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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 26 6 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 18 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 14 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 11 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 2 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 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. 3 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 3 Browse Search
John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer 2 2 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
18153524.434.118315851.684.6 18163527.438.618325952.6101.1 18173531.549.518335655.4100.3 18183630.246.818345256.9108.1 18194031.347.618355156.9109.1 18204634.149.118366155.4101.6 18214533.650.918375855.9103.8 18225234.450.618386158.0100.2 18235233.650.018395265.492.6 18244933.751.818405464.397.2 18255638.154.018415665.1121.3 18265133.353.818424964.0127.9 Wolf's combined double-cylinder engine, cut off at onetenth stroke. United mines at Gwennap. 18275138.271.0 Wolf's and Grose's improvements.18433671.4114.4 The following table, compiled by S. Hughes, C. E., gives the duty of a number of pumping-engines in different large cities on each side of the Atlantic: — Duty of Condensing Pumping-Engines. Millions of lbs. raised 1 ft. high by 112 lbs. of coal. East London Water-Works, single-acting Cornish engine, 1836105.7 East London Water-Works, Boulton and Watt46.6 Haarlem Mere, Holland89.4 Average of 36 Cornish engines, 184371.5 Cincinnati direct-action53
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e. It yet yields a shrill sound when blown into. Several whistles made of the eye-teeth of dogs, with holes drilled near the roots, have been found in the cave of Lombrive, Department of Ariege. These are contemporary with the remains of the rhinoceros, reindeer, mammoth, hyena, bear, and cavelion. A pipe with three finger-holes, made from a fragment of stag-horn, was found in the vicinity of Poitiers. An ivory whistle a foot long has been found in a British barrow. It is engraved in Grose. The railway-signal code of the United States is,— 1 whistle, down brakes. 2 whistles, off brakes. 3 whistles, back up. Continued whistles, danger. Rapid short whistles, cattlealarm. A sweeping parting of the hands on the level of the eye, go ahead Downward motion of the hands with extended arm, stop. 2. The steam-whistle was invented in 1826 by Adrian Stephens, Plymouth, England. It is attached to a pipe connected with the boiler. On turning a cock the steam e