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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 3 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 2 2 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 30, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
any event, and diverted aside into a receiver, into which it continues to run till the moment of noting another event, when the intercepting cause is suddenly removed and the stream turned to its original channel. The weight of mercury in the receiver in comparison with the known rate of passage determines the interval between the events. Clepsydra. Professor Airy, Astronomer Royal of England, has applied the clepsydra to communicating motion to telescopes equatorially mounted. Partington's clepsydra is constructed to discharge equal quantities of water in equal times. B is a float on the surface of the water, and E is a weight to counterbalance the weight of the siphon C, and its contained water. The water is discharged at F, the lower end of the long leg of the siphon, and is collected in the box G, which forms the base of the instrument. The Chinese clepsydras are described in the United States Agricultural Report, 1851, plate at the end of the book. The descriptio
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
r chamber if the grain does not require steaming; or it can be cut off entirely by the globe-valve h. The water of condensation is drawn off by the pipe i. Steam fire-en′gine. Mr. Braithwaite's fireengine, used in London, was described in Partington's British Cyclopedia, published in 1833. It is there described as a portable steam-engine, to move the pump-rod, the steam being prepared during the passage of the fire-engine to its destination. See fire-engine. Steam-foun′tain. A jety out of knowledge, although the writer has failed to find an illustration of it. Even the ordinary dictionaries recognize it, and it is described in Hebert's Engineer's Cyclopaedia, London, 1850, Vol. I. p. 109; Francis's Dictionary of Arts ; Partington's Dictionary, 2 vols.; Weale's Dictionary of terms in art The Nott stove was patented in England in 1830, 1831. It is a base-burning illuminated stove, without an internal fuelchamber. The Mott stove is shown at j, Fig. 5917, and had a s