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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 452 6 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 260 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 174 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 117 3 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 107 7 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 89 17 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 85 83 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 77 1 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 72 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 52 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
rriages are hooked together, and are drawn by horses and a towing-rope. A railway on this principle was constructed in 1825 at Cheshunt, in England, and used for conveying bricks across the marshes to the river Lea, where they were shipped. Fisher's English patent, 1825, in the same figure, shows a suspended carriage between two lines of rail. In the figure, the bar a with rail-flanges b b is shown suspended by rods from a catenary chain, which is supposed to be spanning a river or deeporms are elevated by a perpendicular lift operated by compressed air. In India, Australia, and some other places, it has not been unusual to cross gullies and rivers by means of a bucket or basket suspended from a cord. The patents of Palmer, Fisher, and Dick, already cited, are an amplification of this idea, a carriage being arranged to travel on a rail. The idea has recently been reduced to practice in a compact and useful form. See wire-way. El′e-vating—block. A tackle-block us
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
853T. CullenApr. 13, 1869. 89,955L. B. TiebelMay 11, 1869. *101,845D. EllisApr. 12, 1870. 104,775S. RydberkJune 28, 1870. 114,259H. BuchnerMay 2, 1871. *116,066J. L. KirkJune 20, 1871. 119,145HenrySept. 19, 1871. 123,595G. H. TibbetsFeb. 13, 1872. 126,748C. F. RussellMay 14, 1872. *136,600G. D. LuceMar. 11, 1873. *138,439Rodier and BatesApr. 29, 1873. 138,837G. AstonMay 13, 1873. 139,323A. MarelliMay 27, 1873. 139,422W. RichardsMay 27, 1873. 3. (b.) Moving Laterally. 168Fisher and ChamberlinApr. 17, 1837. 14,667P. LancasterApr. 15, 1856. *19,387C. C. TerrillFeb. 16, 1858. 33,560Vittum and StevensOct. 22, 1861. 35,685P. J. JarreJune 24, 1862. 51,225E. SchoppNov. 28, 1865. 4. Swinging or rotating Laterally. (a.) On a Longitudinal Pin or Hinge. No.Name.Date. 193W. H. HubbellMar. 11, 1837. *364S. DayAug. 31, 1837. 3,649W. W. HubbellJuly 1, 1844. 6,139D. MinesingerFeb. 27, 1849. *9.701C. N. TylerMay 3, 1853. *14,017B. GroomJan. 1, 1856. *14,406F. Ne
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ugh the former loop, and so on continuously. Sewing-machine made of a single slip of metal. c. The looping of one stitch by the loop of another is shown in Fisher and Gibbon's English patent, No. 10,424, of 1844. One thread is on a lower curved eye-pointed needle, which passes upward through the fabric, whereupon the upper ersJuly 27, 1869. 93,540JonesAug. 10, 1869. 94,175BensterAug. 31, 1869. 95,362LewisSept. 28, 1869. 102,469AlterMay 3, 1870. 103,159DodgeMay 17, 1870. 103,318FisherMay 24, 1870. 109,612GrimesNov. 29, 1870. 109,668Rogers et al.Nov. 29, 1870. 111,199GrimesJan. 24, 1871. 112,245HerterichFeb. 28, 1871. 112,327DufourMar. 7, 1he following list of United States patents, which includes horse-clipping machines:— No.Name.Date.No.Name.Date. 12,760.Lancaster185582,673.Alwood1868 14,354.Fisher185684,905.Reid1868 14,840.Wilder185684,926.Wilson et al1868 15,948.Jenkins185688,317.McCarty et al1869 16,461.Bradley185788,340.Smith et al1869 16,720.Chamber
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
iate inflammation and consequent explosion of the gunpowder in the magazine. The experiment of the Louisiana before Fort Fisher in 1864 is one of the latest instances. Two hundred and fifteen tons of powder were stowed on board. A tier of barre are laid in a row, and a piece of board placed over them to increase the chances of explosion. Lay-torpedo. At Fort Fisher, larger torpedoes, connected in sets and designed to be fired by electricity, were arranged on the land face of the wden upon, and others connected by wires with electric batteries, were used in the defense of Sebastopol. Plan of fort Fisher, N. C., showing the part extending across the Isthmus, and the face protected by torpedoes. Fig. 6560 shows the northeast face of Fort Fisher, N. C., with the line of torpedoes, twenty-four in number, which were connected with the fort by three sets of double wires, each apparently intended to fire five or more torpedoes. The torpedoes were of three kind: shells, 1
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
by a treadle, the revolution of the pinions twists the wire. Wire-way. A wire or wire-rope suspended from posts, and forming a way upon which loaded carriages traverse for the conveyance of freight. This mode of transportation was described and represented in a work written by Mandey and Moxon, and published in London in 1696. Hodgson's wire-tramway, lately introduced into England, is substantially similar to the elevated railways which were patented in England in 1825 by Palmer, Fisher, and Dick. See elevated Railway. An endless wire-rope is carried on a series of grooved pulleys, supported in pairs upon stout posts ordinarily about fifty yards, but in some cases at much farther intervals apart. At one end the rope passes around a clip drum, worked by a stationary engine; at the other end it passes around a plain cylinder. In one erected in Leicestershire, for conveying stone from the quarry to a railway station, a distance of three miles, the rope, 1/2 inch in di