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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), N. (search)
from 35 to 40 pounds per yard. Many engineers advocate a 3-feet gage or one even narrower for some purposes or localities. The narrowest in actual operation, so far as we are aware, only two feet, is the Portmadoc and Festiniog Railway in North Wales, through a very difficult country. This was originally designed as a tramway for the transportation of slate, stone, and other minerals from the hills of Merionethshire to the sea, but has since been used for passengers and general freight. Little wonder (Portmadoc and Festiniog Railway, South Wales). Fig. 3296 represents an engine, called the Little wonder, employed on this road. It weighs 19 1/2 tons, and was first tested by a train 854 feet in length, consisting of 90 slate and 7 passenger cars, weighing 75 tons, constituting in all a load of 94 1/2 tons, which it drew at a speed varying from 14 1/2 to 26 1/4 miles an hour. Some of the curves on this road have a radius of but 1 3/4 chains. It is stated that an engine
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ing-planks, as occasion requires. Plank′ing. 1. (Shipbuilding.) The skin or wooden covering of plank on the exterior and interior surfaces of the ribs and on the beams. A line of planking is a strake, and is named from its position; as, garboard-strake, bilge-strake, side-strake, shear-strake, etc. When the seam between two planks is straight, it is said to be fair-edged: when it is sloped, it is called anchor-stock or top and butt, according to the character of the sloping. Wales are strakes of thicker plank. The term is used in shipbuilding, and also in piling. See pile, page 1700. 2. (Spinning.) The splicing together of slivers of long-stapled wool. See breaking-machine. 3. (Steam.) The lagging or clothing of a steamcylinder. Cleading. Plank′ing-clamp. （Shipwrighting.) An implement for bending a strake against the ribs of a vessel and holding it till secured by bolts or treenails. In Fig. 3801 the chain-hooks catch against the ribs and af<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
f two or three miles, and intended to keep them clear of ice and snow. The first steel rail was made in 1857, by Mushet, at the Ebbw-Vale Iron Co.'s Works in South Wales. It was rolled from cast blooms of Bessemer steel and laid down at Derby, England, and remained sixteen years, during which time 250 trains and at least 250 deast few years a number of tracks have been laid of narrower gage even than this, varying from 3 feet even down to 1 foot 11 1/2 inches, as the Festiniog Railway in Wales. See Fig. 3296, page 1512. Mr. Fairlie, in a paper read before the British Association, asserts that the proportion of non-paying to paying weight which an engd thereon. The four principal ones were, — 1. Watling Street; from Kent, by way of London, to Cardigan Bay, in Wales. 2. Ikenild Street; from St. David's, Wales, by way of Birmingham, Derby, and York, to Tynemouth, England. 3. Fosse Way; from Cornwall to Lincoln. 4. Ermin Street; from St. David's to Southampton. I
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
on Machine. (continued). No.Name.Date. 42,976WalesMay 31, 1864. 50,451ChilcottOct. 17, 1865. 10he Marshfield Iron-Works, of Caermarthenshire, Wales, made a sheet of the same dimensions, weighings of Ybron, six miles southeast of Bangor in N. Wales, sixteen of these stages are in progress togeMauch Chunk in 1820, in France in 1827, and in Wales successfully by the aid of Neilson's hot-blastrks, England, and afterward of Merthyr Tydvil, Wales, and was designed to render clearly audible thvessel's side; reaching from stem to stern. Wales, in merchant-vessels, are strakes below the sheferring to a steamcar on rails, originated in Wales. The list of early inventors is about as follows: — Trevethick (Wales）1802Stephenson (England）1825 Blenkinsop (England）1811Stephenson (EnglandNashville, Tenn650Foster. MenaiMenai StraitsWales570431826Telford. UnionTweedGreat Britain44930enna33421.41828Von Mitis. ConwayArm of the seaWales32722.331826Telford. Chain PierBrighton, Engla[1 more.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
ta to Tripoli, Africa230335 1861*Tripoli, Africa, to Bengazi, Africa508420 1861*Bengazi, Africa, to Alexandria, Egypt59380 1861Dieppe, France, to Newhaven, England8025 1861*Toulon, France, to Corsica1951,550 1862Wexford, Ireland, to Aberman, Wales6350 1862Lowestoft, Eng., to Zandvoort, Holland12527 Date.FromLength in Miles.Greatest Depth in Fathoms. 1863*Cagliari, Sardinia, to Sicily2111,025 1864*Cartagena, Spain, to Oran, Africa1301,420 1864Gwadur, India, to Elphinstone Inlet, Ind very reluctantly gave up the idea of supporting it by chains. The most remarkable one ever constructed is that across the Menai Straits, on the Chester and Holyhead line of railway, and which unites the island of Anglesea with the mainland of Wales. Plate LXXII. is a general view of the Britannia Bridge from the Caernarvon side, showing also the Menai suspension-bridge. A mile distant from it is the famous Telford suspension-bridge, built in 1829 by that prince of road-makers. Telford
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
