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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
han the space to be filled. white metal alloys. Copper.Tin.Zinc.Lead.Antimony.Arsenic.Bismuth.Nickel.Brass. Speculum Metal11 Speculum Metal621 Speculum Metal743 Pewter6112216 Pewter41 Hard Pewter419216 Best Pewter10017 Pewterer's Temper 12 Pot Metal (used also for fauects)106 – 81 Shot Metal56 Cowper's alloy for turning in the rose engine for subsequent printing as letter press21 Biddery Ware1621284 Britannia Metal112 Britannia Metal (another formula)4444 Britannia Metal (Lardner's)8392288 Britannia Metal (Overman）38817Steel. German Tutania1484 Spanish Tutania2421 Queen's Metal9111Cadmium. Queen's Metal (another formula)410081 Parisian White Metal69.85.519.84.7 Common Albata or German Silver20163 – 4 Best Albata or German Silver208 – 10Iron.5 – 6 White Copper or Tutenag503119 Packfong (Chinese）40.425.42.631.6 Packfong (more malleable)577 Packfong53.391317.48 German Silver (finest quality)121 German Silver (for rolling)206025 German Silver (for ca
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
Used for polishing steel, etc. The name is derived from Bristol, England, near which city they are made. Brisure. （Fortification.) A break in the general direction of the parapet of the curtain, when constructed with orillons and retired flanks. Brit-annia-met′al. A white-metal alloy, resembling silver in some degree, and used for making table-ware, etc. There are several formulas for compounding this white alloy for table-ware:— Copper.Tin.Antimony.Bismuth.Brass.Zinc. Lardner's8392288 Overman's38871 Another112 Another4444 Another210028 See ante, White-Metal Alloys, p. 63. Brit′ish-gum. An adhesive material, used by calico-printers, and made by scorching potato-starch. Britz′ska. （Vehicle.) A Russian carriage, having a calash top and interior arrangements adapted for use as a couch on long journeys. Broaches. Broach. 1. A tapering steel tool, of prismatic form, and whose edges are used for reaming out holes. It is particularl
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
, the wheels to which these dials are attached act upon each other in an order, determined by the original adjustment. Each dial has on its edges the set of digits from 0 to 9. There are axes upon which the dials revolve; teeth to the wheels behind the dials; bolts which act on or into these teeth; wedges to withdraw the bolts; and shoulders which regulate the action of the bolts on the teeth-wheels; all this determines the process of addition. When it is understood that the skillful Dr. Lardner occupied twenty-five pages in the Edinburgh Review in partially describing the complex action of the machine, and gave up other features as hopeless without a mass of illustrative diagrams, we shall be pardoned for not occupying space by attempting farther description. Harper's Magazine, Vol. XXX. pp. 34-39, gives some account of it, accompanied by a cut. G. and E. Scheutz, Swedish engineers, constructed a working machine, 1837-43, after studying the Babbage machine; it was brought
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The lost arts (1838). (search)
merely attempts to imitate it. He thought they had proved the proposition; they certainly had elaborated it. In Pompeii, a dozen miles south of Naples, which was covered with ashes by Vesuvius eighteen hundred years ago, they broke into a room full of glass: there was ground-glass, window-glass, cut-glass, and colored glass of every variety. It was undoubtedly a glass-maker's factory. So the lie and the refutation came face to face. It was like a pamphlet printed in London, in 1836, by Dr. Lardner, which proved that a steamboat could not cross the ocean; and the book came to this country in the first steamboat that came across the Atlantic. The chemistry of the most ancient period had reached a point which we have never even approached, and which we in vain struggle to reach to-day. Indeed, the whole management of the effect of light on glass is still a matter of profound study. The first two stories which, I have to offer you are simply stories from history. The first is f
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 19: the Tribune continues. (search)
nd there, when something of interest respecting its editor catches our eye. Greeley and McElrath, we observe, are engaged, somewhat extensively, in the business of publishing books. The Whig almanac appears every year, and sells from fifteen to twenty thousand copies. It contains statistics without end, and much literature of what may be called the Franklin School—short, practical articles on agriculture, economy, and morals. Travels on the Prairies, Ellsworth's Agricultural Geology, Lardner's lectures, Life and speeches of Henry Clay, Tracts on the Tariff by Horace Greeley, The farmers' library, are among the works published by Greeley and McElrath in the years 1843 and 1844. The business was not profitable, I believe, and gradually the firm relinquished all their publications, except only the Tribune and Almanac. September 1st, 1843, the Evening Tribune began; the Semi-Weekly, May 17th, 1845. Carlyle's Past and Present, one of the three or four Great Books of the present
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
