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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
e hard paste in 1706; the red ware like jasper, in 1711: white porcelain, in 1709; the perfect, white kind, in 1715. He died in 1719. Heroldt introduced gilding and painting in 1720; modeled groups, in 1731; porcelain made in England, at Bow, in 1698. Wedgwood ware was first patented, 1762. Porcelain may be distinguished from the coarser earthenware as a pottery which is fine grained, compact, very hard, and somewhat translucid. The latter quality is derived from its partial vitrification Cordova had been doing in the mean time, we should probably find that the piston-pump was not entirely laid away for fifteen or sixteen centuries. Dr. Papin was the first, so far as we know, to suggest raising water by means of a steam-engine, 1698. The devices of the Marquis of Worcester and Savery were not engines. They were water-raising devices, in which steam pressed upon the surface of water in a tank and raised it to a hight proportioned to the pressure. They did not differ essentia
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
nd test them. Basco de Garay, 1543, the Marquis of Worcester, 1655, Denys Papin, 1695, Savery, 1698, and others, had prophesied, proposed, or tried steam navigation. The modes of propulsion weres Savery's invention. It appears to be otherwise, but was adopted by the latter in his patent of 1698, and in his joint patent with Newcomen, of whom we shall have to speak after Savery's first apparf Philosophical Transactions, A. D. 1700, the patent being granted by the astute William III. in 1698. It is stated to be for raising water by the help of fire. The illustration shows a double appaved by Baptista Porta in 1600; De Caus (?), in 1620; the Marquis of Worcester in 1633; Savery, in 1698. See steam-engine. Steamer. Steam-gage. （Steam.) An attachment to a boiler to indicat by the jealous workmen of that day, and were thrown aside. Stereotype shaving-machine. In 1698, J. Van der Mey, in Holland, had printed a quarto Bible and some other books from pages of type s
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
iards, May, 1493. He was not aware, no blame to him, that the line was slowly moving east, and would soon be far removed from its first-observed position. It was reserved for a future age to show the incorrectness of the then received opinion that magnetism is an effluvium issuing forth from the root of the tail of the Little Bear. Halley, in 1683, sketched his theory of four magnetic poles or points of attraction, and of the periodical movement of the magnetic lines of no variation. In 1698-1702 he made several voyages of observation, and the result was a general variationchart, in which the points of equal variation were connected by curved lines. Hansteen's chart (1787) gives the western and eastern lines of no variation at the date of his writing. These are given under magnetometer (which see). Variation-charts are now in common use at sea. An excellent one, derived from the most recent observations, is published from time to time by the British Admiralty. Before
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 1: the Puritan writers (search)
and wonderfully made: Christianus per Ignem; or, a Disciple Warming of Himself and Owning his Lord Nails Fastened; or, Proposals of Piety Complied Withal; and so on. No theme appeared to be simple enough for Cotton Mather to treat simply; and in consequence most of his work is now dead. Even that greatest book of his, the formidable Magnalia Christi Americana, Its sub-title was The Ecclesiastical history of New England from its first planting, in the year 1620, unto the year of our Lord 1698. It was first published in London in 1702. can now be read only by the special student of history. He was, says Professor Tyler, the last, the most vigorous, and therefore the most disagreeable representative of the fantastic school in literature; he prolonged in New England the methods of that school even after his most cultivated contemporaries there had outgrown them, and had come to dislike them. The expulsion of the beautiful from thought, from sentiment, from language; a lawless and
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 3: the third and fourth generation (search)
for the chief political events in Europe in his day, no less than his brooding solicitude for the welfare of his townspeople, and his agony of spirit over the lapses of his wayward eldest son. A sincere man, then, as Carlyle would say, at bottom; but overlaid with such Jewish old clothes, such professional robings and personal plumage as makes it difficult, save in the revealing Diary, to see the man himself. The Magnalia Christi Americana, treating the history of New England from 1620 to 1698, was published in a tall London folio of nearly 800 pages in 1702. It is divided into seven books, and proceeds, by methods entirely unique, to tell of Pilgrim and Puritan divines and governors, of Harvard College, of the churches of New England, of marvelous events, of Indian wars; and in general to justify, as only a member of the Mather dynasty could justify, the ways of God to Boston men. Hawthorne and Whittier, Longfellow and Lowell knew this book well and found much honey in the vast c
