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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 52 52 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 44 44 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 20 20 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 7 7 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 4 4 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 3 3 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 3 3 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. 3 3 Browse Search
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 2 2 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
s, as well as many curious tricks and effects no doubt intended as a part of the machinery of the priests to amuse the speculative and astound the ignorant. Archytis's flying dove was made about 400 B. C. Friar Bacon's speaking head, 1264 A. D. An automatic coach, horses and passengers, was made by Camus for Louis XIV. when a child. Vaucanson made an artificial duck which quacked, ate, and drank; its food undergoing a change simulating digestion. Vaucanson also constructed a flute-player, 1738. The writing automaton was a pantograph; deceptively worked by a confederate, 1769. The automaton chess-player was also a deception, 1769. Maelzel made a trumpeter in 1809. An automaton speaking several sentences was exhibited in London about 1810. See Brewster's Natural magic. The speaking machine invented by a Viennese, exhibited in Europe many years since, and lately in this country, is not an automaton, but is played by keys. The thorax is a bellows, and the sounds are made by th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
enience of carrying in the pocket. c. Gahn's blow-pipe made in four separable parts. d. Wollaston's blow-pipe ready for use. e. Wollaston's blow-pipe with its lower end and beak slid in for carriage in the pocket. f. Dr. Black's blow-pipe. The smaller end is the mouth-piece, and the larger condenses the moisture. While the use of the blow-pipe dates from distant antiquity, yet its use in mineralogy, in determining the nature of the metals in ores, dates from Antony von Suab in 1738, and Cronstedt, 20 years later. The subject may be satisfactorily pursued in Plattner on the blow-pipe, and by consulting a late work, System of Instruction in the practical Use of the Blow-pipe. The reducing flame is produced by blowing the flame of the lamp aside by a weak current of air impinging on the outer surface, the flame being unchanged except in direction. Unconsumed carbon, at a white heat, giving the yellow color to the flame, aids in the reduction of the substance. The o
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
aps not in every respect with any one. The inventions involved in the treatment of cotton by machinery are about as follows:— Fly-shuttle, John Kay, of Bury, 1738. Carding-machine, Lewis Paul, 1738. Drop-box, Robert Kay, 1760. Spinning by rollers, Lewis Paul or John Wyatt, 1738. Spinning-jenny, Hargreaves, 1767. 1738. Drop-box, Robert Kay, 1760. Spinning by rollers, Lewis Paul or John Wyatt, 1738. Spinning-jenny, Hargreaves, 1767. Water-frame, Arkwright, 1769. Power-loom, Rev. D. E. Cartwright, 1785. Cotton-gin, Eli Whitney, 1794. Dressing-machine, Johnson and Radcliffe, 1802– 1804. Power-loom, Horrocks, 1803-1813. Mule, Samuel Crompton, 1774-1779. Self-acting mule, Roberts, 1825. See cotton, flax, wool, hemp, silk, etc., appliances,1738. Spinning-jenny, Hargreaves, 1767. Water-frame, Arkwright, 1769. Power-loom, Rev. D. E. Cartwright, 1785. Cotton-gin, Eli Whitney, 1794. Dressing-machine, Johnson and Radcliffe, 1802– 1804. Power-loom, Horrocks, 1803-1813. Mule, Samuel Crompton, 1774-1779. Self-acting mule, Roberts, 1825. See cotton, flax, wool, hemp, silk, etc., appliances, p. 631. A cotton-factory cited by Ure has machines in the following proportions:— 1 willow, 1 blowing-machine, 1 lap-machine, capable together of cleaning and lapping 9,000 pounds of cotton per week. 21 cards, breakers, and finishers; joint capacity 5,000 pounds per week of 69 hours. 3 drawing-frames of 3 heads each.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
modifications, such as bow-pen, bow-pencil, beam-compass, etc. Compasses for measuring and transferring measurements are called dividers, bisecting-compass, proportional compass, etc. See compass. Draw′ing—frame. 1. A machine in which the slivers of cotton or other wool from the carding-machine are attenuated by passing through consecutive pairs of rollers, each successive pair rotating at a higher speed than its predecessors. The device was first invented by Leon Paul, patented 1738; and perfected by Arkwright, patent 1769. It was called a water-frame, from the circumstance that Arkwright's machinery was driven by water-power. It was named a throstle from the brisk singing or humming sound made by it. See throstle. It is used in the process of doubling slivers (see doubler), and is indispensable in the bobbin-andfly machine and the mule (which see). The drawing-frame, disconnected with any spinning operation, is a machine to elongate the spongy slivers produ
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