as appointed to succeed him. The Eastern Gulf Squadron extended from Cape Canaveral on the eastern coast of Florida, to Pensacola. Its headquarters were at Key West. McKean remained in command until June 4, 1862, when he was relieved by Captain Lardner. Lardner was soon followed by Commodore Theodorus Bailey, who retained the command two years, and whose health finally broke down, as did that of many of his officers, upon this undesirable station. After a short interval, Commodore CornelLardner was soon followed by Commodore Theodorus Bailey, who retained the command two years, and whose health finally broke down, as did that of many of his officers, upon this undesirable station. After a short interval, Commodore Cornelius K. Stribling assumed the command on the 12th of October, and retained it until the close of the war. The blockade of Florida required a different management from that of other parts of the coast. There were no large commercial centres which might influence the destination of steamers with valuable cargoes; nor were there any points whose position, by giving ready access to the interior, made it indispensable that they should be strongly intrenched. Hence the main force of the blockade
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
and the Cuyler, which had been sent in pursuit of the Florida after her escape from Mobile, were among the vessels appropriated in this way; and Farragut was led to express himself strongly on the subject, and to suggest that if any of Wilkes's ships came into his neighborhood, he should adopt a similar line of action. But the fatal mistake made by Wilkes was in detaining the Vanderbilt; and in consequence of this and other causes of dissatisfaction, he was relieved in June, 1863, by Commodore Lardner. After the Alabama had reached the West Indies, in November, 1862, it was foreseen that she could not remain long in that quarter; and the Vanderbilt, one of the fastest steamers in the navy, was fitted out to cruise under Commander Baldwin, with a roving commission, in the direction it was supposed she would take. The orders of the Department to Baldwin, dated January 27, 1863, when the Alabama was on her way to her cruising ground near the equator, show with what remarkable fores
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
the, 111 Huntsville, the, 122, 136 ironclads at the outbreak of the war, 2 Iroquois, the, 11; chases Sumter, 175 Isherwood, B. F., Engineer-in-Chief, 49 Jamestown, the, 64, 66, 77 Jones, Lieutenant, Catesby, commands Merrimac, 68 Kearsarge, the, 205; armament of, 206; fights Alabama, 207 et seq. Keystone State, blockades Norfolk, 35; attacked by rams, 110 Key West, blockaded, 35, 83 Kittredge, Acting--Lieutenant, commands expedition to Corpus Christi, 142 Lardner, Captain, 123 Lee, Acting Rear-Admiral, commands South Atlantic Squadron, 90 Lee, R. E., the, 156 McCauley, Commodore, 49, 51; destroys vessels at Hampton Roads, 51 et seq. McKean, Flag Officer, Wm. W., relieves Commodore Mervine, 123 Maffitt, Captain, 137 et seq.; commands the Florida, 184 Mallory, Confederate Secretary of Navy, 22 Manassas, the, 129 Maps, the Blockaded Coast, 36; Hampton Roads, 50; entrances to Cape Fear River, 92; entrances to Charleston Harbor, 106; pas
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our subscribers. (search)
nominate State officers, to be held September 10th, in Worcester. Court martial of Col. Miles. Alexandria, Aug. 15 --The trial by court martial of Colonel Miles, charged with unofficer-like conduct on Centreville Heights, on the day of the battle of Bull Bun, is still progressing, the court being held in the City Council Chamber. The witnesses on the part of the prosecution are not more than half through. The counsel for Colonel Richardson, the complainant, is Lieutenant Colonel Lardner, of Detroit, and for Col. Miles, Reverdy Johnson, of Baltimore. Affairs at Alexandria. Alexandria, August 16 --In consequence of the increased shipment of stock over the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad, the cars belonging to that company and in use here by the Government have been returned. Lieut. Gibson, aid to Gen. Franklin, while out with a scouting party to-day and when about a mile beyond Bailey's Cross Roads, was fired upon-by a man concealed in the wood
The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], An account of Fort Chene. (search)
ne himself a sojourner for pleasure at a fashionable watering-place, where his physician insisted upon regular hours and diet, and plenty of active exercise. It is a noticeable fact that many of the soldiers at this place find it impossible to button the jackets that fitted them so easily before they left the city. The bathing and fishing is unexcelled. Capt. John Rareshide, with Lieuts. H. L. Blow and Henry and Edward Rareshide, have effected great things at this post, and their efforts have been heartily met by the co-operation of Sergeants Taylor, Harsey, Savage, Lardner and Winue, and every man of the command. The strictest discipline is maintained and cheerfully accorded by the volunteers, who have but to know a wish of their officers to execute it. The drill, police management, and every camp duty is fully up to the regular standard, and if the enemy ever do accord the Perseverance boys such a favor as to call upon them, we think they will soon wish they were in Dixie.
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