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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
horizontal rail and operated the bellows with their feet, as at F, Fig. 3425. It is said that half-notes were invented at Venice in the twelfth century, but the earliest authentic example of their introduction was in the Halberstadt organ, built about 1360. The invention of the pedal is claimed for Bernhard, a German organist to the doge of Venice, 1470-80. He probably made some improvement in that appendage, but it appears to have been in use nearly a century previous. The organ of Nuremberg had pipes from 16 to 32 feet long, A. D. 1468. In 1596, the organ of Breslau had most of the now known stops. It would seem that up to the fifteenth century organs were generally constructed by the monks, but about this period organ-builders by profession were to be found both in England and on the Continent. The earliest recorded in England was William Wotton, who, in 1587, agreed to make a pair of organs for Merton College, Oxford, for the sum of pound28. The German and Dutch b
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
hen subject to England, dated 1330. It has been claimed that linen paper was made in England as early as 1330, though it is supposed that no linen paper was made in Italy previous to 1367. In 1390, Ulman Strother established a paper-mill at Nuremberg in Bavaria, operated by two rollers, which set in motion eighteen stampers. This indicates the process of pulping the fiber by beating, which continued in use for nearly four centuries. This was the first paper-mill known to have been establisleep for a century, which might be a long sleep for anything else, but is for an invention only a reasonable nap. Sixteen or seventeen centuries elapsed between the double-cylinder fire-engine of Ctesibus of Alexandria and the similar engine of Nuremberg. The aeolipile of Hero is substantially analogous to the water-wheel of the worthy Dr. Barker, who left us a century back or thereabout, except that the fluid agent of one is steam and of the other water. The principle is the same, and the tur
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
Spin′ning-wheel. A machine consisting of a large wheel, band, and spindle, and driven by foot or by hand. The wool is carded into rolls, which are twisted, drawn, and wound a length at a time, the wheel being turned periodically to twist the yarn. It was the first great improvement upon spinning by a distaff and spindle. It appears to have been in use for many ages in Hindustan, but did not reach Europe before the sixteenth century. One account states that it was invented at Nuremberg about 1530: the statement is improbable. The accompanying cut is taken from an illuminated manuscript of the fourteenth century, in the British Museum (M. S. Reg. 10 E. IV.), and represents a lady spinning at her wheel. Spinning-wheel. The spindle is rotated in horizontal bearings, having a spool, over which the band from the larger wheel passes. A roving, being attached to the end of the spindle, is twisted as the latter revolves, the roving being allowed to slip between the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
ut little over an hour. Tin′sel. 1. A shining thin metallic plate. Foil. Somewhat allied to tinsel is the metallic dust, the invention of John Hautsch, of Nuremberg, 1595-1670. 2. (Fabric.) A cloth composed of silk and silver. A material with a superficial sheen and but little sterling value. Cloth overlaid with foihildren, taking a part in the work. The cheaper kinds, as Noah's arks, soldiers, tea-sets, etc., are principally produced in the vicinity of the Black Forest, Nuremberg being the principal depot. Sonneburg, in Thuringia, exports about 25,000 cwt. of the better class of wooden toys, made in the town and vicinity. Switzerlan. Men made in plaster are dispatched to us from Prussia, whilst leaden soldiers, measuring about an inch in hight, painted and heavily armed, come from Bavaria, Nuremberg, and Furth. Household utensils in china — such as pipkins, saucepans, cups and saucers, dolls' heads in china, games of lotto, penny watches, wooden wheelbarrow
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
to have originated some two centuries since. Hautsch, of Nuremberg, invented the mode of preparing the metallic dust, which rded locks were used by the Romans, as the keys found at Herculaneum and Pompeii sufficiently testify. The character of the by weights. The invention is said to have originated at Nuremberg, 1477; so that watches were formerly playfully called NurNuremberg animated eggs. The invention has also been claimed for Geneva. See also horological instruments. For early notf wire-making was performed by the hammer, the artists of Nuremberg were called wire-smiths; but after the invention of drawiory of Augsburg as early as the year 1351, and in that of Nuremberg in 1360; so that according to the best information I havelly indorse the ascription of the invention to Rodolph of Nuremberg, A. D. 1410, but he may have much improved the art; mills were erected in Nuremberg, 1563. The first wire-mill in England was erected at Mortlake, in 1663. a (Fig. 7262) shows
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