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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
ment by clock-work. Its objectglass is 25 inches in diameter. The new refracting instrument for the Naval Observatory of Washington, D. C., is being made by Alvan Clark, of Cambridgeport, Mass., and will probably be completed during the present year (1873). Its object-glass is complete, and has a diameter of 27 inches. It is the largest of its class, and great hopes are reasonably entertained of its performances. Large telescopes, equatorially mounted, are in the observatories of Cambridge, Eng., Cambridge, U. S., Chicago, Albany, Alleghany, and Pulkowa, Russia. The equatorial of Melbourne, Australia, is a reflector. See telescope. As′tro-scope. 1. An astronomical instrument composed of two cones, on whose surfaces the constellations, with their stars, are delineated, and by means of which the stars may be known; an imperfect substitute for the celestial globe. — Webster. 2. An astronomical instrument provided with telescopes, for observing the stars, invented and
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
itted in fusing pure lime caused this invention to be recommended by Lieutenant Drummond, of the British Engineers, as an illumination for lighthouses, and it is now known as the Drummond light. Dr. Hare used an instrument terminating in fifteen jet pipes of platinum. These were adjusted so as to pass through a vessel filled with ice or snow, to prevent the gases becoming heated, and obviate the danger of an explosion by a retrocession of the flame into a single pipe. Dr. Clarke, of Cambridge, England, inclosed in the pipe containing the two gases a great number of layers of fine wire gauze, to prevent explosion; though his experiments were successful in a scientific view, the apparatus proved too dangerous for common use. M. Goldsworthy Gurney contrived an instrument in which the gases were forced from their reservoirs through a tube to the bottom of a chamber containing water, the gas rising through the water and passing immediately to the burner; a stiff pasteboard cap closely co
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), K. (search)
Elizabeth in 1560. About this time knitted worsted stockings were made by William Rider of London, after the pattern of some imported from Mantua. Silk and worsted stockings were imported from Spain and Italy into England during the reign of Henry VIII. Spain was always famous for its sheep and wool. (See merino.) In 1530 the word knit was common in England, and occurs in Palgrave's grammar. In 1577 the country folks knitted their own stockings. In 1589, William Lee, M. A., of Cambridge, England, invented and made a model of a knittingframe. He applied to Elizabeth for help, and then to Henry IV. of France, who promised it. The assassination of Henry threw him into poverty and obscurity, in which he died. His workmen, with their stocking-frames, settled in Derbyshire and started a factory, which soon threw the hose of woolen cloth and leather entirely out of the market. Queen Elizabeth refused a patent to William Lee on account of the value of his invention; as it would in
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
nking apparatus and the paper-cylinder alternately. To double the rate, a paper-cylinder was to be placed on each side of the inking apparatus. The ink was placed in a trough and ejected upon the upper of a series of rollers, passed downward in the series; and here first occurred the distributing-roller with end motion. Konig designed to combine two single machines to form a perfecting-press, but did not succeed. Donkin and Bacon's machine, 1813, was built for the University of Cambridge, England. Several forms were attached on the sides of a prism, and were presented consecutively to the inking-cylinder and paper-cylinder. In this machine were first used the composition inkingrollers of glue and molasses. In 1815, Cowper obtained a patent for curved electrotype-plates to be affixed to a cylinder. The greater portion of the cylinder formed a distributing surface for the ink; the remainder was occupied by the stereotypeplate. Applegath and Cowper's single machine went b
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
84 Fort Colville, Wash. Ter.9.83 Neah Bay, Wash. Ter123.35 Sitka, Alaska83.39 Vera Cruz, Mexico183.20 Cordova, Mexico112.08 Bermuda55.34 San Domingo107.6 Havana, Cuba91.2 Rio Janeiro, Brazil59.2 Maranham277.00 Cayenne116.00 Toronto, Canada35.17 St. Johns, Newfoundland58.30 St. John, N. B.51.12 To these may be added the following figures of foreign rainfall:— London, England24.4 Liverpool, England34.5 Manchester, England36.2 Bath, England30.0 Truro, England44.0 Cambridge, England24.9 York, England23 Borrowdale, England141.54 Dublin, Ireland29.1 Cork, Ireland40.2 Limerick, Ireland35 Armagh, Ireland36.12 Aberdeen, Scotland28.87 Glasgow, Scotland21.33 Bergen, Norway88.61 Stockholm20.4 Copenhagen18.35 Berlin23.56 Mannheim22.47 Prague14.1 Cracow13.3 Brussels28.06 Paris22.64 Geneva31.07 Milan38.01 Rome30.86 Naples29.64 Marseilles23.4 Lisbon27.1 Coimbra Port118.8 Bordeaux34.00 Algiers36.99 St Petersburg17.3 Simpheropol, Crimea14.83 Kut
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
