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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
r the solstices and equinoxes. Their day had sixteen hours, commencing at sunrise. The Peruvians had also their sun-dials. One in Quito, in the form of an obelisk in the center of a circle on which was marked an east and west line, indicated the equinox. These were destroyed by the ignorant Spaniards, who thought them idolatrous. Their ancestors had stared with the same stupid amazement at the Saracenic armils and observatories. Dials were placed in the gardens of the Tuileries and Luxembourg, so arranged as to fire a cannon at noon. A mortar is placed on the meridian line of the dial, with a burning lens placed over the touchhole at such a distance and angle that as soon as the sun arrives on the meridian its rays, concentrated by the lens, set fire to the powder, the explosion of which announces the hour of noon. We take no note of time but from its loss; To give it then a tongue is wise in man. The voice is rather more energetic than anything which melancholy Young
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
other purposes. His claim to priority was disputed, and it was stated to have been invented in 1620 by Francois of Rouen, where the business was carried on by father and son till the death of the latter, in 1748. Wooden blocks for printing the patterns in size were exhibited during the dispute. Nemetz describes the manufacture of wax-cloth hangings with wool chopped and beat fine to one Andrau, a Frenchman, early in the eighteenth century. This artist was inspector of the palace of Luxembourg, was celebrated for his arabesque and grotesque paintings, and had a manufactory of hangings in the palace. Savary, in his Dictionary of commerce, states that flockhangings were first made at Rouen, but they do not appear to have had a paper backing. In the early part of the eighteenth century paper-hanging was of such poor quality as only to be used in houses of inferior class, but toward the end of that century the manufacture had attained excellence, and the best mansions were decor