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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Audiphone, (search)
Audiphone, An instrument to assist dulness of hearing, invented by R. G. Rhodes, of Chicago, and modified by M. Colladon, of Geneva, in 1880. It consists of a thin sheet of hard ebonite rubber or card-board, to be placed against the teeth, through which and other bones vibrations are conveyed to the auditory nerve.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (search)
arrived at 11.30 with Schurz's and Barlow's divisions of the l1th Corps, the latter of whom received a severe wound. Thus strengthened, the advantage of the battle was for some time on our side. The attacks of the rebels were vigorously repulsed by Wadsworth's division of the 1st Corps, and a large number of prisoners, including General Archer, were captured. At length, however, the continued reinforcement of the Confederates from the main body in the neighborhood, and by the divisions of Rhodes and Early, coming down by separate lines from Heidlersberg and taking post on our extreme right, turned the fortunes on the day. Our army, after contesting the ground for five hours, was obliged to yield to the enemy, whose force outnumbered them two to one; and towards the close of the afternoon General Howard deemed it prudent to withdraw the two corps to the heights where we are now assembled. The greater part of the 1st Corps passed through the outskirts of the town, and reached the hil
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navigation acts. (search)
elopment of proper structural devices was of slower progress. As early as 1823 Captain de Montgery, of the French navy, published a valuable work entitled Memoire sur les Navires en Fer, in the form of papers in the Annales de l'industrie Nationale et Étrangere, which were subsequently reprinted in a small book in 1824. Captain Montgery introduced his work with the remark that one might, perhaps, trace the origin of iron vessels to an invention of Demetrius Poliorcetes when he was besieging Rhodes, 304 years before the present era. After some other interesting historical researches, Captain Montgery pointed out that the chief obstacle to successful shipbuilding in iron at that time (1823-24) was due to the lack of suitable machinery for working and shaping the material. This, he said, could not be done by hand as in the case of wooden ships, and he left the matter of inventing or adapting the necessary mechanical appliances for metal construction to the skill of practical shipbuil