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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
he frenum is being cut. 2. (Glove-making.) The forked piece between two adjacent fingers of a glove, uniting the portions of the back and inside of the finger. Fougette. Four′dri-nier — ma-chine′. A paper-making machine, the first to make a continuous web. It was invented by Louis Robert, of Essonne, and patented by him in France. He experienced some pecuniary difficulties, and sold the right to M. Leger-Didot. The latter came to England and made arrangements for working it. A Mr. Gamble and the brothers Fourdrinier improved it, and made a valuable machine which was pirated, and bankrupted the gentlemen whose name is imperishably associated with it. The enterprise is the glory of the mechanical genius, and the disgrace of the law lords and law courts of the tight little island. The machine was perfected by Bryan Donkin, John Wilks, and others not known to fame. The essential features of the machine are: — 1. A stream of paper pulp flowing on to the surface of an
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
odel to England, where, in fact, the invention was first brought into practical working form. Gamble, in 1801, obtained a patent for a machine similar to that of Robert, but the credit of introduci1803; and in the succeeding year, Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier purchased the patents of Didot and Gamble. These gentlemen may be considered as the great introducers of machine-made paper, and, like maobert for his invention, and leave granted him to take his working model to England. 1801. John Gamble, an Englishman, who had accompanied L. Didot from Paris with Robert's machine, obtained a pat the original. 1804. Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier of London purchased the patents of Didot and Gamble. From the improvements made under their auspices and their manufacture of it on an extensive scarthenware-vessels from which the air was excluded. This as subsequently improved by Doukin and Gamble forms the basis upon which the more recent processes of preserving foods by canning are founded.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
08.69°30 1/2 inches.212.79° 28 1/2 inches.209.55°31 inches.213.57° 29 inches.210.38° Salinometer. Salinometer. Salinometer. An ordinary form of marine salinometer is a graduated glass tube, whose bottom swells into two bulbs, the lower the smaller, and containing shot, to cause the instrument to float vertically. The greater the degree of saturation, the heavier the liquid, and the consequent hight of the graduated stem relatively to the water's surface. The water-chamber of Gamble's salinometer (Fig. 4550) is connected to the boiler, so as to give a constant indication of the degree of saturation, and contains a thermometer for showing the temperature of the water in the boiler. The case has a glass face, through which the salinometer can be seen, and the bulb has a horizontal line, whose coincidence with one of the graduations at the side of the case shows the proportion of salt contained in the water, as 1 32, 2 32, etc.; intermediate proportions may be estimated b
The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
d the knife in his back. He and another small darkey positively identifies Nat.Per contra, the latter protested he never had a knife in his possession on Saturday night. Afterwards three witnesses were introduced, who proved that since the stabbing, John Gamble, a free boy known to have been with Nat's party, had been to the hotel, shown a bowie-knife, and proclaimed himself the offender. The case was continued, and the police were directed to search for John Gamble. Nat, was sent to jail. d the knife in his back. He and another small darkey positively identifies Nat.Per contra, the latter protested he never had a knife in his possession on Saturday night. Afterwards three witnesses were introduced, who proved that since the stabbing, John Gamble, a free boy known to have been with Nat's party, had been to the hotel, shown a bowie-knife, and proclaimed himself the offender. The case was continued, and the police were directed to search for John Gamble. Nat, was sent to jail.
The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
matters were before the Mayor yesterday: Alexander Davis and Lewis Davis, two white boys, were charged with stealing two shoe uppers from M. P. Shannon. It appeared that Shannon, having missed the goods from his shop, near the Lancastrian School, suspected the accused and charged them with the theft, when they admitted their guilt, and promised to return the stolen goods, but only returned one pair of the uppers. The case was continued for additional witnesses. Sam, slave of John Gamble, was ordered to be whipped and sent to the batteries for breaking into the lime kill near the penitentiary and stealing a lot of cooking utensils, &c, from Patrick Bolton. Of the stolen articles a frying pan and a tine cup were found in the negro's possession. Frederick, slave of Mrs. Bontware, was committed as a runaway. Marin Lucas was charged with striking Wm. E. King with a brick. This appearing to be only a fight among some children, the Mayor dismissed the case. The
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
stealing it. Powell stated that he was acquainted with the accused; had been drinking with him pretty freely, and had no suspicions of his intention to rob him. The Mayor declined sending the accused on for further examination, but directed that he should be taken to the Provost-Marshal, to be forwarded to the ship to which he was attached. The same disposition was made of the case against James A. Cain, charged with fighting in the eating house of Mrs. Dollard. Samuel, slave of John Gamble, and Dick Walker, slave of Michael Hart were charged with breaking into Thomas Kennedy's house, on the canal bank, and stealing therefrom three hundred dollars' worth of wearing apparel and crockery ware. After an examination of a couple of witnesses, whose testimony failed to prove any material fact, the case was continued till Monday next. John Forrester, a free negro, charged with forging W. R. Winn's signature to a pass, for the purpose of obtaining a passport to leave the city,
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], Five Hundred Dollars reward. (search)
lot of corn and some half-picked chickens were also found. Three flashy mulatto girls, named Catherine, slave of Ann Fox; Fanny, slave of Harry Wyatt; and Emma, slave of Kitty Yarrington; charged with riotous conduct and drunkenness in the street, were ordered ten lashes each. When the Mayor announced his decision they all three burst into tears, and for some time their weeping and wailing excited the attention of the spectators present. The continued case against Sam, slave of John Gamble, and Dick, slave of Michael Hart, charged with breaking into the house of Thomas Kennedy, in the night time, and stealing three hundred dollars' worth of wearing apparel and crockery ware, was taken up, when, the evidence still being insufficient to warrant their conviction, they were discharged. Catherine, slave of Ann Anderson, was remanded for examination before the Hustings Court on the charge of receiving one barrel of flour, six hundred pounds of corned beef and a turkey, which