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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
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 10: (search)
ssengers, one of the Bremen line of steamers came in, and took them quickly on board. Colonel Ritchie was also closely watched, and had, for the first ten days, devoted himself to putting the detectives who followed him on a wrong scent. Fortunately, we were never called upon to use these guns, for which the carriages had been, meanwhile, designed by General William Raymond Lee, chief engineer on the Governor's staff; but the reception given by a few of them to the Spanish iron-clads off Callao is a sufficient testimony of the good service they would have rendered in time of need. The Legislature for 1864 met at the State House on the 6th of January. The Senate, which was unanimously Republican, made choice of Jonathan E. Field, of Stockbridge, for President, and Stephen N. Gifford, clerk; each gentleman receiving every vote cast. Mr. Field, on assuming the duties of the chair, said,— It is our privilege and pride to represent a Commonwealth for whose course no apology h
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1863. (search)
probably do if he made the return voyage, led him to leave the Peabody; and within a few days he shipped again, in the Commonwealth, an American vessel bound for Callao. He carried out with him from Boston several Latin and Greek text-books, and other books for reading and study, intending to use them in his spare hours, so as thim on the Peabody, since he had shipped as ordinary seaman, and had thus more opportunity to learn and do the more intricate parts of the work. On arriving at Callao, he found that the crew had been shipped under false pretences, and that the ship was bound for the Chincha Island for guano,—a place to which sailors will never h the assistance of the second mate beat him badly. This determined him to leave the ship at all hazards, which he did that night. After a stay of a few days at Callao, he shipped again as ordinary seaman on the Rival, a Boston vessel, bound for Cork. The first twenty-five days of this passage were pleasant. But by that time t
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
de him invaluable. After the war he acted for several years as teller of the savings bank at Augusta, Georgia. During the administration of General Grant, through the influence of Hon. A. H. Stephens, he was appointed United States consul to Callao, Peru, a position he filled with distinguished honor for three years, until he fell a victim to yellow fever. He died March 22, 1877, and was buried in the English cemetery, Belle Vista, between Callao and Lima. Leroy Pope Walker Leroy Pope WCallao and Lima. Leroy Pope Walker Leroy Pope Walker, the first war secretary, was born near Huntsville, Alabama, July 28, 1817, the son of the distinguished John William Walker, who presided over the convention which framed the constitution of the State. He was admitted to the bar in 1838, was elected brigadier-general of Alabama militia, and in 1843 was elected to the legislature by Lawrence county. In 1847 he represented Lauderdale county, and was chosen speaker of the House that year and in 1849. At the first election of judges by the
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 24: 1872: Aet. 65. (search)
have never felt more disposed for work, and yet never so fatigued by it. From Santiago Agassiz proceeded to Valparaiso, where he rejoined the ship's company. The events of their cruise had been less satisfactory than those of his land-journey, for, owing to the rottenness of the ropes, produced by dampness, the hauls of the dredge from the greatest depths had been lost. Several pauses for dredging in shallower waters were made with good success, nevertheless, on the way up the coast to Callao. From there the Hassler put out to sea once more, for the Galapagos, arriving before Charles Island on the 10th of June, and visiting in succession Albemarle, James, Jarvis, and Indefatigable islands. Agassiz enjoyed extremely his cruise among these islands of such rare geological and zoological interest. Purely volcanic in character, and of very recent formation, they yet support a fauna and flora quite their own, very peculiar and characteristic. Albemarle Island was, perhaps, the m
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford. (search)
e recorded from Boston or New York to San Francisco: Dauntless, 116 days; John Wade, 116 days; Kingfisher, 114 days; Fleetwing, 121 days; Norwester, 122 days; Morning Star, 146 days; Syren, 118 days. Other ships of this period, but not in this list of extreme clipper type, which made fast voyages to San Francisco from Boston or New York were the National Eagle, 134 days; Wild Ranger, 122 and 127 days; Osborn Howes, 153 days; Good Hope, 143 days. The Thatcher Magoun made the trip from San Francisco to New York in 94 days. The record passage was 76 days made by the Northern Light to Boston and the Comet to New York. Besides the California passages, the Whirlwind made the voyage from New York to Melbourne in 80 days. The Ringleader made the same trip in 78 days, the best day's run being 336 knots. The Shooting Star made the run from Canton to Boston in 86 days, and the Phantom made the passage from Callao to Rio Janeiro in 32 days, this being the quickest run ever made.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford. (search)
The Phantom was probably the fastest clipper ship built in Medford, with the exception of the Herald of the Morning. She was designed for the California service just after the discovery of gold had made the prices of necessities in California very high, and speed was the first requisite. She had experienced the usual share of disasters at different times in her voyages around the Horn. This item appears in the Boston Shipping List of February, 1854: Ship Phantom of Boston, Hallet, fr. Callao via Rio Janeiro for N. Y., went ashore morning of the 16th in a snow storm, on Flying Knoll, near Sandy Hook. She had a bad list to leeward. The following notice is found in the Boston Courier of May 26, 1853: Ship Phantom, Hallet, hence to San Francisco, experienced very heavy weather Feb. 27 to Mch. 17. Lost overboard two sailors and carried away head and three feet of the stem below the bowsprit, stove in cabin windows, started 10 channels, and disabled 12 or 15 men by washing
The Daily Dispatch: November 3, 1860., [Electronic resource], Oil in Western Virginia. (search)
Norfolk, Nov.1 Nov. 1.--Arr'd, schr. King William, Richmond. New York,Oct. 31.--Arrived, bark Virginian, of Richmond, 49 days from Rio. Philadelphia,Nov.1.--Cleared, schr. W. Kennedy, Norfolk. HavanaOct. 24--Arrived, brig S. P. Brown, Norfolk. [By Telegraph.] Hampton Roads,Nov. 2--Arrived, ship Geo. Peabody, from Callao, via Valparaiso.
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