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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
he method discovered the longitude to a degree of sixty geographical miles, £ 15,000 if to forty miles, £ 20,000 if to thirty miles, to be determined by a voyage from England to some port in America. John Harrison, born in 1693 at Faulby, near Pontefract, in England, undertook the task, and succeeded after repeated attempts, covering the period 1728 – 1761. His first timepiece was made in 1735; the second in 1739; the third in 1749; the fourth in 1755, the year of the great earthquake at Lisbon. In 1758 his instrument was sent in a king's ship to Jamaica, which it reached 5″ slow. On the return to Portsmouth, after a five months absence, it was 1′ 5″ wrong, showing an error of eighteen miles and within the limits of the act. He received the reward of forty years diligence in instalments. He died in 1776. Chronometer. Arnold made many improvements, and received government rewards amounting to £ 3,000. Mr. Denison states that Earnshaw brought the chronometer to its pr
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ppi was made in 1840 by the skill and patience of the painter Banvard, who floated down the river and took the sketches of prominent points and expressive features of the riverbanks. It gave rise to a host of similar productions : oceans and river routes, pilgrims' progresses, paradises lost, funerals of Napoleon, moral, immoral, and temperance serials, trades, arts, politics, overland routes to India, emigration to Australia and New Zealand, and, to cap the climax, a cyclorama of the great Lisbon earthquake, which happened about one hundred years previously. Pan-o-ram′ic Cam′e-ra. （Photography.) One in which pictures may be taken on one flat plate, including an angle of 90°, more or less, as required, without introducing defects due to oblique pencils of light. Invented by Sutton. The lens-tube is turned about its axis and directed in succession to the different portions of the field, the dark slide moves with it and presents the proper portion of the sensitized plate oppos
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
ngland24.4 Liverpool, England34.5 Manchester, England36.2 Bath, England30.0 Truro, England44.0 Cambridge, England24.9 York, England23 Borrowdale, England141.54 Dublin, Ireland29.1 Cork, Ireland40.2 Limerick, Ireland35 Armagh, Ireland36.12 Aberdeen, Scotland28.87 Glasgow, Scotland21.33 Bergen, Norway88.61 Stockholm20.4 Copenhagen18.35 Berlin23.56 Mannheim22.47 Prague14.1 Cracow13.3 Brussels28.06 Paris22.64 Geneva31.07 Milan38.01 Rome30.86 Naples29.64 Marseilles23.4 Lisbon27.1 Coimbra Port118.8 Bordeaux34.00 Algiers36.99 St Petersburg17.3 Simpheropol, Crimea14.83 Kutais (E shore of Black Sea）59.44 Bakou (S of Caspian)13.38 Ekatherinburg, Ural Mts.14.76 Barnaoul, Siberia11.80 Pekin, China26.93 Canton, China69.30 Singapore, Malacca97 Sierra Leone, Africa86.2 Uttray Mullay, India267.2 Madras, India44.6 Calcutta, India76.4 Cherrapoonjee, India592 Khasia, India610 Raised up-on′. （Shipbuilding.) Having the upper works hightened; the op<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
ch waves, each of increasing force, and an hour and a half after their commencement the waves still ran to a hight of forty feet above their usual level. At Iquique, a single wave some 50 feet in hight, after submerging an island lying in front of the town, and rushing far inland, soon resumed its usual condition. Similar effects have been frequently noted in connection with earthquakes. Among the most remarkable was that which occurred at the great earthquake in 1755, so destructive at Lisbon, where an immense wall of water many feet in hight was observed to come rolling inward from the Atlantic, breaking with irresistible force upon the shore and carrying every thing before it. The frequent earthquakes which have devastated the Pacific coast of South America, lying at the base of the Peruvian and Chilian Andes, have been accompanied by the same phenomenon. These waves, far exceeding in hight the ordinary waves of the sea, and still more the great tidal wave which twice each day