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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ooth flint-stone, is now glazed by passing between rollers, one of which moves slower than the other, so that a rubbing action is obtained. The machine was introduced into England by the Huguenots about 1685, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. This edict was granted to the Protestants of France by Henry IV., April 13, 1598, and revoked by Louis XIV., October 22, 1685. They scattered to England, to Charleston, S. C., and other places, taking their industry and their skill with them. century, Augsburg became famous for the manufacture of its printed cottons and linens. About the same time, that is, in 1696, calico-printing was introduced into England from France, by one of the French victims of the revolution of the Edict of Nantes. He established works on the Thames, near Richmond. This villainous act of Louis XIV. inured to the benefit of other nations, especially England, who gave an asylum to many industrious artificers and artists. About twenty-five years afterward
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
rnard Palissy, the Huguenot potter, born about 1500, devoted many years to the discovery and application of enamels of various colors to pottery. He was remarkably successful in true copies of natural objects. His method died with him. He died in 1589, in prison, for consciencea sake. John Petitot, of Geneva (1607 – 91), is regarded as one of the first to excel in portraits. He worked for Charles I. of England, and subsequently for Louis XIV. of France. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes drove him from France to the city of his birth, Geneva. In 1632, Jean Tontin, of Chateaudun, introduced the practice of grinding the colors in oil of spike, instead of water. Faience and majolica may be considered forms of the art. The enameled portrait of herself, presented by Queen Victoria to Mr. Peabody, is fresh in the recollection of those who speak the language common to the donor and presentee. Enamel is applied to various kinds of pots and pans for stewing and preservin
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
e space around the zinc is filled with sand. The whole is then moistened with water. According to the inventor, this battery acts for an entire year, water and sulphate of copper being added occasionally. The gravity battery of M. Callaud of Nantes has a single cell, the separation of the liquids being effected by the difference in their specific gravities. The copper element is in the bottom, in the solution of sulphate of copper; and the zinc element is suspended in an upper part of the der Bajazet overran the provinces of the Eastern Empire before the end of that century. The arts of making silk and other fine goods, crystal glasses, and jewelry, were carried to the Netherlands and to England by the Revocation of the Ediet of Nantes, granted by Henry IV. in 1598, confirmed by Louis XI. in 1610, and Louis XIV. in 1652, and revoked by Louis XIV., Oct. 22, 1685. Fifty thousand Protestant families left France for more tolerant countries, and the world is the better off from t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
hens, a Dutch astronomer (1629– 1695). This wonderful man excelled in mathematical and mechanical science and art. He improved the telescope; discovered the ring of Saturn (as such); reapplied the pendulum to beating time, and first accurately adapted it; invented the micrometer; and in his various communications to the Academy of Sciences in Paris and the Royal Society of London illuminated all he undertook. He was one of the emigrants driven from France at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and exchanged the friendship of Louis XIV. for that of Newton. See negative eye-piece. Hy-al′o-graph. An instrument for tracing a design on a transparent surface. Hy-alo-type. （Photography.) A photographic positive on glass. Hydrants. Hydrants. Hy′drant. A valve and spout connecting with a water-main, and by which water may be drawn from the latter. In the domestic form, as usual in the yards of our city houses, the spout is elevated sufficiently to allow it
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
cation and sale of cloth. Edward III. encouraged the immigration of weavers and cloth-makers, but the art does not seem to have flourished in England as it did on the Continent, as wool continued to be a staple article of export. During the persecutions of the Duke of Alva in Flanders, in the sixteenth century, many Flemish weavers settled in England, and introduced or promoted the manufacture of baizes, serges, crapes, and other descriptions of stuffs. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 (granted to the French Protestants by Henry IV. in 1598, confirmed by Louis XIII. in 1610, and by Louis XIV. in 1652), by Louis XIV. drove from France many ingenious artisans, who carried with them to England and other countries the arts of silk working, making crystal glass, jewelry, etc. In weaving plain cloth the threads which run lengthwise of the fabric constitute the warp. Those in the direction of the width are called the weft, woof, shoot, or tram. The warp is divid
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
rom Palestine, plundered Athens and Corinth, seized workmen who understood the silk manufacture, and introduced it into his own dominions. From thence it slowly spread to Italy and France. Louis XI., in 1480, obtained Italian workmen and established the manufacture at Tours, and in 1521 Francis I. established a colony of Milanese at Lyons. The manufacture was encouraged in England by James I. in emulation of his Brother the French King. as he styles him. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV., in 1685, drove 50,000 Protestants from France, and materially aided in spreading the manufacture of silk, crystal glass, jewelry, and other fine goods, in which that nation of émeutes and artists so highly excelled. In 1717, John Lombe obtained by stealth from Sardinia a model of the silk throwing-mill, and set up silk-works in Derby, England. The works afterward devolved upon his brother William, and then reverted to a cousin, who became Sir Thomas Lombe, whose name is al
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
w or gaged work, dome, or niche for which they are destined. Tin-scrap. Clippings or scraps made in the manufacture of tin-ware. It consists of iron plate, partially alloyed, and also coated, with tin, the amount of the latter varying from three to five per cent. In inferior wares the tin is itself debased with lead. In the manufacture of tin-ware it is said that 6 per cent of the whole of the plates employed disappears in the form of scraps. The trade in sardine-boxes produced at Nantes, in 1869, nearly 400 tons of scrap; Birmingham produces about 20 tons per week, and Paris 50 to 60 tons per month. The tin-scrap of New York is estimated at 30 tons per day. A small quantity of these scraps has always been used in various ways, such as fluxing lead ores, and the addition of a small proportion to the pig-iron intended for steam-cylinders. The following plans for the recovery of the tin have been proposed:— a. Edward Schunk (English) patented, in 1848, three processes:
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
ndon and Blackwall Railway is built in the same manner upon a continuous series of brick arches. Its length is 3 miles 38 chains, and its cost £ 1,083,951. Remarkable viaducts are shown in the railway-bridges (so to call them) over the Susquehanna and many Southern rivers; the Ohio, at Louisville. In England: over the Avon, on the line of the London and Northwestern Railway: the Victoria Bridge, over the valley of the Wear: the Crumlin Viaduct, in Wales. In France: over the Monie, near Nantes. In Holland: over rivers and dieps. In India: over the Ganges. See bridge; trestle; truss; wooden bridge; etc. Vi′al. A small, long bottle. Vi-a-tom′e-ter. A way-measurer, as its name indicates. See odometer; pedometer. Vi′brat-ing-pis′ton steam-en′gine. One in which the power is communicated to the crank through pistons which are vibrating in their motion, and which move through an arc of a circle. Vibrating-piston engine. Fig. 6976 shows one in which the