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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Curtis, William Eleroy 1850- (search)
Curtis, William Eleroy 1850- Author; born in Akron, O., Nov. 5, 1850; graduated at Western Reserve College in 1871; was special commissioner from the United States to the Central and South American republics; executive officer of the International American Conference; director of the Bureau of American Republics; and special envoy to the Queen Regent of Spain and to Pope Leo XIII., in 1892. His publications include The United States and foreign powers.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Engineering. (search)
otion, and of the reduplication of parts. The steam-engine is a machine of reciprocating, converted into rotary, motion by the crank. The progress of mechanical engineering during the nineteenth century is measured by the improvements of the steam-engine, principally in the direction of saving fuel, by the invention of internal combustion or gas-engines, the application of electrical transmission, and, latest, the practical development of steam turbines by Parsons, Westinghouse, Delaval, Curtis, and others. In these a jet of steam impinges upon buckets set upon the circumference of a wheel. Their advantages are that their motion is rotary and not reciprocal. They can develop speed of from 5,000 to 30,000 revolutions per minute, while the highest ever attained by a reciprocating engine is not over 1,000. Their thermodynamic losses are less, hence they consume less steam and less fuel. Duplication of parts has lowered the cost of all products. Clothing is one of these. The p
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White, Trumbull 1868- (search)
White, Trumbull 1868- Journalist; born in Winterset, Ia., Aug. 12, 1868; received a collegiate education; was engaged in journalism, principally on Chicago daily papers, in 1889-94; travelled in Europe and Mexico in 1894-96; accompanied the Cuban and Porto Rico expeditions in charge of the Chicago Record's news service; visited Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, and Australia in 1897-98 for the same paper; and later was its correspondent in Russia. He is the author of Wizard of Wall Street; Free silver in Mexico (with William E. Curtis); Our War with Spain; Our New possessions; Through darkest America, etc.