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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
music, as far as any master shall be able to play them upon the organ, harpsichord, etc. (Phil. Tran., 1747.) Creed invented a machine for this purpose in England in 1747; Hennersdorf of Berlin, one in the following year. John Freke in England, Unger and Hohlfield in Prussia, worked at the idea. Unger formed a part of the harpsichord. The device of Hohlfield was attachable to any instrument. Descriptions were transmitted to the Academy of Berlin in 1752, and published in Brunswick in 1774.Unger formed a part of the harpsichord. The device of Hohlfield was attachable to any instrument. Descriptions were transmitted to the Academy of Berlin in 1752, and published in Brunswick in 1774. Mus′ket. （Fire-arms.) The fire-arm of the infantry soldier. It superseded the arquebus, on which it was an improvement. Formerly, smoothbore and muzzle-loading, modern progress has improved it into the rifled breech-loader of the present. See fire-arms. Mus′ket-oon. A short musket used by cavalry and artillery previous to the introduction of breechloaders. Mus′lin. （Fabric.) A bleached or unbleached thin white cotton cloth, unprinted and undyed; finer than calico.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ch is filtered and evaporated in a porcelain dish to 2/3 its original volume; when cool, ammonia is added, and the liquid put away in closed vessels. For use, 100 grammes of oxide of silver are dissolved in 1 kilogramme of the above solution, three liters of water are added, and the whole is digested at a low heat. A battery is employed for causing precipitation of the metallic silver on the article to be coated. Nitrate of silver and alcoholic solution of tannin have been employed by Unger for silvering glass and porcelain. Cimeg's process consists in moistening the cleansed glass with a solution of 1 part Rochelle salts (tartrate of soda and potassa) in 200 parts of water, and afterward pouring on it a solution containing nitrate of silver 20, Rochelle salts 40 parts, which is allowed to flow uniformly over the glass; the plate is then kept in a horizontal position for one half-hour, when it is washed; when dry, the silver is coated with a varnish composed of gumdammar, 20
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
. It came so sharply that he was on the point of asking the driver to stop; but he was shortly relieved, and went on. At Cannes he met Lord Brougham and Baron Bunsen, Bunsen made a long call on him, in which Sumner was struck by his learning and humanity.—both anticipating his arrival with most cordial notes of invitation. He made pauses at Genoa, Pisa, Lucca, and Florence, At Florence, where he remained ten days, he was entertained at the British Legation, and by M. Francois Sabatier-Unger at the Villa Concezione, to whom he had been commended by Mr. Gordon. Besides visits to the churches and galleries, he took much interest in Mr. Jarves's collection, which he hoped could be secured for Boston. and reached Naples by steamer from Leghorn, April 9. He remained there ten days, visiting places of interest in company with Mr. George Bemis, of Boston, whom he found unexpectedly at the Hotel Victoria. They made visits to the museum and to several churches,—San Filippo Neri, Santa
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
rm continued, and the trains were delayed by icy mountain roads, byways having been chosen, instead of following the great turnpike, to conceal the movement. As the trains could not get up, the troops were forced to pass the night of the 2d near Unger's, without rations and many of them without covering. On the morning of the 3d the wagons came up, and after a short delay for cooking and eating, the march was resumed. Later that day snow and sleet set in, adding to the discomfort of the army of January 7, 1862, was one long to be remembered by even Jackson's hardy and much enduring soldiery. The march could not be continued until the horses were rough shod, and Jackson, ever impatient of delay, was forced to remain for some days at Unger's for this purpose. The day that Jackson retired from Hancock, January 7th, a detachment of the Federal troops at Romney, taking the road to Winchester, fell on a body of some 700 Virginia militia, under Colonel Monroe, with Sheets' company of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Historical sketch of the Rockbridge artillery, C. S. Army, by a member of the famous battery. (search)
sumed our march, going seven miles in the same direction, and the roads were by this time hard frozen, and the cold wind was in our faces. We passed that night at Unger's store, at the place where the road we were following in the direction 10 Bath, crossed the road leading from Martinsburg to Romney. The hill-side was so steep ioubles, as every horse in our battery was smooth-shod. The infantry of our brigade remained in our rear till we passed Bath, when they filed by us on their way to Unger's store, where they and we expected to encamp that night. Our march was very wearisome to men and horses. The men of each detachment were compelled to assist there up and stirring early, for our haversacks had been emptied the night before, and our wagons, with tents and commissary stores and bedding, had all gone ahead to Unger's cross-roads, where we had expected to spend the night. Many of us will not forget the sad plight of our horses which daylight revealed. Our blacksmith, Hetteri
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Empty Menaces. (search)
00 infantry, sixty cavalry and two pieces of artillery, besides additional forces and cannon at Hancock, on the Maryland side of the river. Here was a formidable force of near 14,000 men in these two counties, besides large reinforcements at hand from Cumberland, Piedmont, and Williamsport. Gen. Jackson's first march was to Morgan, from which county he promptly expelled the invaders, as we have heretofore detailed in our paper. After effectually accomplishing this work, he returned to Unger's — a point equidistant from Winchester and Martinsburg, and about thirty miles from Romney. Whilst reposing there a day or two to rest his fatigued soldiers, and to prepare for insure operations, the alarm already produced by his vigorous movements and the terror of his name caused the enemy in great haste to evacuate Romney and retire into Maryland; and thus in ten days, without the necessity of fighting a battle, and after a few shots from pickets and ambuscades of the enemy, this formid
The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], The sequestration law. (search)
uit of the Confederates after the battle of Somerset, have not yet been heard from; but it is supposed that they will occupy Monticello, a town in Wayne county, about 100 miles South of Frankfort. A dispatch from Frederick states that it was reported there yesterday that a portion of Gen. Jackson's command made another demonstration on Dam No. 5 on Sunday, but advices from Hancock of that date make no mention of such movement. The main body of Gen. Jackson's force is reported to be at Unger's, 12 miles North of Martinsburg.--Gen. Kelly has left Cumberland for Wheeling, the condition of his wound precluding all hope of recovery. A dispatch from St. Louis states that Gen. Halleck has issued an order requiring all the newly-elected officers of the Chamber of Commerce and the Mercantile Library Association of that city, to take the oath of allegiance, or else vacats their positions. All persons hereafter displaying the Confederate flag are to be arrested and subjected to pu
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
Captains, &c. I will forward a description list. We engaged them with four hundred cavalry. Our infantry were not near enough to support the cavalry, and the enemy were retiring. We have in all seventy-five prisoners, and killed thirteen of the enemy. We lost two men and six horses at their first fire. I led the charge in person. It was a complete surprise. Col. Carroll, commanding the 5th or 8th Ohio, made a very daring and successful reconnaissance immediately afterwards, to Unger's store. Major Frothingham is entitled to great credit for building, under my direction, in four hours in the dead of night, a complete bridge across the Great Cacapon, at an unfrequented mountain road. Two columns of 2,000 men each, marched thirty-two miles--one column forty-three miles--since 4 P. M. yesterday, besides bridging the river. We made a move and occupied the Bloomery Gap and Point Mills east, on the belief (by information obtained from deserters) that General Casson's br