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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 16 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 9, 1863., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 2 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 2 0 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 2 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
for the number of pounds raised one foot per minute, and this is now the admitted measure of a horse power. An′i-mals. In the nomenclature of the mechanic arts, the names of animals have not been entirely overlooked e. g.: — Ass.Cricket.Hound.Rat. Bear.Crow.Jack.Seal. Bee.Dog.Jenny.Serpent. Beetle.Dolphin.Kite.Skate. Buck.Drill.Leech.Slug. Buffalo.Fish.Lizard.Snail. Bull-dog.Fly.Mole.Sole. Butterfly.Fox.Monkey.Starling. Camel.Frog.Mouse.Swift. Cat.Goose.Mule.Throstle. Cock.Hawk.Pig.Turtle. Cow.Hedgehog.Pike.Urchin. Crab.Hog.Ram.Worm. Crane.Horse. Each of these useful animals is described in its alphabetical place. Ani-mal trap. A device for catching animals. There are numerous varieties; some to set in the path of the animals, others are pulled off by a person on watch; the more common forms are those in which the animal is the cause of his own capture by meddling with the bait, or by crawling into his prison in search of food. A few instances of di
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
horn. The beak-iron or bick-iron is all beak. b. A toe-clip or a horse's shoe turned up against the hoof. 5. (Nautical.) a. A ram, pike, or rostrum on the stem of a vessel to run down an opponent. b. The part of a ship forward of the stem and supporting the figure-head. 6. (Chemical.) The rostrum of an alembic which conducts the vapor to the worm. 7. One of the jaws of a forceps or pliers, named after some real or fancied resemblance to the protruding facial organ; as, — Hawk's-bill forceps.Round-nose pliers. Narrow-beak forceps.Crane's-bill forceps. Long-nose pliers.Crow's-bill forceps. 8. (Gas-Fitting.) A gas-burner with one round, smooth hole 1/28 of an inch in diameter. Beak′er. （Glass.) An open-mouthed thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; used for containing solutions requiring heat, etc. Beakerglass. Beak — head beam. （Shipbuilding.) The longest beam in a ship. Beak′ing-joint. The joint formed by the meet
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
ge file.Vulcanite file. Den′tal For′ceps. The dentist uses a variety of operating-forceps. Some are distinguished by their objective names, as — Upper forceps.Molar forceps. Under forceps.Dentes sapientioe forceps. Front forceps.Root forceps. Back forceps.Alveolar forceps. Incisor forceps.Spicula forceps. Bicuspid forceps. By shape or peculiar conformation: — Straight forceps.Narrow-beak forceps. Curved forceps.Cow-horn forceps. Bayonet-shape forceps.Fulcrum forceps. Hawk's-bill forceps.Screw forceps. By the kind of duty: — Excising forceps.Nipping forceps. Separating forceps.Plugging forceps. Den′tal Ham′mer. An instrument for plugging teeth; operated by the alternate pressure and relaxation of pressure of the stock upon the point. The plugging-tool presses against the filling in the tooth; pressure on the case makes the tool-stock recede, imparting its movement to the lifting-bar and hammer, until the bar passes the incline of the wedg
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
eese, onions, and olives, and it held sufficient for three days. 2. A gunner's case for carrying a charge from the chest to the gun. See gunner's haversack. Hawk. （Plastering.) A piece of hoard ten inches square, and held by a handle at the bottom; it is used to hold a small quantity of plaster, and is grasped by the p to hold pieces in blow-pipe soldering. Hawk-bill-tooth saw. A saw having a curving, hooked saw-tooth, somewhat resembling the upper mandible of the hawk. Hawk′er. （Nautical.) A vessel built like a pink, but rigged like a hoy; that is, having a narrow stern and sloop-rigged. Hawks-bill. （Horology.) A catch-pim. Clock.Hair-spring. Clock-movement.Half-minute glass. Clock-pillar.Hammer. Compensation-balance.Hammer-tail spring. Compensation-pendulum.Hand. Count-wheel.Hawk's bill. Cuckoo-clock.Heliotrope. Curb-pins.Hour-glass. Dial.Hunter-watch. Dial-work.Hydraulic clock. Ding-dong.Hydroscope. Illuminating-clock.Repeating-
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
white wax and warm at a fire to effect the absorption of the wax. Plas′ter-ers' tools and work. See — Angle-bead.Rendering. Angle-float.Rough-cast. Angle-staff.Roughing-in. Bastard-stucco.Rule. Batten.Scagliola. Boss.Screed. Coarse stuff.Screen. Coat.Second coat. Darby.Set. Dots.Setting. Dubbing out.Shave-hook. Fine stuff.Staff-angle. Finishing-coat.Stucco. First-coat.Three-coat work. Float.Trowel. Floating.Troweled. Gage-stuff.Two-coat work. Grounds. Hand-finish. Hawk. Kalsomine. Key. Lath. Lathing-clamp. Lathing-hammer. Laying. Mortar. Parget. Plaster. Plastering-machine. Pricking-up. Pugging. Plastering-machine. Plas′ter-ing-ma-chine′. Coburn's plasteringmachine (Fig. 3808) consists of a frame A mounted on wheels and carrying two pivoted beams F N. The former of these has a pulley at each end, around which passes an endless band carrying a series of trowels R. Mortar is placed in the hopper B, and by turning a crank the endless ba
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
(d), a block of iron slotted to receive the ends of adjacent rails. The wheel had a tread of 2 1/3 inches, and a flange to keep it on the rail. The sleepers were of wood. Woodhouse's hollow rail (e), with a channel for the rounded edge of the wheel, 1803. The fish-bellied rail at Penrhyn, 1805. Blenkinsop's rack-rail (f), 1811. See Fig. 2984, page 1344. A square-bodied cast rail (g), 1810. Losh and Stephenson's flanged rail (h), 1816. This was a lapping continuous rail. Hawk's cast-iron face upon a wrought-iron base. 1817. Birkenshaw's malleable face upon a cast base, 1820. Birkenshaw, of Bedlington, Durham, invented the rolled rail; the iron, while hot, being passed between grooved rollers of the required pattern (i j k l). m n o p are respectively the Spanish, Marseilles, Strasburg, and Great Western (England) patterns. q, Durham and Sunderland, England. r, Berlin and Potsdam, Prussia. s, London and Blackwall, England. t, Manchester and Birm