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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schimmelin, Alexander Oliver 1645-1707 (search)
Schimmelin, Alexander Oliver 1645-1707 Historian; born in Flanders about 1645; went to the West Indies in 1666; was a buccaneer in 1669-74; returned to Europe. He was the author of History of the adventures of the freebooters, which are remarkable in the Indies. He died in France in 1707. Schimmelin, Alexander Oliver 1645-1707 Historian; born in Flanders about 1645; went to the West Indies in 1666; was a buccaneer in 1669-74; returned to Europe. He was the author of History of the adventures of the freebooters, which are remarkable in the Indies. He died in France in 1707.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steam navigation. (search)
Steam navigation. The value of steam in navigation was demonstrated by Denys Papin in a model steamboat on the Fulda, near Cassel, in 1707. This was soon destroyed by a mob of boatmen. Jonathan Hulls, of London, England, set forth the idea in a patent obtained in 1736. Bernouilli experimented with a steamboat, using artificial fins, and Genevois with one using the duck's-foot propeller, in 1757. In 1775 M. Perier navigated the Seine with a small steamboat, and in 1783 Claude, Comte de Jouffroy, constructed an engine which propelled a boat on the Saone. Immediately after the close of the Revolutionary War, James Rumsey, of Maryland, propelled a vessel by steam on the Potomac River, a fact certified to by Washington. In 1785 an association was formed to aid him, which was called the Rumsey Society, of which Benjamin Franklin was president. Nothing came of it. The next year John Fitch, a native of Connecticut, exhibited a boat on the Delaware propelled by steam; and in 1788
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wisconsin, (search)
Wisconsin......1683 Nicholas Perrot, appointed commandant of the West, winters near Trempeleau, which he reaches via the Fox and Wisconsin rivers from Green Bay......1685 Father St. Cosme visits site of Milwaukee on his way by boat from Green Bay to the Mississippi River......Oct. 7, 1699 Le Seuer discovers lead mines in southwestern Wisconsin......1700 Marin, the French leader, sent by the Quebec government, attacks the Fox Indians at Winnebago Rapids (Neenah)......winter of 1706-7 De Louvigny, sent to destroy the Fox tribes, leaves Quebec, March 14; fights the battle of Buttes des Morts on the Fox River, and reaches Quebec again......Oct. 12, 1716 Francis Renault engages in mining on the Mississippi above the mouth of the Wisconsin......1719 De Lignery makes a treaty with the Sacs, Foxes, and Winnebagoes, by which the French may cross Wisconsin to trade with the Sioux on Lake Pepin......June 7, 1726 Cardinell, a French soldier, and his wife, settle at Prairi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wharton, Joseph 1707-1776 (search)
Wharton, Joseph 1707-1776 Merchant; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 4, 1707; became wealthy in his business; was the owner of Walnut Grove in Philadelphia, where the Mischianza (q. v.) of 1778 was celebrated. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., in July, 1776.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winthrop, Fitz-john 1639-1707 (search)
Winthrop, Fitz-john 1639-1707 Military officer; born in Ipswich, Mass., March 19, 1639; son of John Winthrop, 2d; went to England; held a commission under Richard Cromwell; and, returning to Connecticut, became a representative in the Congress of the confederacy in 1671. He served as major in King Philip's War, and in 1686 was one of the council of Governor Andros. In 1690 he was major-general of the army designed to operate against Canada, and conducted the expedition with skill and prudence. He was agent of the colony in England; and so wisely did he conduct affairs that the legislature of Massachusetts gave him $2,000. He was governor of Connecticut from 1698 until his death. Like his father, he was fond of scientific pursuits, and was a fellow of the Royal Society. He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 27, 1707.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
rum at each end; heat at the red end, actinium at the violet end. The amount of dispersion of light, or the length of the spectrum formed by prisms having the same refracting angle, varies greatly in different media. Newton supposed that the dispersion was always proportional to the refraction, but Dollond ascertained that although the average refraction of the ray might be the same in two media, yet the dispersion or diverging effect might be much less in one than in the other. Euler (1707 – 83) was the first to state that it must be possible to produce an achromatic lens by using media of different densities. Dollond, in trying by experiments to disprove this supposition, proved its truth. He adopted flint and crown glass, which have a difference in refractive powers in favor of the latter, accompanied by a still greater difference in dispersive powers in favor of the former. He took two lenses, one concave and the other convex, — which are, in effect, equal to two prisms
