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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 5 5 Browse Search
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) 2 2 Browse Search
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 1 1 Browse Search
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H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 1 1 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad-ties, etc. A lever-jack. Cue. A staff with whose end the billiard ball is struck. It is usually shot with vulcanite or leather. This end is known as the tip. Cui-rass′. An armor for the body; formerly of leather, but now of metal. It consists of a breast and a back plate, lapping on the shoulders and buckled together beneath the arms. It succeeded the hauberk, or coat-of-mail, and the hacqueton, or padded leather jacket, about 1350. It has survived all other forms of defensive armor for the body, being yet in use in the heavy cavalry of some European armies. The surcoat or jupon, which usually covered the former styles of armor, was laid aside about the time the cuirass was adopted, say the reign of Edward III. The early cuirass of the Greeks was of linen, which was afterwards covered with plates of horn or scales of horse-hoofs. The Roxalani wore leather with thin plates of iron. The Persians wore a similar
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
usia, and Estramadura. The lambs come in January, and shearing commences the 1st of May, being carried on in houses where the flocks of sheep are folded on their northern march. 125 men shear 1,000 ewes per day, 50 weathers per man being considered a day's work. The ewes yield from 4 to 5 pounds of wool, the weathers from 7 to 8. The wool of each sheep is sorted into four varieties. The carcass is but little esteemed. The institution of the mesta dates from the time of the plague in 1350, when whole provinces were nearly depopulated and vast estates became ownerless. The proprietors of neighboring estates combined to throw the unoccupied tracts into a common pasture on which they herded sheep according to an agreed ratio. Free passage is allowed to the flocks through the cultivated territories, and great hardship results. The power of this tyrannical corporation was somewhat reduced by the French, during their temporary occupancy of the country, 1808 – 12; a better legac
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), N. (search)
center-post of a winding stairs is a solid newel. Winding stairs around a central well are said to have an open newel or hollow newel. 2. (Shipwrighting.) An upright piece of timber to receive the tenons of the rails that lead from the breastwork of the gangway. New-sand. （Founding.) Facing-sand. News′pa-per. The newspaper, like many other useful inventions, seems to have originated in China. The Pekin Gazette, the oldest daily in the world, was first issued about A. D. 1350. This is still in existence, and is an official journal, containing such information as the government chooses to make known. It is composed of three parts: 1. The court journal, or copy of the door of the palace, which announces day by day the list of functionaries on duty, the actions of the emperor, the presentations, visits, departures, etc.; 2. The imperial decrees; 3. The reports of the great officers of the crown. It forms a pamphlet of 20 to 40 pages of coarse paper, printed fro
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ure. The silvering of glasses and mirrors by the electro-plating process is accomplished in the bath of silver solution in the usual way, the glass being perfectly clean. See next article. See also Platinizing, page 1741; looking-glass, pages 1350, 1351; Mir-Ror, pages 1452, 1453; glass-silvering, pages 982, 983. Sil′ver-ing glass. In Liebig's process (Wagner's Jahresbericht, Vol. II. pp. 168-171), to an aqueous solution containing 10 grammes nitrate of silver in 200 cubic centimetstood in Egypt 10,000 years ago as well as at the time he wrote. The early indications of the use of iron are glanced at under that caption in this work (see iron); and a cluster of authorities, Egyptian, Syrian, and Greek, cite periods between 1350 and 1537 B. C.; but how was the colossus of Osymandyas cut? （2100 B. C. Lenglet, usher.) Iron and steel were known, but the inference and the balance of authorities are in favor of the more general use of a hard and tough alloy of copper and tin;