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 1: Ancestry. (search)
as governor of the Commonwealth. of the emigrant ancestor, was baptized at Bicester, Aug. 8, 1632. Marrying Mary Josselyn, of Lancaster, he had seven children. In 1660, he removed from Dorchester to Lancaster, that he might, with other Christians at Lancaster, join together for the gathering of a church; but, after the destruction of that town by the Indians, he removed to Milton (set off from Dorchester and incorporated in 1662), where he became the deacon of the first church, and died in 1698. His fourth son, William, who was born about 1673, had, for his seventh child, Seth, who was born in 1710, and became, by two marriages, the father of thirteen children. By the first marriage he had Seth, the grandfather of Major-General Edwin V. Sumner, who was an officer of the regular army, served in the Mexican War, commanded in Kansas during a part of the controversy between the free-state and the pro-slavery men, and bore a distinguished part in the war of the Rebellion. By the secon
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 17: heresy and witchcraft. (search)
imilar fate, when she was arrested on suspicion of witchcraft. She was long confined in prison, leaving four young children, one of them an infant, to the tender mercies of her neighbors. What made her case the more deplorable was, that she had long been partially deranged. During her confinement, her mother Thomas Andrew, the father of Mrs. within Jacobs, died about 1647, and his widow married Nicholas Wyeth; he died July 19, 1680, and she married Thomas Fox, Dec. 16, 1685; she died in 1698. presented a petition to the court in her behalf, on account of her mental infirmity, but in vain. She then addressed to the Governor and Council a petition which is still preserved in the archives of the Commonwealth, and which deserves insertion here:— To his Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt., Governor, and the honorable Council now sitting in Boston, the humble petition of Rebeccah Fox of Cambridge sheweth,— That whereas Rebecah Jacobs (daughter of your humble petitioner) has
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 23: civil officers. (search)
vid Fiske, 1689, 1697. Thomas Oliver, 1692, 1693, 1698, 1701-1713. John Leverett, 1696, 1699, 1700, 1706 Jonathan Remington, 1674, 1688, 1689, 1691-1694, 1698-1700. Isaac Stearns,* 1674. Matthew Bridge,* 1 Ephraim Winship,* 1679. John Oldham, 1679, 1695-1698, 1700– 1703, 1706-1708, 1711-1714. John Hastings,nship, 1691-1693, 1695– 1701. James Oliver, 1694, 1698, 1699. Abraham Hill, 1695, 1696. William Russe 1700-1702, 1704, 1705, 1712-1714. Joseph Simons, 1698, 1699. William Reed, 1698, 1699. John Leverett1698, 1699. John Leverett, 1699, 1700. Samuel Sparhawk, 1701-1705, 1709, 1710. Samuel Cooper, 1702-1710, 1712– 1716. Andrew Bopt in the year 1694. Walter Hastings, 1694, 1697, 1698, 1700-1705. Samuel Stone, 1694, 1697, 1698. Th1698. Thomas Oliver, 1694, 1697-1699, 1706, 1715. Josiah Parker, 1699. Francis Bowman, 1699-1709, 1711. Jonat Samuel Andrew, 1682-1692. Jona. Remington, 1693, 1698-1700. Samuel Green, 1694-1697. Andrew Bordman,<
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
3 March 1667-8, had been missing four years, in 1698, and does not appear to have returned afterward. 10 July 1711; and perhaps others, previous to 1698. John the f. d. 12 Feb. 1735-6, and his estatee d. 25 Ap. 1693, aged 85; his w. Rebecca d. in 1698. After his marriage to Mrs. Green he resided id rem. from Billerica to Camb. about 1692. In 1698 his father conveyed to him the warehouse, boat-; Jonathan, b. 31 Jan. 1694-5; Sarah, b. 11 Aug 1698; Ebenezer, b. 9 Aug. 1700; James, b. 31 Jan. 171718 (Joshua, William, and Ann, bap. here 3 Ap. 1698); Mary, bap. 11 Dec. 1698, m. Thomas Dana 22 Ja had Hannah, b. 1676, m. John Downing of Boston 1698; Jeremiah, b. 1677, d. 1700; Mehetabel, d. 1688b. 1714-15; and perhaps others between 1689 and 1698. Gershom the f. res. at Menot. and d. 2 Julyad. H. C. 1693, ordained in the College Chapel 1698, and went to Barbadoes, but soon returned and wia Fiske 6 Sept. 1681; she d. s. p. 10 Mar, 1697-8, and he m. Deborah Parker 30 June 1698, by whom [15 more...]
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, A. (search)
65, d. 24 Feb. 1666-7; Mary, b. 28 Dec. 1666, d. 20 June 1667; Thomas, b. 23 March 1667-8, had been missing four years, in 1698, and does not appear to have returned afterwards; Mary, b. 22 Feb. 1671-2, d. 29 Feb. 1671-2; Jonathan, named in his father's will as the youngest son, 1698, d. 9 May 1700; Samuel the f. was in early life a mariner, and is mentioned as follows: Mr. Jonas Clarke and Mr. Samuell Andrews, both well skilled in the mathematics, having had the command of ships upon several voonn.. 18 Nov. 1685; united with Rev. Messrs. Pierpont and Russell in concerting a plan for the foundation of Yale College, 1698; was one of its first Board of Fellows 1700; and served in that capacity during life; was its acting President between 170. d. about 1647, and his w. Rebecca m. Nicholas Wyeth, who d. 19 July 1680; she m. (3d) Thomas Fox 16 Dec. 1685, and d. in 1698. 7. Thomas, s. of Thomas (6), m. Martha Eccles 30 Oct. 1673, and had dau. Rebecca, who m. Samuel Bowman 21 Nov. 1700,
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