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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jenks, Joseph -1683 (search)
Jenks, Joseph -1683 Inventor; born near London; came to America in 1645, and is supposed to have been the first brassfounder on this continent. On May 6, 1648, he secured a patent from the Massachusetts legislature for a water-mill and for a saw-mill. In 1652 he made the dies, it is said, for the silver coinage—the pine-tree money of that province. In 1654 he made a fire-engine for Boston, and in 1655 he received a patent for an improved method of manufacturing scythes. In 1667 he had an appropriation for the encouragement of wire-drawing. He died in Lynn, Mass., in 1683
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Temperance reform. (search)
was followed by temperance societies organized, one at Moreau, Saratoga co., N. Y., April 30, 1808; another at Greenfleld, N. Y., in 1809; and another at Hector, N. Y., April 3, 1818. The Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance was instituted at Boston, Feb. 5, 1813; but temperance reform as an organized movement began Feb. 13, 1826, when the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was organized at the Park Street Church, Boston, Mass. Drs. Justin Edwards, Woods, Jenks, and Wayland, and Messrs. John Tappan and S. V. S. Wilder were prominent in it. The following is the chronology of the chief events in the temperance movement in America: First women's temperance society organized in Ohio, close of......1828 New York State and Connecticut State temperance societies organized......1829 Congressional Temperance Society organized at Washington, D. C.......Feb. 26, 1833 First national temperance convention meets at Philadelphia; 440 delegates from
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
hot blast, in 1838, 1839, and succeeded in producing about two tons per day. The Pioneer furnace at Pottsville was blown July, 1839. The first iron-works in America were established near Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. In 1622, however, the works were destroyed, and the workmen, with their families, massacred by the Indians. The next attempt was at Lynn, Massachusetts, on the banks of the Saugus, in 1648. The ore used was the bog ore, still plentiful in that locality. At these works Joseph Jenks, a native of Hammersmith, England, in 1652, by order of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, coined silver shillings, sixpences, and threepences, known as the pine-tree coinage, from the device of a pine-tree on one face. Of the special processes for treating and purifying, a few may be cited:— Smelting by blast with charcoal, pit-coal, and coke, and with the addition of limestone or shells as a flux, have been noted. See supra; also blastfurnace. Puddling and boiling, somewhat
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
In other cases, as a means of assembling, as the key-ring, split-ring. Other applications are common and obvious. 2. A kind of handle for drawers, etc. It is hinged above, and falls into a groove when not in use, so as to be flush with the surface, a. Fig. 4331. Rings. 3. (Nautical.) The appendage by which the cable is attached to the anchor by means of the shackle on the end of the chain-cable, called the anchor-shackle. See anchor. Ring and Trav′el-er Spin′--ning-frame. Jenks's ring-spinner is a modern machine. It is employed, like the throstle, for spinning warpyarns; it makes a cop resembling that made by the mule, and, like the latter, its bobbin is adapted for the shuttle. The spindles are arranged vertically in the frame, and project through apertures in a horizontal bar. A flanged ridge around each aperture forms a ring, and affords a track for a little steel hoop called a traveler, which is sprung over the ring. The traveler guides the thread on to the s
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
58. 23,285BoyntonMar. 15, 1859. 24,027HookMay. 17, 1859. 24,061SpencerMay. 17, 1859. 24,973JenksAug. 2, 1859. 25,013HarrisonAug. 9, 1859. 25,262HarrisonAug. 26, 1859. 30,854HandieDec. 4, 186. 1. （e.) Loop-Taker operated by Needle. No.Name.Date. 12,923RobertsonMay 22, 1855. 18,285Jenks et al.Sept. 29, 1857. 18,350Nettleton et al.Oct. 6, 1857. 19,535SangsterMar. 2, 1858. 19,723S,236Lewis et al.July 14, 1863. 80,908CallenAug. 11, 1868. 110,267MoffittDec. 20, 1870. 114,442JenksMay 2, 1871. 115,124SmithMay 23, 1871. (Reissue.)4,571PalmerOct. 3, 1871. 122,858SheldenJa, 1861. 31,645MarshMar. 5, 1861. 31,878DownerApr. 2, 1861. 32,035WhitcombApr. 9, 1861. 32,519JenksJune 11, 1861. 32,710PaddockJuly 23, 1861. 35,972EnsignJuly 22, 1862. 37,505HenryJan. 27, 1863us, in 1648. The ore used was the bog ore, still plentiful in that locality. At these works Joseph Jenks, a native of Hammersmith, England, in 1652, by order of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, co