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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
he bore. Bullets. The rifle was introduced by Koller, a gunsmith of Nuremberg, about the beginning of the 16th century, and the increased accuracy given by this species of arm was soon appreciated; and from the fact of a troop of horse known as Carabins having been armed with them, the weapon itself was subsequently called carbine. The round ball, however, still held its place until very recently, both for rifled and smooth-bore guns; and it was not until the wars of the French in Algeria, subsequent to 1830, that experiments on an extended scale were made as to the practicability of using that form of projectile, the pointed and elongated, which both mathematics and common-sense showed to be best adapted to both accuracy and long range. Among the first of the improved balls was the Brunswick (a, Fig. 969), which had a circumferential belt, and was adapted for a two-grooved rifle. b b is the Delvigne, adapted for a sub-caliber powderchamber, and resting by an annular s
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
coals on. 3. A sled or low-wheeled wagon in a mine, to convey coal or ore from the miners to the bottom of the shaft. Cork. The bark of the evergreen oak (Quercus suber). It grows in the South of France, in Tuscany, Spain, Portugal, and Algeria. The tree sheds its abundant bark naturally, but this produce is valueless commercially. The cork-tree at the age of twenty-five years is barked for the first time. A circular incision is first made through the bark near the ground, and ano, roofs for houses, lining for garden-walls, and fences for poultry-yards; in Turkey, cabins for the cork-cutters and coffins for the dead; in Italy, images and crosses, pavements along the via crucia, and buttresses for the village churches; in Algeria, shoes and wearing-apparel, saddles and horseshoes, armor and boats, landmarks and fortifications, furniture in mansions, racks in stables, and steps for houses. Its use for floats, shoe-soles, wads for howitzers, bungs, stoppers, hat foundatio
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
m, the size of the magnified figure depending on the distance the instrument is placed from the wall. The room is darkened, usually by a perforated shutter n o. This instrument has been now generally superseded by the Oxyhy-Drogen microscope (which see). So′lar Tel′e-graph. A telegraph in which the rays of the sun are projected from and upon mirrors. The duration of the rays makes the alphabet, after the system of Morse. It was proposed to apply it to the use of the French army in Algeria, the posts to be established at twenty leagues from each other. See heliotrope. Solder. A metal or alloy used to unite adjacent metallic edges or surfaces. It must be rather more fusible than the metal or metals to be united, and with this object the components and their relative amounts are varied to suit the character of the work. Brass is united with brass only by pewter. —Lucretius, Book VI: Solders are distinguished by specific names, defining quality, composition, or pu<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
$1.20 per gross. Those of porcelain are manufactured in Germany, the finer kinds being ornamented by painting, which is in some cases of a very artistic order, commanding a high price. Red-clay pipes, with wide mouths, are made in Turkey and Algeria. Some are ornamented by stamping, and others are gilded with arabesque designs. The stems are of cherry or jessamine, with amber mouth-pieces, and the whole affair is often elaborately ornamented. The bookah, or nargilch, has a very large bowl, generally provided with a water-chamber, and may have several long flexible tubes, so as to accommodate a number of smokers at the same time. These are made in Turkey and Algeria, and often have richly carved bowls of solid silver. The so-called brier-root pipes should be, as their name imports, made from the root of the brier, which is peculiarly incombustible and enduring, but in fact many other species of wood are employed. These are manufactured in Germany and France, particular