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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 10 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 8 0 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2 5 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 5 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
and ornamented by machinery, comprising trimming laces of every description, veils, falls, scarfs, shawls, lappets, curtains, etc. The dates of some of the inventions connected with lace-making are as follows: — Bobbin-lace invented by Barbara Huttman of St. Annaberg, Germany1561. Pillow-lace making taught at Gt. Marlow, England1626. Strutt's machine for making open work stockings1758. Crane's Vandyke machine1758. Else and Harvey's pin machine1770. Frost's point-net machine1777. Dawson's point-net machine1791. Heathcoat's bobbin-net machine1801. Hill's plain ground net machine1816. Limerick lace made1829. Laced-stocking. A bandage support for varicose veins, weak legs, etc. Lace-mak′ing ma-chine′. Lace is a delicate kind of network composed of silk, flax, or cotton threads, twisted or plaited together. See lace. The meshes are of an hexagonal figure, in which thick threads are also interwoven to form the pattern, according to some design; and these t<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
the point of greatest submergence, and horizontal at the point of greatest elevation. The change of position is accomplished by the oscillation of the axis of the float, by means of rods, cranks, and an eccentric wheel on the paddle-shaft. b. Dawson's feathering paddle-wheel (A, Fig. 3476), 1814, has floats attached to radial rods which rotate on their axes so as to enter and leave the water obliquely, but present their full surfaces squarely at the point of greatest immersion. The change idid in fact. The old stiff tongue fourteen feet long. and the spans hitched up two or three paces apart, remind one of the practice not yet quite exploded in England, of hitching three horses, tandem fashion, to a plow, which was universal till Dawson of Frogden, Scotland, about 1770, showed how to place them abreast, for which the British farmers owe him a debt of gratitude, and after trying it fifty years to make sure it was all right, are prepared to pay on demand. At the latter end of t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
of a solution composed of one ounce of Chian turpentine in two ounces of tincture of benzoin is then to be applied to the other side of the silk and allowed to dry. Stiff-bit. （Harness.) A bit without a joint, like a snaffle; or branches, like a curb-bit. It is a stiff bar with rings at the end as cheek-bars to keep the rings out of the horse's mouth. It is usually of round iron. Hale's driving-bit, September 10, 1867, is of round iron, and is covered with a rubber tube. Dawson's bit, September 24, 1867, has a bar of twisted wire with a soft rubber covering. Arnold's stiff-bit, August 7, 1866, is tubular. Metallic straps are passed around the bridle-rings and are screwed into the ends of the bit. Stiff′en-ing-gird′er. A truss girder which distributes the weight of the platform and load upon the suspension-chain and prevents undulations. Sti′fler. （Military Engineering.) A small mine made for the purpose of interrupting the operations of the ene
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
, and one half of them should proceed at each operation to the left and the other half to the right (a substitute being also provided for the cushion-pins), lace would be made exactly as on the cushions. See Popular science Monthly, March, 1874, Vol. XLVII., pages 540-542. Warp-ma-chine′. A lace-making machine having a thread for each needle employed; in contradistinction to the stocking-frame, which has but a single thread. This machine was invented about 1775; it was improved by Dawson in 1784, by the application of the rotary motion and the cam-wheels to move the guide-bars. Warp-machines were the first to produce ornamental patterns on lace, such as spots, bullet-holes, etc. The Jacquard apparatus was applied to the warpmachine by Draper in 1839. Warp-roll′er reel. （Knitting-machine.) A spool which holds the supply of yarn. Wash. The fermented wort of the distiller. The grain is ground and infused, forming a mash; the decanted liquor is a wort, which, <