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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
were mentioned by Bede, and are known to have been used in England prior to the year 700. Bells were first cast in England in the reign of Edmund, A. D. 940. In A. D. 610, Clotaire II., king of France, besieged Sens, when Lupus, Bishop of Orleans, ordered the bells of St. Stephen to be rung. The sound so frightened Clotaire that he gave up the siege. So they say. Pope John IX. ordered bells to be rung as a defence against thunder and lightning, A. D. 900. All the bells in Europeed iron, bent into a four-sided form and brazed together at the corners. One of these, said to have belonged to St. Patrick, is preserved in the city of Belfast. For a long period they were made of comparatively small size. One in a church at Orleans, in the eleventh century, weighed 2,600 pounds, and was considered as remarkably large at that time. During the thirteenth century much larger bells began to be cast. The Jacqueline, at Paris, cast in 1300, weighed 15,000 pounds; one cast at
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
was agitated as early as 1555, and various surveys and reports were made, as well as several commencements attempted. The lavish expenditure upon the buildings and parks for the personal aggrandizement of Louis XIV, delayed the works of public utility, and it was not till near the end of the last century that it was opened. Its length is 114.322 metres. The canal uniting the Somme and the Scheldt was undertaken in 1776 and completed in 1810. The length is 32 1/2 miles. The canal of Orleans is 45 miles long, uniting the Loire and the Seine. The canal between the Baltic and North Seas at Kiel was opened 1785. That from the Cattegat to the Baltic, 1794-1800. The main line of the Ganges Canal, 525 miles long, for irrigating the country between the Ganges and the Jumna, was opened in 1854. When completed, it will be 900 miles long, and will irrigate 1,470,000 acres. Its estimated cost is £ 1,555,548. Sir Proby Cautley, engineer. The canal in England joining the Trent and
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
time, the supply-opening is closed and that for discharge opened, while on the opposite side a contrary effect is produced. Arrangements are provided to prevent the vessel from tilting until it is entirely filled. The meter of M. Clement of Orleans consists of an upright cylinder divided into five compartments, each of which is caused to actuate a crank on a vertical axis common to all. This carries a compound stop-cock, which admits the water to and discharges it from each compartment wheboy was invented. Jacquard's ingenious invention superseded this, producing an entire revolution in the art of figureweaving. Joseph Maria Jacquard was born at Lyons, 1752; invented his loom for weaving figured fabrics in 1801; and died at Orleans in 1834. The action of the Jacquard in producing patterns upon fabric may be briefly described as follows: — To the ordinary looms perforated cards are added, through which certain needles pass, causing the threads to rise and fall, accord
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
, which is the kind principally used in England, contains, in addition to acetic acid, most of the constituents of beer. The vinegar of Sphettus was celebrated by Aristophanes and Athenaeus as remarkably pungent. Vinegar may be derived from any saccharine solution capable of undergoing alcoholic fermentation, the alcohol being converted into acetic acid by the subtraction of two atoms of hydrogen and the addition of two atoms of oxygen. Wine-vinegar is made — principally in France, Orleans being a chief seat of the manufacture — from inferior wines and grape refuse. The liquid is clarified by straining through a tun filled with beechwood chips, and is then placed in casks, which are filled about two thirds full, and kept in a room where a constant temperature of 86° is maintained. The process occupies several weeks. The process of making cider-vinegar is entirely analogous, all that is required being that the liquid should have sufficient time and heat to pass to the alcoh