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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
to sockets in the lintel and threshold respectively. The commonest form of door had the pintle in the middle of the width, so that, as it opened, a way was afforded on each side of it for ingress or egress. This is much better than the villianous system of making the doors of churches, theaters, and assembly-rooms open inward, forming traps to catch the people when a stampede occurs from a fire or an alarm. It is but recent in our recollection, the account of the burning of a cathedral at Callao or some other city on the South American coast, when the building, decked out with paper and calico, in all the frippery of a saint's gala-day, was burned, with 800 miserable people, — women and children chiefly, for such are the principal patrons of churches in that land of Mestizoes. It is not to be inferred that a simple valve swinging on a central axis was the only form of door, for in other structures we find the sockets near the posts, showing that the door turned upon an axis in th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
ls; the ties are from Oregon, the locomotives and cars from the United States. The plate opposite is a view of the Furka pass and the Rhone glacier, Canton Valais, Switzerland. The winding road is shown in the view, climbing up a spur of the mountain, which is immediately west of Mt. St. Gothard. See also views in Lippincott's magazine, Vol. VIII. p. 324; and London Engineer, Vol. XXXII., 1871, p. 233. The longest inclined plane on an artificial road is said to be that from Lima to Callao, which is about 6 miles, and has a descent of 511 feet, or about 1 in 60. The ascent from the Konkan, or flat country of Bombay, by the Western Ghauts to the table-land of the Deccan, is known as the Bhore Ghaut incline, in which the railway rises from the plain 2,000 feet in a series of steps 16 miles in length. The Righi Railway in Switzerland rises by a locomotive of peculiar form 1,170 feet in traversing 4,700. The boiler, furnace, and carriage are inclined so as to present a leve
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
s, 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 makes the circuit of the globe, have twice totally destroyed the town of Callao with the greater part of its inhabitants, carrying ships far inland. None, however, have probably equalled in their hight, or in the extent for which they have been traced over the earth's surface, that which accompanied the terrible earthquake at Arequipa a few minutes after 5 P. M., on the 13th of August, 1868. At Callao the waters retreated considerably, but the return flow was much less severe in its effects. Irregular movements of the sea, however, continued for several days. In less than three hours after the occurrence of the earthquake the effects of this wave were experienced at Coquimbo 800 miles south of Arica, and in about an hour it had reached Constitucion, 450 miles still farther to the south ward. At San Pedr