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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 19 9 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 6 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 6 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 4 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 4 0 Browse Search
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) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
the following year, in repeating Franklin's experiment, was killed by a stroke of lightning. Charles Marshall, in 1753, proposed insulated wires, suspended by poles, as electrical conductors for transmitting messages. Lesarge, in 1774, used twenty-four electrized wires and a pith-ball electrometer as a mode of signaling. Lomond, in 1787, used one wire and a pith-ball. Reizen, in 1794, had twenty-six line wires and letters in tin-foil which were rendered visible by electricity. Cavallo, in 1795, had one wire, and talked by sparks. He had an explosion of gas for an alarm. 2. (Surgical.) A grooved staff for directing a penetrating instrument in surgical operations; such as the forceps in extracting balls; lithontriptic instruments, etc. Conduit. （Hydraulic Engineering.) A pipe or passage, usually covered, for conducting water. Conduit of the Pont du Gard. Cone. The ventplug which is screwed into the barrel of a fire-arm (A, Fig. 1424). The outer end
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
f each wire having a pith-ball electroscope attached. Lamond, in 1787, employed a single wire, employing an electrical machine and electroscope in each of two rooms, and thus talking with Madame Lamond by the peculiar movements of the pith-balls according to an agreed code; and Reusser, in 1794, proposed the employment of letters formed by spaces cut out of parallel strips of tin-foil pasted on sheets of glass, which would appear luminous on the passage of the electric spark. In 1795, Cavallo proposed to transmit letters and numbers by a combination of sparks and pauses. Don Silva, in Spain, appears to have previously suggested a similar process. See electrical apparatus. In 1816, Mr. Ronalds experimented with a frictional electricity telegraph at Hammersmith. The current had to pass through eight miles of wire, and the signals were made by means of light pith-balls. The reading was effected by dials at each station having a synchronous movement derived from clockwork.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
ion that contains no nitrate of silver being as transparent as if the dark places were solid wires or metallic plates placed in the focus of the eye-glass. See Pearson's Practical astronomy, Vol. II.: Brewster's Philosophical instruments. Cavallo's micrometer is a small, semi-transparent scale of mother-of-pearl, about 1/20 of an inch broad and divided by finely ruled lines. It is situated within the tube, at the focus of the eye-lens of the telescope, with its divided edge in convenien A lateral passage where a shaft intersects a seam of coal. Moth′er-lye. The liquid remaining after all the salts that will regularly crystallize have been extracted from a solution. Moth′er-of-pearl mi-crom′e-ter. The micrometer of Cavallo. A thin semi-transparent slip of mother-of-pearl, 1/20 of an inch wide, is ruled with fine graduations, and mounted within the tube at the focus of the eye-lens of the telescope, where the image of the object is formed. The divided edge is bro<