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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 456 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 154 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 72 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 64 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 58 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 54 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 44 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 40 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 38 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 36 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
to the S. S. E., and is 1,000 yards long. Wings at each end form angles of 135°, and are each 350 yards in length. A surface of 1,120 acres is protected. It is 133 yards wide at bottom, 15 at top: a set-off 22 yards wide forms a foreshore on the sea side. The upper portion is revetted with masonry laid in Roman cement on both faces and crown. The hight of the latter is 2 feet above high-water spring-tides. 4,105,920 tons of stone were used in the construction. Cost, $7,500,--000. Delaware Breakwater is situated just inside of Cape Henlopen, the southwestern point of land at the entrance of Delaware Bay, and was intended to form a harbor of refuge during storms for vessels passing along the coast. The work was commenced in 1829. It consists of two parts, the breakwater proper and the ice-breaker. The former is 1,203 yards long, extending in an E. S.E., and W. N.W. direction. The ice-breaker is designed to protect the harbor from floating ice brought down by the Delaware R
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
above the surface of the river, and afterwards by another aqueduct 1,188 feet in length, and emerges into the Hudson at Albany. The widest are the Cornwall, Beauharnois, and Lachine (Canada), being respectively 12, 11, and 8 1/2 miles long, and 150, 190, and 120 feet wide. Each has a depth of 10 feet, and locks 200 feet long, respectively 55, 45, and 55 feet wide. The most costly per mile is the Lachine (Canada), 8 1/2 miles long, cost $2,000,000; $235,934 per mile. The Chesapeake and Delaware cost $203,703 per mile. The cheapest per mile is the Ohio and Erie, 307 miles long, $15,300 per mile. The greatest number of locks are on the Schuylkill Canal, 108 miles long, 120 locks. The Welland (Canada), 36 miles long, admits vessels of a tonnage of 500 tons. The locks have double the capacity of any other. Cost, $7,000,000. The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, thus uniting the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and saving the immense detour around the continen
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
sion engine1778 WattEnglishArrangement of connecting-rod, crank, and fly-wheel1780 WattEnglishDouble engine1781 WattEnglishSun and planet motion1781 JouffroyFrenchSteamboat (Suone）1781 RumseyAmericanSteamboat (hydraulic propeller, Potomac）1782 WattEnglishSteam-driven tilt-hammer1783 EvansAmericanSteam-carriage1783 WattEnglishParallel motion1784 MurdochEnglishSteam-carriage1784 BramahEnglishRotatory engine on screw-propeller shaft1785 FitchAmericanSteamboat (reciprocating paddles, Delaware）1786 MillerEnglishSteamboat (paddle-wheels）1787 SymingtonScotchSteamboat (side paddle-wheels, Dalswinton）1788 SymingtonScotchSteamboat (middle paddle-wheels, Forth and Clyde Canal）1789 EvansAmericanStern-wheel (Schuylkill）1789 FitchAmericanSteamboat (screw-propeller, New York）1789 TrevethickWelshLocomotive (high pressure）1802 SymingtonScotchSteamboat ( Charlotte Dundas )1802 FultonAmericanSteamboat (side-paddles, Seine）1803 EvansAmericanSteam-dredge1803 FultonAmerican
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
way and 230 feet of bridges, was constructed in seven and a half days; and near Big Shanty 35 1/2 miles of permanent way and 455 feet of bridges, in thirteen days. The following are the dimensions of some of the best known timber bridges:— Widest Arch. Name.River.Place.Curve.Architect.Date. Span.Rise. Ft.Ft. In. ColopusSchuylkillPhiladelphia34020 0SegmentWernwag1813 PiscataquaPiscataquaNew Hampshire25027 4SegmentPalmer1794 BambergRegnitzGermany20817 4SegmentWiebeking1809 TrentonDelawarePennsylvania20032 0SegmentBurr1804 WrittenghenRhineSwitzerland19830 10SegmentGrubenmann1777 Pont LouisIserFreysingen15413 6SegmentWiebeking1809 Ellicott's MillsPatapscoMaryland15020 0LatticeUnknown1838 Erie RailwayPortageNew York (1,000 ft long)Trestle Foundry-barrow. Wood′en-frame Bar′row. One with an iron box, for foundry purposes. Wood-en-grav′ing. Wood-engraving, or the making of woodcuts, differs from plate-engraving in the fact that the design in the former is in