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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
Common brass31 Pinchbeck41 Revere's sheathing-metal (1830）955 Collins's red alloy for sheathing81 Collins's yellow alloy for sheathing108 Collins's white alloy for sheathing11616 Tough brass for engine work2033 Brass for heavy bearings3215 Pinchbeck41 Pinchbeck52 Tombac (Malay, tambaga, copper）1611 Red tombac88.811.2 Red tombac111 Rolled brass74.322.33.4 Tutenag503119 Brass gilding-metal (bronze color)161-1 1/4 Emerson's patent brass (English）168 Keller's statuary brass (Versailles）91.405.531.701.37 Chantrey's hard alloy3255 Manheim gold41 Manheim gold311/4 Semilor51 Mosaic gold (Hamilton and Parker's patent)3233 Mock platinum85 Bath metal329 White brass108010 Ormolu4852 Speculum metal (Martin's patent, August 23, 1859）10018 3/45/816 Mushet's sheathing-metal (1823）1001/8 The proportions are varied, and tin and antimony are added in some of the formulae. Brass-casting. See also brasses and bronzes, with the addition of iron, p. 61, ante.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
ns of Montezuma were adorned and nourished by streams and fountains. For the former they were indebted to extensive aqueducts. The possession of the latter shows that they were acquainted with the principles of hydraulics. Portable fountain. Among the most remarkable fountains are the Fon- tana di Trevi at Rome, constructed for Pope Clement XII. in 1735; the Fontana Paolina, erected for Pope Paul V. in 1612; the Fontana della Acqua Felice, or Fountain of Moses. The fountains of Versailles, made for Louis XIV., and the Jet d'eau of St. Cloud, are much admired. The fountains of Chatsworth, in Derbyshire, England, the residence of the Duke of Devonshire, are particularly grand; as are also those of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, near London. Cincinnati is also proud of a fountain made in Germany, and of a very Teutonic aspect. 2. The beer fountain, as it is called, used for drawing liquors in a tavern bar from barrels in the cellar, by means of a force-pump, is the inven
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
he learned and practical Dr. Hook followed in the same line, about twenty years afterward, and did not leave the matter in any uncertainty. About 1700, Amontous exhibited a semaphore in operation, but the Grand Monarque was too busy with his Versailles and Marly to attend to it. In the stirring times of the French Republic, when the National Convention was watching the Army of the North, Chappe constructed a semaphoric telegraph reaching from the Tuileries to Lisle. As at present constrf. （Surveying.) An instrument for taking angles. Stat′u-a-ry-brass. An alloy of copper, zinc, and tin, used for statuary, generally known as bronze. The proportions of the metals used are indefinite. Analyses of Keller's statues at Versailles give copper, 91.4; zinc, 5.53; tin, 1.7; lead, 1.37. Gun-metal, containing copper 9, tin 1, is frequently employed See brass; bronze; alloy. Stat′u-a-ry-cast′ing. Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus refer to massive statues set up in the