Browsing named entities in Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight). You can also browse the collection for Marx or search for Marx in all documents.

Your search returned 3 results in 1 document section:

Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
being used much in France and Belgium, where these trees abound. Poplar is principally used in the United States and makes a whiter pulp than fir. Fig. 7331 is Marx's apparatus, in which several boxes are arranged around the periphery of the rough-faced revolving grindstone, and in each blocks of wood are forced edgewise againdharmonicon, which appears to have been used in England down to the beginning of the eighteenth century, since which time it has only been shown as a curiosity. Marx's wood-grinder. The resonant powers of some kinds of wood are well understood among the Orientals. Besides the batons, castanets, and bones (so called), are iy this thinning and the proportioning of the length, the bars are tuned. The instrument is played with two drumsticks, like the familiar little glass dulcimer. Marx's apparatus for reducing wood to paper-pulp. A similar instrument in which slips of iron or steel were substituted for the wooden bars was to be seen at the ca