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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1862., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 2 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 4 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
ed weighted air-holder descends gradually, it forces air through the flexible pipe into the aquarium. The aquarium of the Paris Exposition was a remarkable success, and has given rise to much more ambitious structures. The aquarium of Brighton, England, for instance, occupies ground 715 feet in length, with an average width of a hundred feet. The aquarium proper is divided into three corridors. The first is divided again into nineteen bays, which are roofed over with bricks, groined vaulr to impel the carriage. In this he differed from Papin and Medhurst, who proposed a plenum in the rear, and not a vacuum in the advance. Vallance's tunnel was to be of iron or vitrified clay, and he constructed a short tube in his garden at Brighton, which worked on the moderate scale on which it was applied, and was occasionally noticed in the journals of the day. So far all the inventors have proposed that the carriage shall travel in the tube in the manner of a piston. The next propo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
the channel-plate to the ship's side. 2. One having an attached chain by which it may be drawn back, falling by its own gravity or pushed into place by a spring. Used with high doors of rooms or book-cases. Chain-bridge. 1. A form of ferry-bridge in which the passage is made by chains laid across the river and anchored on each side, and moving over chain-wheels on board, driven by engines. Such a ferry-bridge used to cross the Itchen River, Hampshire, England. The chain pier of Brighton was erected in 1822. The chains of Hungerford Bridge, London, were moved to Clifton, near Bristol, and now span the Avon. The span is 720 feet; hight above water, 260 feet. See ferry-bridge. 2. An early (for Europe) form of the suspensionbridge in which catenary chains supported the floor. The first was erected over the Tees, in England, in 1741. Rods with eyes and connecting-links were used by Telford on the Menai Suspension Bridge, 1829; steel wires laid up (not twisted) into cabl
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
gland. r, Berlin and Potsdam, Prussia. s, London and Blackwall, England. t, Manchester and Birmingham, England. u, Saint-Etienne to Lyon, France. v, Wilmington and Susquehanna, United States. w, Great Western (Old), England. x, London and Croydon, England, which first dispensed Railway-rails. with longitudinal sleepers and chairs. y, Morris and Prevost, England. z, Birmingham and Gloucester, England. a′, London and Birmingham, England. b′, London and Brighton, England. c′, Midland counties, England. d′, contractor's rail. e′, street-car rail. f′, locomotive street-rail. g′, continuous rail. h′, tubular rail. j′, King's rail, with steel cap. k′, Potter's rail, with steel facing rolled in. l′, Hymer's rail, with a steel upper section, iron foot, and fish-plates. m′, Ashcroft's rail, with a steel tread and double foot. n′, Jones's rail, with a steel tread and forked foot. o′, Booth's rail, with a
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
nubePesth666451850Clarke. La Roche BernardVilaineLa Roche Bernard, France650.4501846Leblanc. NashvilleCumberlandNashville, Tenn650Foster. MenaiMenai StraitsWales570431826Telford. UnionTweedGreat Britain449301820Sir S. Brown. MontroseEsteScotland432421829Sir. S. Brown. HammersmithThamesLondon, England422.2529.51824Tierney Clarke. Albert 3 spans; 150, 400, 150.ThamesChelsea, England400 DanubeVienna33421.41828Von Mitis. ConwayArm of the seaWales32722.331826Telford. Chain PierBrighton, England255181823Sir S. Brown. InvalidesSeineParis236.526.331829Navier. Isle of Bourbon220.325.481823Brunel. DnieperKieff, Russia7 spans. Total length, 2,562 feet. Plate IX., page 519. Sus-pen′sion-drill. （Metal-working.) A vertical drilling-machine having a frame which may be bolted to the ceiling, so as to be out of the way. Useful in locomotive and boiler work, etc. Sus-pen′sion-hook. A portable hook to enable articles to be conveniently suspended from a nail. In the<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
ent over at top, and the two ends are connected by a block of wood which is hollowed out beneath so as to fit the rope, and pass over the suspension pulleys. The hourly delivery of stone at the station is ten tons, and the empty boxes are returned at the same rate as the full ones are delivered. Where the amount of freight to be accommodated is large, it is proposed to use a stout fixed rope to support the carriages and a lighter traveling rope to pull them. An elevated tramway at Brighton, England, on the Hodgson plan, is five miles long, and is capable of carrying each way one hundred and twenty tons per day of ten hours, two hundred and forty tons in all. When working to its full capacity both ways the loads on the opposite wires tend to counterpoise each other, and the expenditure of power is reduced to a minimum. Various other plans on the same general principle, but differing in detail, are in operation in various parts of the world. In some the rope supporting the carr