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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
ells are made at discretion in England, but in France are regarded with jealousy, and their use is oer for pumps. This was used by Dr. Papin of France about 1695, but had been described nearly two different sets of specific means. Amouton (France, 1699) had an atmospheric firewheel, or air-entillerie. He was preceptor to Louis XIII. of France, and ascribes the invention to a certain Marinof Lisieux, who presented one to Henry IV. of France, about A. D. 1600. An instrument of this kindblished in 1661, we find that Andrew Alciat of France had a kind of clock in his chamber that shouldetc., upon which experiments have been made in France, and which is said to render the metal more ho, Francis II., Charles IX., and Henry III. of France, and though a Protestant was concealed in the work of the kind ever projected originated in France. This was the aqueduct of Maintenon, which wayed against Constantinople.1453 Louis XI. of France has twelve cannon cast to throw metallic shot,[7 more...]
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
Ba-leine′. A movable scaffold, employed in France to facilitate the tipping of the wagons in rai feet. After this, balloon ascensions, both in France and England, became comparatively frequent. Tof ox-cart or wagon used by the early kings of France. The name survives in a modern European carby Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, in Campania; into France about 550. They were mentioned by Bede, and atick called the cue. It was invented either in France or Italy, probably during the sixteenth century patronized by Elizabeth and by Henry IV. of France. The former liked the stockings well enough, ing ma-chine′. Screws have been employed in France since 1844 for securing soles to shoes. Macosed protosilicate of iron used in England and France for this purpose. grout's cupola and blast-oved method, for some time then past in use in France and Belgium. The glass used upon the Exhibitire makes it highly suitable for millstones. France, Sardinia, and Germany yield the buhr-stone. [12 more...]<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
i-o-let. A vehicle for hire introduced from France into England in 1823. Shortened into cab (whiterranean, passes across the narrow portion of France north of the Pyrenees, and is 150 miles in lenith vapor. Carburetor. Lecarriere, in France, in February, 1853, began by carbureting hydrort was during the struggle between Prussia and France under Napoleon I. The generous ladies gave up er. The cider-mill (b) used in the South of France has a platform of boards framed together and ias presented by Pope Paul I. to Pepin, King of France, A. D. 760; was possibly a clepsydra. Pacifictury a pulsating regulator was introduced into France. A. D. 1364, Henry de Wyck, or de Vick, a Gin, and Portugal. They are known as sabots in France; galochas, tamancos, and zuecos in other parts in England and France. Red chalk is found in France. The holder is a porte-crayon. Crayons aose and fine texture, but liable to crack. In France an excellent crucible is made at Picardy of a [26 more...]
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
of from 4 to 6 inches, carefully rammed. In France the main dependence for tightness has been wor. It was invented by Hermann, and patented in France by him, June 3, 1854. He states that he makes1357 by the Lord Mayor of London, the Kings of France and Scotland being prisoners and the King of C810, and has been generally adopted throughout France and Holland, and partially in England. It is as is commonly the case in some houses of Northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Dor′noc This form of engine is extensively used in France, and the monster pumping-engines, with 144-incy at Villetaneuse, three miles from St. Denis, France, is rid of 16,000 gallons of fetid waste water(Drahzieher). The draw-plate was imported into France by Archal, and into England by Schultz (1565).altambor, becoming tambor in Spain, tambour in France. The native drums or tam-tams of the Asiatin, 1851, was the invention of Colonel Morin of France. To the shaft A is secured a pulley C, and [1 more...]