flat, thin head, larger than a tack. Flat-paper. That which has not been folded. Flat-press. A press used in the india-rubber business for flattening together a number of piles of folded cloth while they are vulcanized and blended together by a steam heat of say 280° F. Flat-rail. A railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar, spiked to a longitudinal sleeper. Tramways of wood were laid down by Beaumont at Newcastle, in 1602. They were protected by flat straps of iron in 1738, at Whitehaven. Flat cast-iron plates were laid at Coalbrookdale in 1767. The angular cast-iron rail was used in 1776. Edge rails of cast-iron in 1789. Rolled rails in 1820. See rail. Flat-rope. A rope made by plaiting yarns together instead of twisting. Gasket; sennit. Some flat ropes, for mining-shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. Flat-rope Pul′ley. A pulley having a true cylindrical surface and two rising flanges, to keep t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
States service has 29 inches fly and 27 inches head. The edge has a yellow silk fringe. The field is of silk, and has the arms of the United States embroidered in silk on a blue ground, with the number and name of the regiment in a scroll under the eagle. Guil-loche′. （Architecture.) An ornament of intertwisted bands or interlaced cords, which is made continuous as a fascia. Guil′lo-tine. A machine for beheading persons, named after Joseph Ignace Guillotin, a French physician (1738 – 1814), its supposed inventor. He did not invent it, but seeing that his Revolutionary friends had a large job of killing on hand, he suggested its use as a certain and complete mode of decapitation. Dr. Antoine Louis, of Paris, had the credit of its invention for a while, and it appears under the hands of the facile French to have attained a completeness in construction and execution which left nothing to be desired — except, perhaps, mercy. A beheading machine, called the maiden,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
a tunnel or pipe, open at the stern of the vessel, and by means of a pump to force water or air through it into the sea. The reaction thus occasioned would drive the ship forward. The design was put into execution upon a canal, with a boat of considerable size, and worked by pumps by manual labor, but he suggested the employment of a steam-engine, and its application to a vessel of 1,500 tons. The hydraulic propeller of Dr. Allen formed the subject of a patent to David Ramsey, in England, 1738; and Rumsey, of America, 1782. The latter ran a vessel of 50 feet long on the Potomac, and one built on his plan was launched and fitted after his death, and ran on the Thames four miles an hour against wind and tide. Dr. Franklin planned a boat of this kind in 1785, and it has since been tried on the Scheldt, two turbines being used for pumps. Linnaker's hydraulic propeller, 1808, had pumps placed horizontally beneath the bottom of the vessel. The pistons were attached to hanging lev
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ng off piles below the surface of the water was invented by Labelye in planning the operation for establishing foundations for the piers of the Westminster Bridge, 1738, and improved by De Cessart, when building the bridge of Saumur, 1756– 64. In a simple form the machine consists of a frame composed of two longitudinal and thrwater through the stern of the ship at a convenient distance under water. In 1737, Jonathan Hulls patented a steamboat propelled by a paddle-wheel astern. In 1738, David Ramsey obtained a patent in England for a mode of propulsion of vessels by the force of water ejected by a steam-pump. In 1780, Watt suggested the spiralely against the water causes the vessel to advance. Paddle-propellers. The hydraulic propeller so often projected — by Allen, in 1729; Hulls, 1737; Ramsay, 1738; Rumsey, 1782; Franklin and Evans, 1786 — has been lately revived, the English government vessel the Water-Witch being propelled by a rotary pump taking in water a<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
d d. Spin′ning-head. A form of spinner in which the drawing and twisting mechanism are united in one head. This was the first form of spinningma-chine, if we except the spinning-wheel. It was invented by Lewis Paul, and patented by him in 1738. His machine had successive pairs of shaving-rolls for elongating the roving, the speed of the consecutive pairs increasing, so that each pulled upon the roving between itself and the succeeding pair, the eventual extension depending upon the relner. Spinning-roller. Spin′ning-roll′er. A wheel in the drawing portion of a spinning-machine. (See drawing-frame, pages 743, 744.) The wheels are made to run in pairs, and formed the basis of the machine first invented by Lewis Paul in 1738, and brought into successful operation by Arkwright in 1769. See spinning-head. Spinning-rollers are made of various materials. The rollers themselves are made of iron; leather is the material principally used as a covering; rubber, vulcanit<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
rcles the horse's throat; also called jaw strap. Throe. A tool for splitting balks of timber into shingles or clapboards. A frow. Thros′tle. 1. (Cotton.) The drawing-frame of the cotton manufacture. The great invention which succeeded the spinning-jenny of Hargreaves. The drawing-frame is for attenuating slivers of fiber by passing them through consecutive pairs of rollers, each pair in the succession revolving at a higher speed than its predecessor. Leon Paul, by patent of 1738, claimed a mode of spinning by rollers, but the device did not come into use. (See spinning.) Richard Arkwright perfected the invention and patented it in 1769. Arkwright's original spinning-frame was fed with rovings which passed between three pairs of rollers of successively increasing speed. The yarns were wound upon bobbins by means of flyers. It was the culmination of several attempts, and possesses the main features of the throstle and the bobbin and flyframe in function, as well a
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