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Palmetto (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
VI. 210, 234, XIII. 117; g, II. 21. Hemp, flax, etc., b.Oak, c. Hemp, jute, dressed, b.Oakum, c. Hibiscus esculentus, b; c; e, VI. 249, 283, VIII. 126, XIV. 19, XVII. 171.Okra (Hibiscus esculentus), b. Orache, d. Osier, a. Hides, c.Onocarpus, batava, e, XIV. 17. Hollyhock, c.Palm, dwarf, c. Hop bark, d.Palm, leaves, a. Hop vines, a; d; e, VII. 77, XIII. 117, XVII. 171.Palm palmetto, etc., b; e, XIII 117, XIV. 17; f, XIV. 296; g, II. 113. Hornet's nest, c. Horse-chestnut leaves, d.Palmetto and chamoerops (palmetto cabbage), b. Horse-dung, a. Horse-radish, a.Palygaleae, a. Immortelle (cudweed, Gnaphalium), e, VI. 248.Pampas grass, a. Panax, a. Indian-corn husks, d.Pandanus, a. Iris, a.Pappus, c. Ivory shavings, b; c.Papyrus, a; f, XV. 162. Indigo, e, XIII 117.Pasteboard scraps, c. Jucca (Yucca), e, XIII. 126.Peas, b. Juncaceae, a.Pea stalks, a; e, XIII 117. Juniper, a.Peat, a; b; d Jute, a; e, VI. 234, XIV. 17, XVII. 171; f, XIV. 17, 354; g, II. 129.Pederia foetida
Harlem River (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
open. q is flexible coupling shown in three views. The Croton aqueduct pipe, which carries the water across the Harlem River, is 850 feet long, and is cast in 8-foot lengths, which are united by hollow ball-and-socket joints. r is formed by pexible string of pipes, which sank and rested upon the river-bottom as the boat progressed. The depth of water in the Harlem River where the pipe lies is 40 feet. The water-mains of London are or were united by cylindrical, turned joints, a littliple; it is one span of several across the Missouri River. e is a bridge on the bowstring principle across the Harlem River, New York. Plate XLI. is a view of the Swing Bridge of the Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Cologne Railway, over the Yssel nearlan has been constructed for some distance under Broadway, New York, the intention being to extend it from the Battery to Harlem. For a number of years past the telegraph-offices of London have communicated with the central office by pneumatic tub
Dog River (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
uddha, the Enlightened, who raised his protest against Brahmanic intolerance on the plains of Nepal some twenty-four centuries since. The formula is from the Sanscrit, which had ceased to be a spoken language in the time of Alexander of Macedon. Its metaphor has been diligently resolved by Klaproth, and, being rendered into English, it means, O that I may attain perfection and be absorbed in Buddha! Amen. The invading hosts of the Chaldeans left their pictured records on the rocks of Dog River, the ancient Lycus, in Palestine, which here impinges against one of the lofty and abrupt spurs of the mountains of Lebanon. These figures of men are ascribed to the time of Sesostris, and are associated with more recent inscriptions in Persian, Greek, Latin, and Arabic, indicating the presence of the various conquering races by which that country has been suc- cessively subjugated. Central Asia contains memorials of conquerors of various dynasties. c, Fig. 3611, is a portion of an i
Plank (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
s of medicine. Some pill-boxes are made from scaleboard covered with paper. Plank have been cut into scales 120 to the inch, but 130 of an inch is a more usual t. It is not certain that the planisphere in another apartment is so modern. Plank. 1. A board more than nine inches in width. 2. The board of a petard. iners, and others shift their runs or wheeling-planks, as occasion requires. Plank′ing. 1. (Shipbuilding.) The skin or wooden covering of plank on the exteri. 3. (Steam.) The lagging or clothing of a steamcylinder. Cleading. Plank′ing-clamp. （Shipwrighting.) An implement for bending a strake against the screw acting on the plank. Machine for sizing and planking hat-bodies. Plank′ing-ma-chine′. A machine in which hat-bodies, after being formed, are rubbednes of which are counterweighted and vertically adjustable. See hardening. Plank′ing-screw. An implement for straining planks against the ribs of vessel
Sydenham (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 16
a tank, water is made to circulate through the jackets by the action of the pump n, whose piston-rod is also connected with the driving-shaft. See also pages 28-30, Vol. I. Pneu-mat′ic Rail′way. A railroad whose rolling stock is driven by the compression or exhaustion of air in a tube laid parallel to the track. The plan has a number of variations, which are considered under atmospheric Railway. Medhurst's plan (1810-12), and the one adopted in the Crystal Palace Railway, Sydenham, England, was to run the car on rails laid in the tube, a fringe on the carriage acting as a packing to keep the air from passing the carriage, which thus forms a piston in the tube. The plan adopted by Pinkus Clegg, and others, was to have a traveling piston connected by a colter with the carriage, the colter displacing a continuous valve which occupied a slot in the whole length of the pipe's upper surface. Pilbrow's plan was a traveling piston having a rack on its side operating in s
