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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 116 0 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 40 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 28 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. 22 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 20 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 18 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 16 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 16 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 14 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 12 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
he ferrule is a little larger than the bore of the tube, and when driven in it compresses the tube forcibly against the sides of the hole in the tube-sheet, making a steam-tight joint. 2. A metallic ring or sleeve on the handle of a tool or the end of a stick, to keep the wood from splitting. Ferry-boats. Fer′ry-boat. （Vessel.) A vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river or estuary. a, an elevation of the steam ferry-boat for ordinary travel crossing the Missouri River at Omaha. b is a plan-view of the same, showing the single wheel amidship, the engines and boilers. d is a transverse vertical section of the same, showing the cabins over the guards. e is a transverse vertical section of a ferry-boat for railway-cars at La Chine, river St. Lawrence. It has side-wheels and a track amidship. c is a plan-view of the same. Fer′ry-bridge. A form of ferry-boat in which the railway-train moves on to the elevated deck, is transported across t<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
latform. Piv′ot-bridge. One form of swing-bridge, which moves on a vertical pivot beneath its midlength. Pivot-bridges. Fig. 3775 shows a number of forms of drawbridges. a is a swinging span made up of panels of trusses. b is a span on the Bollman principle across the Mississippi at Quincy, Illinois. c is a pivot-bridge of the New York Central Railway on the Linville principle. d is a swinging bridge on the Linville principle; 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 near Westervoort, in Holland. It shows the swinging span, gatekeeper's house, land spans for carrying off water at spring floods, ice-breakers in the stream and on the lowlands. In the distance are the dunes of the coast. Piv′ot-broach. （Watchmaking.) A fine broach or tool for opening the pivo<