f the owners at the same time. The London and Blackwall Railway is built in the same manner upon a continuous series of brick arches. Its length is 3 miles 38 chains, and its cost £ 1,083,951. Remarkable viaducts are shown in the railway-bridges (so to call them) over the Susquehanna and many Southern rivers; the Ohio, at Louisville. In England: over the Avon, on the line of the London and Northwestern Railway: the Victoria Bridge, over the valley of the Wear: the Crumlin Viaduct, in Wales. In France: over the Monie, near Nantes. In Holland: over rivers and dieps. In India: over the Ganges. See bridge; trestle; truss; wooden bridge; etc. Vi′al. A small, long bottle. Vi-a-tom′e-ter. A way-measurer, as its name indicates. See odometer; pedometer. Vi′brat-ing-pis′ton steam-en′gine. One in which the power is communicated to the crank through pistons which are vibrating in their motion, and which move through an arc of a circle. Vibrating-piston engi
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
together, after the antient custome, that King's palaces were used to be built. So the King of Wales, by name Heolus Wha, in the year of our Lord 940, built a house of white twigs, to retire into when he came a hunting into South Wales; therefore it was called Ty Gwyn, that is, the White house. For to the end that it might be distinguished from vulgar buildings, he caused the twigs (according uilt that small castle of twigs and slight turf. — Sammes. Wattled chimneys still occur in Wales; the stick chimneys, so common in the early log-cabins of our country, are very similar. The donus of the Middle Ages. The ancient wedges were of holm, laurel, or elm. A Roman wedge found in Wales had a square perforation through which a handle was thrust to hold it, while it was being drivening. CatalpaCatalpa bignonoidesEastern U. S.White, lasting. Posts. CedarCedrela australisNew S. WalesSoft. Furniture and small cabinet-work. Cedar (bastard)Libacedrus decurrensS. California. Ced
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Ohio Volunteers. (search)
Duty at Corinth till April, 1863. Raid to Tupelo, Miss., December 13-19, 1862, and January 3-19, 1863. Raid to intercept Forest January 2-3. Cornersville Pike January 28 (Detachment). Dodge's Expedition to Northern Alabama April 15-May 8. Great Bear Creek April 17. Rock Cut, near Tuscumbia, April 22. Tuscumbia April 23. Town Creek April 28. Moved to Pocahontas June 3, and duty there till October 29. March to Pulaski October 29-November 10. Duty at Pulaski, Wales, Sam's Mills and Nancy's Mills (Headquarters at Pulaski) till March, 1864. Moved to Lynnville March 5, and to Pulaski April 19. March to Chattanooga, Tenn., April 29-May 4. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May to September. Demonstrations on Resaca May 8-12. Snake Creek Gap and Sugar Valley, near Resaca, May 9. Near Resaca May 13. Battle of Resaca May 14. Lay's Ferry, Oostenaula River, May 14-15. Rome Cross Roads May 16. Advance on Dallas May 18-25. Operations on line
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 2: (search)
ancy. Lieutenant Cameron, however, soon after returned home, and joined his company at Fortress Monroe. Company B, Light Infantry, Easton. Officers: Milo M. Williams, captain; Linton Waldron and William E. Bump, Jr., lieutenants,—all of Easton. Company C, Light Infantry, Braintree. Officers: Cephas C. Bumpus, captain; James T. Stevens and Isaac P. Fuller, lieutenants,—all of Braintree. Company D, Light Infantry, Randolph. Officers: Horace Niles, captain; Otis S. Wilbur and H. Frank Wales, lieutenants,—all of Randolph. Company E, Light Infantry, South Abington. Officers: Charles F. Allen, captain; Lewis Soule and John W. Mitchell, lieutenants,—all of South Abington. Company F, Warren Light Guards, Foxborough. Officers: David L. Shepard, captain; Moses A. Richardson and Carlos A. Hart, lieutenants,—all of Foxborough. Company G, Light Infantry, Taunton. Officers: Timothy Gordon, captain; Zaccheus Sherman and Frederick A. Harrington, lieutenants,—all of Taunton.
Allan Pinkerton, The spy in the rebellion; being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion, revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public, compiled from official reports prepared for President Lincoln , General McClellan and the Provost-Marshal-General ., Chapter 11: (search)
oom for you. On his way down the river Webster found, to his relief, that the man with the broad-brimmed hat was not aboard the boats. He now had a hope of being able to give his shadow the slip by leaving Memphis on early train in the morning. Arriving in sight of their destination, the passengers on the ferry-boat were surprised to see that the levee was crowded with people. Shortly after, they learned that this unusual gathering was caused by the capture of the steamboat Prince of Wales by the rebels. Webster went to the Worsham Hotel, where he spent the night, and at five o'clock in the morning, after making a few preparations, and dispatching an early breakfast, he repaired to the depot. Arriving there he looked carefully about on all sides, but saw no one who seemed to take any interest in his movements. So far, so good, he muttered, as he boarded the train; and the next minute he was leaving the scene of his most recent exploits with the speed of the wind. He w
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