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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
spended lamp, conceived the idea of making a pendulum a measurer of time, and in 1639 published a work on mechanics and motion, in which he discussed the isochronal properties of oscillating bodies suspended by strings of the same length. A. D. 1641, Richard Harris constructed a pendulum clock in London, for the church of St. Paul, Covent Garden. A. D. 1649, a pendulum clock was constructed by Vincenzio Galileo (the younger Galileo). A. D. 1650, Huyghens constructed clocks on this princ and yarns were largely imported from the East into Europe for several centuries; but the manufacture of the cotton-wool, as it was long called, gradually crept into the various countries of Europe. The earliest notice in England is by Roberts, 1641, who describes the excellent goods, fustians, cermillions, dimities, and other stuffs, made by the inhabitants of Manchester, of cotton-wool brought from Smyrna and Cyprus. First made by machinery by Louis Paul in 1736-40. See Cottonmachinery.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
ng.) a. In punching-machines, a bed-piece which has an opening the size of the punch, and through which the piece is driven. This piece may be a planchet or blank, or it may be merely a plug driven out of the object to form a bolt or rivet hole. In nut-machines the nuts-blanks may be made by one die and punched by another. Hammer-forging dies. b. (Forging.) A device consisting of two parts which coact to give to the piece swaged between them the desired form, as in the example (Fig. 1641), which shows a set of hammer-forging cameo and intaglio dies, which act successively upon the blank. c. (Sheet-metal.) A former and punch or a cameo and intaglio die between which a piece of sheetmetal is pressed into shape by a blow or simple pressure. See drop-press. d. (Coining.) Both dies are intaglio, so as to make a cameo or raised impression upon each face of the planchet. The upper die has the obverse, the face, which is often the bust of the sovereign or national emblem. Th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
ern art. Two centuries since, hats were customarily worn indoors. Home to bed; having got a strange cold in my head, by flinging off my hat at a dinner, and sitting with the wind in my neck. — Pepys's Diary, September 22, 1664. Home to supper, having a great cold, got on Sunday last, by sitting too long with my head bare, for Mercer [his wife's maid] to comb [his hair?] and wash my ears. — Ibid., January 25, 1664. This day Mr. Hoblen sent me a bever, which cost me £ 45 s. — Ibid., 1641. In Lord Clarendon's essay on the decay of respect paid to age, he says that in his younger days he never kept on his hat before those older than himself, except at dinner. Hats, besides those of straw and similar material, are made of fur, principally that of the Russian hare or coney, mixed with a small proportion of wool or cotton. There is a legend that the process of felting was accidentally discovered by St. Clement, who, having put some rabbits' fur in his shoes to protect his
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
accordingly done. The orders for this purpose were issued by the government in the year 1184, and upon that occasion, it is said, the name of the city, which was then called Lutetia, on account of its dirtiness, was changed to that of Paris. In 1641, the streets in many quartiers of Paris were not yet paved. Dijon, at that time reckoned one of the most beautiful cities of France, had paved streets as early as 1391; and it is remarked by historians that after this period dangerous diseases,ter, as were also the astronomical clocks of Tycho Brahe and other less celebrated astronomers of his period. b shows the Harris pendulum as contrived by him in the clock put up in the turret of the Church of St. Paul, Covent Garden, London, in 1641. It will be seen that it may have occurred as a modification of the De Wyck vibrating arm, one of the weights being taken off and the arm hung vertically. Galileo, about 1581, observed the swinging of a suspended lamp and the regularity of the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
or of the steam-engine. The authority for all was a letter, purporting to have been written in 1641 by Marion de Lorme to her lover, Cinq Mars. Mr. Muirhead, in his life of Watt, might exclaim, See how plain a tale shall put thee down! There was, says he, no Marquis of Worcester in 1641. The title of Marquis was not conferred till 1642, and then upon Henry Somerset, the father of the Marquis A French historian farther cites that Solomon De Caus could hardly have been seen at Bicetre in 1641 in a raving condition, as he died in 1630; and farther, that Bicetre was not a hospital in 1630 or 1641. At all events, the device of De Caus' fountain is inferior to that of Porta, as the boiler and water-chamber are not distinct in the former. Next in the line we behold the Marquis of Worulture thence gradually spread throughout the West Indies. Barbadoes was supplied from Brazil in 1641, and the culture was introduced into Louisiana by French refugees from St. Domingo toward the clo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
