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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
nds of the bags, and by alternately raising each with the mouth open and pushing it into the calabash when closed, the contained air is forced into the tubes and a continuous blast maintained. Wooden bellows were known in Germany in the middle of the sixteenth century, but it is not certain by whom they were invented. Lobsinger of Nuremberg (1550), and Schelhorn of Schmalebuche, in Coburg (1630), are cited as having introduced them. They are described in a work by Reyner, professor at Kiel, 1669, as being pneumatic chests, and as consisting essentially of a lid moving in a closely fitting box. In another form we find that two boxes were used, one fitting closely within the other, and the two, being perhaps quadrantal segments of cylinders, were hinged together so that the movable one vibrated on the common axis. Forge-bellows. Old Roman lump. The ordinary bellows in its simplest form consists of two flat boards, usually of triangular shape, each having a projecting han
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
of a tourniquet are a pad, which is compressed upon the severed artery above the point of division, and a band, by which it is tightly held to the limb. a (Fig. 6570) is Tiemann's direct-pressure tourniquet. Both sides of the pad are free from pressure, so as not to stop the circulation of the venous blood. b, Petit's spiral tourniquet. c, United States Army field-tourniquet. d, Valentine Mott's tourniquet. f, Lawrence's eye-tourniquet. e, tourniquet by Professor Esmarch of Kiel, particularly adapted for operations, as necrotomy, in which a great effusion of blood is to be apprehended. The lower portion of the limb is enveloped in oiled silk, to prevent soiling the bandage, and an elastic rubber bandage is then tightly wrapped around the lower part of the limb, forcing the blood out of the vessels. Above the termination of the bandage, an india-rubber cord is wound four or five times around the limb, and its two ends are joined by a hook upon one entering a link
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 21: Germany.—October, 1839, to March, 1840.—Age, 28-29. (search)
hills in russet clad; but lovely indeed must it be when they are invested with the green and purple of summer and autumn. Every thing is on the simplest scale. I dined with Mittermaier, Ante, Vol. I. p. 160. who, out of deference to my habit of dining late, placed his dinner at half-past 12 instead of twelve, though he told me he was afraid it would trouble Mr. Thibaut, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut died March 28, 1840, at the age of sixty-six. He was Professor of Law successively at Kiel, Jena, and Heidelberg. He advocated as early as 1814 a national code. See references to Thibaut and Mittermaier, Works, Vol. II. p. 442.—dear old man,—who was to be of the party, and who was not accustomed to such late hours. Think of me, who, in every country which I have visited, have dined later than everybody else, and never take any thing from breakfast till dinner. At the table at that hour, of course, I had no appetite; and Madame Mittermaier said, with much naivete;, Why, you do
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 9: illness and death of Mrs. Longfellow (search)
lution, and to me the blow was so sudden, that I have hardly yet recovered energy enough to write you the particulars of this solemn and mournful event. When I think, however, upon the goodness and purity of her life, and the holy and peaceful death she died, I feel great consolation in my bereavement, and can say, Father, thy will be done. Knowing the delicate state of Mary's health, I came all the way from Stockholm with fear and trembling, and with the exception of one day's ride from Kiel to Hamburg we came the whole distance by water. Unfortunately our passage from Hamburg to Amsterdam in the Steamboat was rather rough, and Mary was quite unwell. On the night of our arrival the circumstance occurred to which I alluded in my last, [the premature birth of a child] and which has had this fatal termination. . . . In Amsterdam we remained three weeks; and Mary seemed to be quite restored and was anxious to be gone. To avoid a possibility of fatigue we took three days to come to
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
249; Longfellow imitates, 26, 27; speaks of Longfellow, 50; his Sketch Book compared with Longfellow's Outre-Mer, 69-71. Italy, 33, 50, 55, 65, 96, 142, 223. Jamaica Plain, Mass., 146. James, G. P. R., 237. Janin, Jules, 161. Jefferson, Thomas, 6. Jewett, Sarah O., 198. Johnson, Eastman, 272. Jones, J. A., 23. Jones, Sir, William, 43; his Letters, 42. Joubert, J., his Pensees, quoted, 235. Keats, John, 280. Kemble, Mrs., 200. Kent, Duke of, 118. Khayyam, Omar, 282. Kiel, 108. Kingsley, Rev., Charles, 237. Knickerbocker, the, 140. Korner, Charles Theodore, 64. Kossuth, Louis, 173. Lafayette, Marquis de, 52. Lamartine, Alphonse M. L. de, 161. Lawrence, Sir, Thomas, 207. Lawton, William C., 234, 266; his The New England Poets, cited, 234 note, 265 note. Lenau, Nicholas, 161. Leopold, King of the Belgiums, 195. Lincoln, Abraham, 6. Liston, Sir, Robert, 93. Liszt, Abbe, 223. Liverpool, Eng., 219. Locke, John, 55. Loire, the river, 49.