech, of Prague, was in London a few years back. Musical or chiming clocks were invented in Germany. Burney notices them as early as 1580. In 1544, the corporation of master clock-makers of Paris obtained a statute from Francis I., forbidding non-admitted persons to make clocks, watches, or alarums, large or small. Benjamin Franklin's clock is noted as being the simplest on record. It shows the hours, minutes, and seconds, and yet contains but three wheels and two pinions in the whole movement. The lowest wheel has 160 teeth, and makes one revolution in four hours. It carries the hand on
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
er between the strings and the jacks. Tarquin of Paris first substituted buff leather for the quills in 1768. Schobert had a double tier of strings with additional sounding-board. Wieglet introduced metallic tongues in 1724; Silbermann, a mechanism like the clavichord to strike the string at its midlength, by which the harmonic sounds were heard at the same time the whole string was sounded. Stein invented the vis-a-vis, or double harpsichord, which was played by a performer at each end. Burney refers to a transposing harpsichord of 1760: By drawing out the keys the hammers are transferred to different strings, by which means a composition is transposed half a note, a whole note, or a flat third lower at pleasure. In 1730 Harris took an English patent for his harpsichord, with two sets of strings, on which may be played either one unison or two; or two unisons and an octave together, and the Fortes and the Pianos, etc. Plenius, in 1741, also refers to the forte and piano capacity