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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 24, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
rail (g), 1810. Losh and Stephenson's flanged rail (h), 1816. This was a lapping continuous rail. Hawk's cast-iron face upon a wrought-iron base. 1817. Birkenshaw's malleable face upon a cast base, 1820. Birkenshaw, of Bedlington, Durham, invented the rolled rail; the iron, while hot, being passed between grooved rollers of the required pattern (i j k l). m n o p are respectively the Spanish, Marseilles, Strasburg, and Great Western (England) patterns. q, Durham and Sunderland, England. 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 Brig
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
See sluice. Tide-di′al. See tide-gage. Tide-gage. Used in harbors to measure the rise and fall of the tides. A common form consists of a graduated spar, 24 feet long, and having boxes at the side, in which is a float with an elevated stem. The spar is secured to a pier or quay, or is anchored in a frame and secured to a pier or quay, or is anchored in diameter, and is supported by a cork of 3 inches cube. The stem is guided by staples in the spar. The tide-gage at Sunderland, England, invented by Mr. Meik, engineer of that harbor, is self-registering, and shows to mariners the depth of water on the bar at all stages of the water. A well is sunk beneath the building containing the apparatus, its bottom being on a level with that of the entrance to the channel. This contains a pipe, open to the water, and containing a float over which passes a copper wire cord conducted over a spiral cone turning on an axis in an upper story of the building. At the opposite end