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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 20 0 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.) 12 0 Browse Search
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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 10 0 Browse Search
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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 10 0 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.) 8 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.) 8 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 8 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 6 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
re, however, known before Ctesibus, but it is probable that he applied toothed wheels to them. They were introduced into Rome by P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica, 157 B. C. The orators in Rome, in the time of Pompey, were limited to a certain time: as Cicero says, latrare ad clepsydram. It is supposed that among the Romans they consisted of a vessel from which the water issued drop by drop, falling into another vessel in which a rising float indicated against a graduated index the lapse of time. I, sand being substituted for water, and under a gag or five-minute rule, the running out of the sand shut up the mouth of an orator who was disagreeable to the majority. The friends of Cataline, we may suppose, failed to enforce the rule against Cicero, whose friends moved for a suspension of the rules, and so we have Quousque tandem abutere, etc., the delight of compositors, and the horror of dull school-boys. In the instrument of Ctesibus, 2, 3, Fig. 1321, the device for the measurement of
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
s the fitness of the sand at the mouth of the river Belus for the manufacture of glass. Lucretius termed it vilrum. Cicero mentions glass, linen, and paper as the common articles of Egyptian merchandise. Scaurus, 58 B. C., introduced it in tlestial globe of Billarus was taken away from Sinope by Lucullus (Strabo). The same writer mentions the sphere of Crates; Cicero that of Archimedes. Perhaps this was a planetarium. The planisphere of Dendera in Egypt is a circular diagram of the Strabo informs us that mills were driven by water in the period of Mithridates of Pontus, the contemporary of Caesar and Cicero. Such mills were driven by the current of the Tiber a little before the time of Augustus. It is not certain that these ced from Greece by one Paulo, and were used for grinding grain, if we may credit Pomponius Sabinus. Antipater, time of Cicero, refers distinctly to the use of water-mills in an epigram: — Cease now your work, ye maids, ye who labored in the mil
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
— Hebrew22Ethiopic202 Chaldaic22Chinese214 Syriac22Japanese73 Samaritan22Dutch26 Phoenician22Spanish27 Armenian38Irish18 Arabic28Anglo-Saxon25 Persian32Danish28 Turkish33Gothic25 Georgian38French28 Coptic32German26 Greek24Welch4 Latin25Russian35 Sanscrit328 The letter J was introduced into the alphabets by Giles Beye, a printer of Paris, 1660. Short-hand writing was known to the Greeks and Romans. Its invention was ascribed to Xenophon. It was introduced into Rome by Cicero. Pliny employed a short-hand amanuensis. The Chinese dictionary shows 43,496 words: of these 13,000 are irrelevant, and consist of signs which are ill-formed and obsolete. For ordinary use 4,000 signs suffice. Kung-fu-tze can be read with a knowledge of 2,500. There are 214 root-signs, so to speak, which indicate the pronunciation, and form keys or radicals, called by the Chinese tribunals. Each character is a word, and the actual number is vastly increased by tones which give quite a
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), Q. (search)
on the tropic, for a vertical gnomon at noon on the summer solstice cast no shadow. Alexandria was observed to be distant from the zenith by a fiftieth part of the circumference, and the measured distance between these two cities, which were in the same longitude, was found to be 5,000 stadia. This gave a circumference of 250,000 stadia to the earth, and a radius of about 40,000. This differed considerably from the opinion of Aristotle, and slightly from that of Posidonius, the friend of Cicero. The length of the stadium used was 202 3/4 yards. See armil; astronomical instruments. Under the Khalif al Maimun, a measurement of two degrees of the meridian was made in the plain of Sind-jar, in Mesopotamia (elsewhere stated to have been on the shore of the Red Sea). The Arabian astronomers divided themselves into two bands, one proceeding north and the other south, applying their measuring-rods to the ground till each reached a point distant one degree from the starting-point. The
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
（Weapon.) A sword having a curved blade, specially adapted for cutting. Three kinds are in general use in the armies of Europe and America. That for heavy cavalry has a slightly curved, heavy blade. The light-cavalry saber has a lighter blade somewhat more curved. The horse-artillery saber is still shorter, lighter, and more curved, and has but one branch to the guard. Sa-bot′. 1. A wooden shoe made of one piece hollowed out by boring-tools and scrapers. We learn from Cicero that parricides at Rome were fitted with a pair of wooden shoes before they were sewn up in the sack in which they were drowned. Sabots are cherished by the whole Gallic race, and might be used with advantage by other people for occasional protection on sloppy pavements and on wet ground, while about the duties of the kitchen, laundry, and kitchen-garden. Sabots in France are divided into the gros and the fins: the former being course and sold at 14 cents per pair; and the latter at 40
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
The flexible discharge-tubes K K belonging to each cask coalesce in a single tube. An adjusting-ball B′ is provided for graduating the preponderance of the ends of the box, to adapt the meter for liquids of different gravities. See also Fig. 2973. Wa′ter-mill. Water-mills were probably invented in Asia. One is described near one of the palaces of Mithridates of Pontus, 70 B. C. See grinding-mill. Strabo speaks of one on the Tiber, 70 B. C. Antipater, the contemporary of Cicero, alludes to one in an epigram. Vitruvius, 50 B. C., describes their construction as similar to the tympanum, with circumferential floats or paddles which were acted upon by the force of the stream, driving the wheel round. On the axis of the water-wheel was another wheel with cogs, which meshed into the cogs of a horizontal wheel, on the upper head of whose axis was a tenon inserted in the millstone. Pliny refers to water-mills (died A. D. 79). Public water-mills were established i