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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 2 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 2 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fundamental constitutions. (search)
Fundamental constitutions. The Fulton's birthplace. proprietors of the Carolinas, which included the territory of what was afterwards the colony of Georgia, wishing to establish an aristocratic government, in feudal form, employed the Earl of Shaftesbury and John Locke to frame one. They Fulton's torpedo. completed the task in March, 1669, and named the instrument Fundamental constitutions. It provided for two orders of nobility; the higher to consist of landgraves, or earls, the loFulton's torpedo. completed the task in March, 1669, and named the instrument Fundamental constitutions. It provided for two orders of nobility; the higher to consist of landgraves, or earls, the lower of caciques, or barons. The territory was to be divided into counties, each containing 480,000 acres, with one landgrave and two caciques. There were also to be lords of manors, who, like the nobles, might hold courts and exercise judicial functions, but could never attain to a higher rank. The four estates—proprietors, earls, barons, and commoners—were to sit in one legislative chamber. The proprietors were always to be eight in number, to possess the whole judicial power, and have the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mayer, Alfred Marshall 1836-1897 (search)
Mayer, Alfred Marshall 1836-1897 Physicist; born in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 13, 1836; left college and entered the draughtingroom of a mechanical engineer. Later he took a laboratory course and made a specialty of chemistry. He was appointed Professor of Physics and Chemistry in the University of Maryland in 1856, and three years later accepted the similar chair in Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., where he remained two years. In 1867-71 he was Professor of Astronomy in Lehigh University, and from 1871 till his death Professor of Physics in Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J. In 1869 he had charge of a party sent to Burlington, Alfred Marshall Mayer Ia., to observe the solar eclipse of Aug. 7, for the United States Nautical almanac. During this eclipse he took forty-one successful photographs. In 1871-75 he contributed a series of investigations entitled Researches in Acoustics to the American journal of Science. Later these investigations led to his inventions of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steam navigation. (search)
e company failed in 1790. Fitch's efforts in steam navigation also failed. John C. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., constructed a steamboat on the waters of the Hudson that was driven by a Watt engine, moved by vapor from a tubular boiler of his own invention, and a screw propeller. The same year Oliver Evans put a steam dredgingmachine on the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers propelled by a steam paddle-wheel moved by a high-pressure engine, the first of its kind ever used. Meanwhile Robert Fulton's Clermont on its trial-trip up the Hudson. Fulton, a professional painter, had conceived a plan for steamboat navigation while an inmate of Joel Barlow's residence in Paris. He met Chancellor Livingston in Paris, and interested that gentleman in his projects. He tried two experiments on the Seine in 1803. Fulton visited Scotland, where a steamboat was in operation, and received from the inventor a description of its construction. With these facts in his possession, Fulton planned, and,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Torpedoes. (search)
Torpedoes. The government of the United States, like that of Great Britain, refused to make use of Fulton's torpedoes in warfare, but it was attempted by individuals against the British blockading squadron. In New York Harbor a schooner named the Eagle was used as a torpedo-vessel. In her hold John Scudder, Jr., originator of the plot, placed ten kegs of gunpowder, with a quantity of sulphur mixed with it, in a strong cask, and surrounded it with huge stones and other missiles, which, inhe explosion, and nearly upset. Torpedoes were also placed at intervals across the Narrows, at New York, and at the entrance to the harbor of Portland. The impression prevailed in the British navy that the United States government had adopted Fulton's torpedoes, and this made the British commanders on our coast very circumspect. No doubt the fear of torpedoes saved the American coast-towns from plunder and the torch. Torpedo war- Torpedoes. A, platform; B, torpedo; C, water-tight pine-b