Lambeth (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 16
th century, but the invention of casting glass to form plates is due to Abraham Thevart. In the year 1688, plates 84 × 50 inches were cast by his process at St. Gobin, in Picardy. A plate-glass manufactory on a small scale was established at Lambeth in 1673, but the manufacture does not appear to have flourished in England until it was undertaken by the British Plate-Glass Company, chartered by act of Parliament in 1773. Their works at Ravenshead, Lancashire, are still in operation. Theis held to have been equal in quality to its Italian progenitor, but inferior in its ornamentation, apparently vying with China in its peculiar and almost grotesque modes of representing natural objects. See Porce-lain. The potteries of Lambeth, London, were started by men from Holland, about 1640. The potteries of Staffordshire soon took the preeminence. John Wedgwood was born at Burslem, England, in 1730, and after a variety of experiences such as would sadden and kill an average m
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
was brought from Paris by Mohammed Effendi, in 1721; the first press in Annapolis, Md., was in 1726; Williamsburg, Va., 1729; Charleston, S. C., 1730; Newport, R. I., 1732; Halifax, N. S., 1751; Newbern, N. C., 1755; Portsmouth, N. H., 1756; Savannah, Ga., 1763; Quebec, Canada, 1764. The first press west of the Alleghany range was in Cincinnati, 1793. The first press west of the Mississippi, in St. Louis, 1808. Stereotyping was invented by William Ged of Edinburgh, in 1725; inking-rollersscrew astern. In 1802, Symington's double boat, Charlotte Dundas, was propelled by one middle paddle-wheel abaft the engine and working in the space between the twin boats. Fulton's and Bell's steamboats had side paddle-wheels, as also the Savannah, 1819, Enterprise, 1825, Great Western and Sirius, 1838. The Great Britain, 1843, had a screw, and after this the screw became common. See paddle-wheel. The term propeller is usually applied to the longitudinal revolving shaft with vanes o
Newbury, Orange County, Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
831. J. J. Jaquir obtained a patent for making continuous paper with wire-marks similar to hand-made paper. Edward Pine, of Troy, and E. N. Fourdrinier patented apparatus for cutting continuous paper into lengths; and Turner, a strainer designed to supersede the agitating vat of the Fourdrinier machine. Carvil, of Manchester, Conn., patented a screen with fans; and John Ames, of Springfield, Mass., introduced a wire cylinder for the purpose of cleansing rags. 1832. James Sawyer, of Newbury, Vt., invented a piston pulpstrainer; John Ames, a sizing-machine. 1852. G. W. Turner, London, England. Improved mode of applying an endless wire-web in a paper-machine; also, mode of passing the paper through a trough of size between two endless felts. 1853. Brown and McIntosh, Aberdeen, Scotland. Hollow perforated mold, covered with felt, to which the pulp is caused to adhere by rarefaction of the contained air. 1853. Machine patented in England for preparing wood for making paper
Arabian Gulf (search for this): chapter 16
m on the monuments of Thebes, busy with one pen at work, and the other placed in that most ancient pen-rack, behind the ear. Such is represented in a painting at Beni Hassan. It is said that the best reeds for the purpose formerly grew near Memphis, on the Nile; near Cnidus of Caria, in Asia Minor; in Armenia and in Italy: those of the latter being of relatively poor quality. A place yet famous for them, and which may have supplied the ancient demand in part, is in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf, in a large fen or tract of soggy land supplied with water by the river Helle, a place of Arabia formed by united arms of the Euphrates and Tigris. They are cut in March, tied in bundles, laid six months in a manure-heap, where they assume a beautiful color, mottled yellow and black. （Chardin.) Tournefort saw them growing in the neighborhood of Teflis in Georgia. Miller describes the cane as growing no higher than a man, the stem three or four lines in thickness, and solid from one kno
Lyons (France) (search for this): chapter 16
of Siam published 200 years since, describes a machine of this kind used in descending hights. It was not employed in Europe till 1783, when M. le Normand proved its efficacy by letting himself from the windows of a lofty house in the city of Lyons. Blanchard, in a balloon ascension in August, 1785, let down a dog from a great hight by means of a parachute, without injury. He afterward applied it to descending from a balloon, in 1793, but, the machine failing to expand fully, he broke hItaly, in 1444. Seven of them bore inscriptions in Latin and one in Etruscan. The civil, criminal, and ceremonial laws of the Greeks were engraved on bronze tables. The speech of Claudius, on the same alloy, is preserved in the town hall of Lyons, France. The pacts between the Romans, Spartans, and Jews were written on brass. In many cabinets in Europe are discharges of Roman soldiers written on copper plates. The laws of the twelve tables at Rome were inscribed on oaken boards; then tra
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