2. (Farriery.) A device for remedying injuries to the tendons, varicose veins, etc., occurring in the lower part of a horse's leg. It has upright braces, to maintain a tension on the part; is perforated, to permit a certain degree of ventilation; and is secured by laces. Horse-stocking. Stock′ing-frame. The English term for a stocking-knitting machine. The term frame is there common, as spinning-frame, warping-frame, etc. The stocking-frame was invented by William Lee, of Cambridge, England, 1589. In this machine the thread is first pushed down between each alternate needle of a set by a series of levers with plates, termed jack-sinkers, which are depressed successively by a sort of carriage on rollers, the slur, operated by the slur-bar. Another series of levers with plates, called leadsinkers, is then depressed by a sinkerbar, forming a loop between each pair of needles. The loops are then pushed back out of the way of the sinkers and another set formed in the same w
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Doctor Holmes. (search)
ctor inquired concerning her literary occupation she replied that she considered herself too old to drive a quill any longer, and then fortunately added: Now, there is Doctor Holmes, I think he shows his customary good judgment in retiring from the literary field in proper season. What the Doctor thought of this is unknown, but he still continued to write. At the age of seventy his alma mater conferred on Doctor Holmes an Ll.D., and this was followed soon afterwards by Oxford and Cambridge, in England; but why was it not given ten or fifteen years earlier, when Holmes was in his prime? Then it might have been a service and a satisfaction to him; but when a man is seventy such tributes have small value for him. There had been an Atlantic breakfast for Doctor Holmes in Boston, and a Holmes breakfast in New York. He was in the public eye, and by honoring him the University honored itself. So Harvard conferred an Ll.D. on General Winfield Scott just before the fatal battle of Bull
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 1: old Cambridge (search)
f which the large willows on Holmes's Field are the last lingering memorial,--it might nevertheless have gone the way of many abortive early settlements, had it not been for the establishment of Harvard College there. We Cambridge boys early learned, however, that this event was due mainly to the renown attained, as a preacher and author, by the Rev. Thomas Shepard, known in his day as the holy, heavenly, sweet-affecting, and soul-ravishing Mr. Shepard, a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, who came to America in 1635. A voluminous author, some of whose works are yet reprinted in England, he was the ruling spirit of the Cambridge synod, which was held in 1637 to pronounce against antinomian and familistic opinions. He was described by his contemporaries as a poor, weak, pale-complectioned man, yet such was his power that the synod condemned under his guidance about eighty opinions, some blasphemous, other erroneous, all unsound, as even the tolerant Winthrop declared.
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Harvard University. (search)
hops.) 2. Collections. (Libraries, Museums, Gardens, and Arboretum.) 3. Aid for Students. (Scholarships, Fellowships, and other aids.) 4. Prizes. (For essays, versions, and speaking.) 5. Publications. (Annals, Journals, Memoirs, Monographs, and Bulletins.) 6. Administration. (Salaries in administrative offices, libraries, and collections.) Below these inscriptions are two more, one speaking of John Harvard:— John Harvard was a Master of Arts of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, founded by Sir Walter Mildmay. The second is a quotation from Thomas Fuller's History of the University of Cambridge (1655), and speaks thus of Sir Walter Mildmay:— Coming to Court after he had founded his Colledge, the Queen told him, Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a Puritan Foundation. No, Madam, saith he, farre be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established Lawes, but I have set an Acorn, which when it becomes an Oake, God alone knows what will be
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The Protestant churches of Cambridge. (search)
nt, embracing many churches in the place of one, must be much briefer and more general. The Protestant Episcopal Church was the second of the churches here. Several worthy gentlemen, members of the Church of England, petitioned the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, to appoint a missionary who should perform divine service and administer religious ordinances according to the belief and usage of the English Church. Rev. East Apthorp, a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, England, was proposed, and was appointed in 1759. In 1761 Christ Church was opened for service. In the time of the Revolution service in the church was interrupted, and the house was used for military purposes, though an occasional service was held. In 1790 the house was restored, and it has since been enlarged and adorned. The longest ministry was that of Rev. Nicholas Hoppin, from 1839 to 1874. He stands worthily in this long pastorate with his friends, Dr. Albro and Dr. Newell. The p
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