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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
Penguin, a monk of the monastery of Hautvilliers (died in 1715), seems to have been the inventor of sparkling champagne. The wine of the country had been celebrated for centuries, but the old Benedictine discovered the art of making it effervescent, and secured it by a cork and string. Masteroman's corking-machine. Cork-fast′en-er. See bottle-stopper. Cork-jack′et. A jacket lined with cork for the purpose of sustaining the wearer on the surface of the water. The Roman whom Camillus sent to the capitol when besieged by the Gauls is reported to have supported himself by a cork-jacket as he swam the Tiber with his clothes on his head. Cork-ma-chine′. Corks are made by hand and by machinery. The former readily but slowly produces the perfectly shaped, somewhat tapering cork; the latter process produced a cleanly cut cork, usually of cylindrical form, the tapering form being afterwards given by pressure. In hand-making, the workman, with a sharp knife in his hand, <
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
ets, rafts, floats, and, in some cases, the general furniture and even doors of the cabins are specially made to subserve the purpose. Life-mattress. In Fig. 2929, two mattresses filled with cork have between them an air-bag, confined in a fibrous sack to prevent rupture, the whole forming an elastic bed, which may be separated into several distinct lifepreservers in accidents on water. Life-preservers of cork date back to the time of the early Romans. The Roman messenger sent by Camillus to the Capitol, when besieged, swam the Tiber with a cork-jacket. The bamboo habit, or Chinese lifepreserver, consists of four pieces of bamboo, about a man's length, placed at right angles in parallel pairs, and tied firmly at the four corners, leaving an opening for the body. so that one pair of bamboos rests beneath the armpits. Captain Manby's apparatus is used in England to communicate with stranded or shipwrecked vessels. A shot thrown by a mortar has a line attached to it, an