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
nd key; about the same time D'Alibard and others in France erected a pointed rod forty feet high at Marli, fors, England, in 1862, and was introduced at La Heve, France, a year or two later. The machines employed at eac pointer telegraphs have been devised by Breguet in France, Siemens and Halske and Kramer in Germany, and varibtful whether it would be possible to find, even in France, embroideries as beautiful and perfect as those som 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 o 1664. Aquatint engraving invented by St. Non of France, 1662. Engraving in steel introduced into England time. Originally made in England, but improved in France. Equa-tori-al. A telescope mounted to follow The practice adopted in the United States, in France, in England, and Holland is to mix such earth in si
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
Many attempts have been made in this direction in France, England, and the United States. Among these may bs a breech-loading arm of the time of Henry II. of France, prior to 1550, and a match-lock revolver of the saland adopts Snider's improvement on the Enfield. France, the Chassepot. Belgium, the Albini. Holland,hable sections. In 1699, a patent was granted in France to Duperrier for a pompe portative for extinguishinines, like the modern garden syringe, being used in France and Germany, and credited to Duperrier and Leupold n the time of Cortes. Italy led the way in Europe; France followed, and now leads. Fig. 2038 shows a Frenct the clocks presented by Pope Paul 1. to Pepin of France, A. D. 760, and to Charlemagne by the Caliph Haroun the king. A century after, they were not known in France or Sweden. Coryat, in his Crudities, 1611, says:by Louis Robert, of Essonne, and patented by him in France. He experienced some pecuniary difficulties, and s
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
f which three hundred were, in 1862, in use in France. The essential portions are a horizontal cyli. He regarded it as a sign of opulence. In France, church windows were generally glazed in the siamond weighed 136 carats; sold to the king of France for £ 125,000, in 1720. The Koh-i-noor was fod with a love-quarrel, in which Francis I. of France, 1520, wrote with a diamond set in a ring, oor the right hand, seems to have originated in France; Loudon (1844) speaks of it as an ordinary toorize farther, as the notices of water-mills in France, Bulgaria, Italy, and elsewhere, are numerous The flint-lock is said to have originated in France about 1635, and its general features do not ap78 In France, military purposes7512.512.5 In France, sporting781210 In France, blasting621820 InFrance, blasting621820 In Prussia, military purposes7513.511.5 Although the use of gunpowder in Europe can be traced backThurnagel in Germany; Thomassin and Leblanc in France; Firzoo in Russia. Dr. Gale has shown that [10 more...]
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
hire. It has two facing seats inside. They were introduced into France in 1650 (fiacre), and about the same time into England. They are mworth, of Manchester, England, has made No. 700, which was woven in France. He is stated to have reached No. 10,000, a fineness beyond all uss silk plush covering. The plush for this purpose is imported from France and Germany, the former of superior quality. The material is cut a. An artificial horn for lanterns was made some 70 years since in France, consisting of brass gauze dipped repeatedly in dissolved isinglassinated all he undertook. He was one of the emigrants driven from France at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and exchanged the friendsritten scale against the fluctuating column. The plan was tried in France by Bossuet over a century since, with a pipe about three miles longeaume's, the centigrade, etc. Beaumes, is in very general use in France and on the Continent of Europe. Its scale is based upon a solutio
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
r. Wells, author of the Essay on Dew; and soon afterward an attempt was made in France to employ it for the systematic manufacture of ice, but the undertaking proved nth century, hot shot being used as a substitute. About 1797, Chevallier, in France, invented an incendiary compound, which seems to have been tried to a limited ermerly much practiced in Italy during the Middle Ages, and is now carried on in France and elsewhere. It is executed in woods of different shades, the figures compriwas drawn. Neilson, of Glasgow, introduced the hot blast in 1828. Aubulot, in France, in 1811, and Budd, in England, in 1845, heated the blast by the escaping hot geriments in smelting with anthracite coal were tried at Mauch Chunk in 1820, in France in 1827, and in Wales successfully by the aid of Neilson's hot-blast ovens in 1gested by C. W. Williams. See bulkhead. Iron vessels for America, Ireland, France, India, and China were built in Scotland and on the Mersey, 1833-39. The iro
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), K. (search)
e. King-posts and trusses. A is a roof on the quay Jemappes, Paris. B is from the roof of the church of Lagorce, France, twelfth century. C is an ordinary barn-roof. D a Gothic roof. King-post truss. See King-post. King-post is thought to have originated in Scotland about A. D. 1500. It was in use for superior articles of house in England and France in the first half of the sixteenth century. Knitted silk stockings were worn by Henry II, of France, 1547, and by Queen France, 1547, and by Queen 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 idge, 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 t
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