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
built of wrought-iron, high and low steel welded, and franklinite iron. It has hooped body and solid corners, tongued and grooved door with a lever hinge. The joints are packed with rubber to prevent the operation of the air-pump,—a new and dangerous resort of burglars in introducing explosives at the cracks, to blow open the doors. The view shows the outer and inner door open, and also the door of the inclosed coin-safe. The crown jewels of Scotland were, at the time of the Union, in 1707, deposited in an oaken chest. Its lid was secured by three locks, which were forced open in 1818, because the keys could not anywhere be found, leaving us to infer that locksmiths at least were not at that time very expert in the mystery of lock-picking. Old muniment, deed, and cash chests of this kind were strengthened by iron bands, and generally elaborately carved. They were fastened by several padlocks, or by a multiplicity of bolts shot by a single lock; were formerly considered as
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
e. Fluted tubes are drawn through ornamental dies of the required form. The mandrel is frequently cylindrical. Joint wire is a fine tube used by silversmiths and watch-case makers. A small pipe is threaded on a piece of steel-wire, and both are drawn through a die, like a piece of solid wire. See pipe; lead-pipe. For lead-pipe making and lining with tin, see pages 1271, 1272. For making of gun-barrels, see pages 1032, 1033. For bushing, see page 413. See also pipe, pages 1707, 1708, and list under that head. For tubing for oil-wells, see well-tubing. 2. India-rubber tubes are made: — 1. By wrapping slips of rubber or rubbercloth around a mandrel of glass, which is afterward withdrawn, the layers and the edges being joined by solvents or heat. 2. By driving the pastry mass out through an annular die-opening, in the manner of making lead-pipe (which see). Flexible tubing. The flexible tube (Fig. 6719) has a framework of flattened wire, wound spira
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 1: (search)
he State in 1780. He was born at Windham, in the District of Maine, about fifteen miles from Portland, on the 31st of May, 1818. The family was of English origin, descending from Robert Andrew, of Rowley village, now Boxford, Essex County, Mass., who died there in 1668. He was connected with most of the ancient families of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. The grandmother of Governor Andrew was the grand-daughter of the brave Captain William Pickering, who commanded the Province Galley, in 1707, for the protection of the fisheries against the French and Indians; and the mother of her husband was Mary Higginson, a direct descendant of the Reverend Francis Higginson, the famous pastor of the first church in the colony. The grandfather of Governor Andrew was a silversmith in Salem, who removed to Windham, where he died. His son Jonathan was born in Salem, and lived there until manhood, when he also removed to Windham. There he married Miss Nancy G. Pierce, formerly preceptress of Fr
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), chapter 4 (search)
d that familiar scene and looked upon the flammantia moenia of the old halls, Massachusetts with the dummy clock-dial, Harvard with the garrulous belfry, little Holden with the sculptured unpunishable cherubs over its portal, and the rest of my early brick-and-mortar acquaintances, I could not help saying to myself that I had lived to see the peaceable establishment of the Red Republic of Letters. The estate was the third lot of the eighth Squadron (whatever that might be), and in the year 1707 was allotted in the distribution of undivided lands to Mr. ffox, the Reverend Jabez Fox, of Woburn, it may be supposed, as it passed from his heirs to the first Jonathan Hastings; from him to his son, the long-remembered College Steward; from him, in the year 1792, to the Reverend Eliphalet Pearson, Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages in Harvard College, whose large personality swam into my ken when I was looking forward to my teens; from him to the progenitors of my unborn self.
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