ferential thermometer. See also Fig. 6360. Any instrument which shows variations of temperature, whether or not it indicates the actual differences, is sometimes called by this name, including the thermometer. Such were those of Galileo, who in 1593 constructed thermoscopes, which were dependent concurrently on changes of temperature and on variations in the pressure of the external air. These were probably similar to the aerometers of the Spanish Saracens. See Aerometer. As early as 1641 observations of temperature were made at regular intervals with spirit-thermometers similar to our own. Barker and Mayer's thermoscope, August 26, 1873, is designed to indicate in a manner to be readily discernible to the eye the existence of excessive heat in journal-bearings, etc., and also the proper degree of heat to be employed in various processes in the arts. For this purpose two compounds are used. The first is produced by adding a solution of copper sulphate, mixed with sulphuro
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 7 (search)
ciple, then, it has been well asked, does he demand that every colored on submit patiently to have it done? Does his Bible read that God did not make of one blood all nations? Yes, we have antislavery feeling and character enough to humble a Dewey; we want more,--want enough to save a Sims,--to give safe shelter to Ellen Crafts. Hide the outcast, bewray not him that wandereth, is the simplest lesson of common humanity. The Commonwealth, which, planted by exiles, proclaimed by statute in 1641 her welcome to any stranger who might fly to her from the tyranny or oppression of their persecutors, the State which now seeks peace in liberty, should not content herself with this: her rebuke of the tyrant, her voice of welcome to the oppressed, should be uttered so loud as to be heard throughout the South. It should not be necessary to hide the outcast. It ought not to be counted merit now that one does not lift hand against him. O no I fidelity to ancient fame, to present honor, to dut
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Puritan minister. (search)
ur progenitors for more than a century disused religious services on both these solemn occasions? Magistrates alone could perform the marriage ceremony; though it was thought to be carrying the monopoly quite too far, when Governor Bellingham, in 1641, officiated at his own. Prayer was absolutely forbidden at funerals, as was done also by Calvin at Geneva, by John Knox in Scotland, by the English Puritans in the Westminster Assembly, and by the French Huguenots. The bell might ring, the friendervice, at Geneva. Down to 1769 not even a funeral could take place on Sunday in Massachusetts, without license from a magistrate. Then the stocks and the wooden cage were in frequent use, though barbarous and cruel punishments were forbidden in 1641. Scolds and railers were set on a ducking-stool and dipped over head and ears three times, in running water, if possible. Mrs. Oliver, a troublesome theologian, was silenced with a cleft stick applied to her tongue. Thomas Scott, in 1649, was s
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
esired to accept office here in several places, especially Cambridge, perhaps in connection with the newly begun College, but preferred to go home in the autumn of 1641. From Lamson's History of the first Church and Parish in Dedham, pp. 77-82, it would seem that Mr. Phillips did not take office in Dedham until 1640, the Lord ordgoing to call the church together at 8d. a time 6s.0.6.0 [1640.]To our Elder Frost the 20 of the 3d month 30s.1.10.0 To our sister Albon 1 pk of malt 18d.0.1.6 [1641.]Given our sister Francis More (to supply them in there need) 5s.0.5.0 Given our sister Grissell in a hard time 5s.0.5.0 Sent our sister Maning a leg of mutton 13d.0.1.1 Sent our sister Banbrick being sick a brest of mutton0.0.10 Sent our sister Albone the 27 of the 9 month 1641 7l of venison0.1.2 [1643.]Payd our brother Manninge for a belrope A similar purchase was made in 1640.0.1.6 Item payd Elder Frost for a years allowance wch was due at midsomer in the yeare 1643, I say pd
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 23: civil officers. (search)
Clement Chaplin, 1636. Joseph Cooke, 1636-1641. Nicholas Danforth, 1636, 1637. Richard J3, 1655, 1661, 1662. John Bridge, 1637-1639, 1641. Joseph Isaac, 1638. Gregory Stone, 1638. Warner, 1635. Joseph Cooke, 1635-1637, 1639, 1641, 1643, 1645. John Bridge, 1635, 1637-1639, 11641– 1644, 1646, 1647, 1649, 1652. Clement Chaplin, 1635. Nicholas Danforth, 1635-1637. Thows, 1635, 1640. Richard Jackson, 1636, 1637, 1641, 1644, 1654, 1656. Edward Goffe, 1636, 1637, 1639, 1641, 1643, 1644, 1646-1655. Simon Crosby, 1636, 1638. Barnabas Lamson, 1636. Edwardhomas Parish, 1639, 1640. Thomas Marritt, 1639-1641, 1644, 1646, 1647. John Moore,* 1639. Tho676. Abraham Shaw, 1640. Edward Collins,* 1641. Roger Shaw, 1641, 1642, 1644, 1645. John1641, 1642, 1644, 1645. John Russell, 1642, 1643,.1648. Edward Oakes, 1642-1646, 1648, 1649, 1652, 1655, 1657-1664, 166-1668,r, 1632-1635. Joseph Cooke, 1636, 1637, 1639-1641. Joseph Isaac, 1638. Probably. Roger [1 more...]
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