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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
sly and admirably treated in many excellent works. Its interest in a work of this character is not as an art, but as requiring machinery to hew and shape the stones, construct the foundations and the roof, and also calling for ingenuity in providing the building with its material accessories for safety, ventilation, warmth, light, and convenience. The following are dates assigned by some authorities for the buildings mentioned: — The Pyramids(about) B. C.1500 MemnoniumB. C.1350 Solomon's TempleB. C.1004 Birs Nimroud,B. C.900 Jupiter CapitolinusB. C.616 ParthenonB. C.438 PantheonA. D.13 ColiseumA. D.70 St. SophiaA. D.532 Mosque of Omar, at JerusalemA. D.637 Caves of ElloraA. D.700 St. Peter's, RomeA. D.1626 St. Paul's LondonA. D.1710 The tent is the original of the Chinese style. The cave is the original of the Egyptian. The log cabin suggested the Grecian. The avenue of trees the wondrous Gothic nave. The possession of iron and various facilities of
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
A brazen vessel in the basement below a stage, to imitate thunder. Bronze. 1. An alloy composed of copper and tin, sometimes with a little zinc and lead. The Big-Ben bell of Westminster, the largest bell in England, is composed of 22 parts copper, 2 parts tin. Gun-metal is a bronze, 9 parts copper, 1 of tin. It is probable that some of the ancient alloys which we read of as brass were really bronze. The Phoenicians brought tin from Cornwall 1100 B. C., before the building of Solomon's Temple. See brass. Tarshish was thy merchant [Tyre]; with silver, iron, tin, and lead they traded in thy fairs. The tin of Cornwall, and also probably that from the peninsula of Malacca, was mixed with the copper of the Wady Maghara to form the Egyptian, Phoenician, and Assyrian bronzes. Dr. Wilson (Prehistoric Man) supposes that tin was first brought to the Mediterranean from Malacca, and gave a new impetus to early Eastern civilization. Britain was the next source. Chili and Mexic
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
the lowest estimate, the brazen (bronze) sea of the temple court held over 9,000 gallons. The Chaldees broke it in pieces to remove it to Babylon, about 590 B. C. They estimated it only as so much metal; they carried the brass [bronze] of them to Babylon. This was a large vessel, and may well be believed of the time when works of art were estimated by their colossal proportions. The stones of Egypt and Baalbec are yet unrivalled in modern times. See stone-cutting. The doors of Solomon's Temple were of olive-tree wood, and on them were carved cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers. The carving was overlaid with gold. Other doors were of fir, similarly carved and plated. The doors of the temple of the Indian idol Somnauth were of sandal-wood elaborately carved. They were taken by Mahmoud of Ghizni, A. D. 1024, and were made the entrance-doors to his tomb in Afghanistan. They were retaken by the British in 1842, and the Governor-General, after a paean in their praise
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
of a pair of leaves, each swinging on its own pintle and forming a double door. When doors were made to fold, they were swung inward; in this case one valve was hinged to another and swung back against its principal, the latter having pivots which turned in the threshold and lintel. Such doors were known in ancient Greece. The doors of the residence of the Inca Huayna Capac, in the vicinity of Cotopaxi, were similar to those of the Egyptian temples. The doors of the oracle of Solomon's Temple were of olive-tree, and were a fifth part of the wall. As the width of the house was 20 cubits, the doorway was about 6 1/2 feet wide. The door was double. The outer door of the temple was of fir, and hung upon olive-tree posts. The doorway was about eight feet wide, and the double doors had each two leaves. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. It is not easy to find in any other very ancient author so clear a descript
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
ds of the arms and closing the points on the object to be lifted. They loose their hold upon the stone as soon as it is placed in position, and are therefore useful in laying submerged foundations and breakwaters, as the lewis would require the services of a diver to detach it. See lazy-Tong; snap-dragon. Tongs used by blacksmiths, etc. The ordinary fire-tongs f have one jointed leg, and do not require special description. Fire-tongs are mentioned as a part of the furniture of Solomon's Temple, 1004 B. C. They were made by Hiram Abiff. a, (Fig. 6510), lifting-tongs or dog.c, domestic fire-tongs. b, lazy-tongs.d, pipe-tongs. Multiple-jaw tongs. Adjustable-jaw tongs. Fig. 6511 shows various forms of tongs used by blacksmiths. a, h, flat-bit tongs; the jaws are flat, and a ring or coupler is placed upon the handles or reins to maintain the grip upon the work. b, angular-bit tongs; useful for holding round or square bars, and also bolts, the heads being placed
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 11 (search)
We are to regard them in posse, not in esse,--in the possibilities which were wrapped up in that day, 1620, not in what poor human bodies actually produced at that time. Men look back upon the Carvers and Bradfords of 1620, and seem to think, if they existed in 1855, they would be clad in the same garments, and walking in the same identical manner and round that they did in 1620. It is a mistake. The Pilgrims of 1620 would be, in 1855, not in Plymouth, but in Kansas. [Loud cheers.] Solomon's Temple, they tell us, had the best system of lightning-rods ever invented,--he anticipated Franklin. Do you suppose, if Solomon lived now, he would stop at lightning-conductors? No, he would have telegraphs without wires, able to send messages both ways at the same time, and where only he who sent and he who received should know what the messages were. Do you suppose that, if Elder Brewster could come up from his grave to-day, he would be contented with the Congregational Church and the
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The pulpit (1860). (search)
le or no importance whatever to the pulpit. For centuries she had no pulpit. They are totally distinct elements, the devotional and the morally intellectual. The pulpit springs into being whenever there is an earthquake in society, whenever the great intellectual heavens are broken up, and men begin to shape their purposes and plans anew. Whenever a nation is passing through a transition period in its thought, then the pulpit springs into being and special value. The priesthood of Solomon's Temple was one thing; that was a church. The prophets, Jeremiah and Isaiah, were a totally distinct body, and they were a pulpit. The pulpit, therefore, you perceive by this very statement, must shape itself according to its time. Its object is not distinctly to educate, as we most often use that word. Here is the division of the spheres of education. The theatre amuses, the press instructs, the pulpit improves. Education with the motive of moral purpose is the essence of the pulpit. Th
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The lost arts (1838). (search)
ranklin invented the lightning-rod. I have no doubt he did; but years before his invention, and before muskets were invented, the old soldiers on guard on the towers used Franklin's invention to keep guard with; and if a spark passed between them and the spear-head, they ran and bore the warning of the state and condition of affairs. After that you will admit that Benjamin Franklin was not the only one that knew of the presence of electricity, and the advantages derived from its use. Solomon's Temple, you will find, was situated on an exposed point of the hill; the temple was so lofty that it was often in peril, and was guarded by a system exactly like that of Benjamin Franklin. Well, I may tell you a little of ancient manufactures. The Duchess of Burgundy took a necklace from the neck of a mummy, and wore it to a ball given at the Tuileries; and everybody said they thought it was the newest thing there. A Hindoo princess came into court; and her father, seeing her, said, Go ho