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ns, Captain Humphreys, fires into the United States frigate Chesapeake, Commodore Barron, off Chesapeake Bay, killing three and wounding eight, and takes four seamen, claiming them as British subjects......June 22, 1807 [Barron was suspended by a courtmartial for five years without pay and emoluments, for making no resistance and surrendering his ship.] American ports closed to the British, and British ships ordered from American waters......July, 1807 First steamboat, the Clermont (Fulton's), starts from New York for Albany......Sept. 14, 1807 Aaron Burr acquitted......Sept. 15, 1807 Tenth Congress, first session, convenes......Oct. 26, 1807 Speaker of the House, Joseph B. Varnum, Massachusetts. A British Order in council forbids neutral nations to trade with France or her allies except under tribute to Great Britain......Nov. 11, 1807 Napoleon's Milan decree forbids trade with England or her colonies, and confiscates any vessel paying tribute or submitting to Eng
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
of health created by act of legislature......1883 Some seventy-five of the Bald-knobber organization of Christian county are arrested in March, some on the charge of murder, others for attending unlawful assemblies of Regulators. All but the leaders are tried at Ozark and fined......August, 1887 Fifty out of seventy-eight elections under the Wood local option law result in favor of prohibition......1887 Governor Marmaduke dies......Dec. 28, 1887 Institution for deaf and dumb at Fulton burned......February, 1888 Bald-knobber leader David Walker and three accomplices tried, March and April, 1888. Sentenced to be executed on May 18; postponed. Their Bald-knobber friends, for revenge, seize and hang five of the witnesses......Nov. 14, 1888 Norman J. Coleman appointed Secretary of Agriculture......Feb. 12, 1889 Australian ballot reform act, applicable to cities and towns with a population of 5,000 and over, passed by the legislature......1889 Act of legislature
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 27 (search)
halt for the night at Sand Creek, a distance of about seventeen miles from Baldwin. It will resume its line of march the next morning at 3 A. M., and will take position for the present at Priceville, leaving a brigade at the cross of the road with the Ripley and Cotton-gin roads, near Smith's or Brook's house, and a cavalry force at or about the Hearn sawmill. One brigade will be sent to Mooresville or vicinity, and a force of cavalry to guard the Twenty-mile Creek ferry, on the road from Fulton, with a strong picket at the latter place. The cavalry regiment at Marietta will not leave that position until the 8th instant, at 4 A. M. 2d. General Hardee's corps will start for Tupelo at 4 P. M. on the 7th instant, via the same road as General Van Dorn's army, stopping for the night at a creek about nine miles from its present position. He will send, at 4 A. M. on that day, one regiment and two pieces of artillery to the cross-road with the Natchez trail road, to guard the Twenty-mi
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
om stem to stern of the boat, over the keel. In 1789, Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia, had a stern-wheel steamboat which navigated the Schuylkill. In 1795, Lord Stanhope invented the duck-feet paddles, and ran a boat three miles an hour. In 1796, Fitch had a steamboat on Collect Pond, New York, propelled by a screw astern. In 1802, Symington's double boat, Charlotte Dundas, was propelled by one middle paddle-wheel abaft the engine and working in the space between the twin boats. Fulton's and Bell's steamboats had side paddle-wheels, as also the Savannah, 1819, Enterprise, 1825, Great Western and Sirius, 1838. The Great Britain, 1843, had a screw, and after this the screw became common. See paddle-wheel. The term propeller is usually applied to the longitudinal revolving shaft with vanes or wings, and more specifically known as the screw-propeller. The first use of the propeller was by Stevens, of Hoboken, who used twin-bladed screws in 1804. See screw-propelle
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
and shops, the motive-power of which was a screw-propeller with an engine supplied by a flue boiler. In August, 1807, Fulton's boat (the Clermont ) started from New York for Albany The Legislature of that State had promised to any persons who wou798 of the State of New York for navigating the Hudson by steam, and being U. S. Ambassador in Paris during the period of Fulton's residence there, they became mutually interested in the projects for steam-navigation. Experiments on the Seine were iched on the East River, and was fitted with the Boulton and Watt steam-engine, purchased for the purpose in England. Fulton's steamboat, Clermont, 1807. Fulton's boat, the Clermont, ran in 1807, and had the following proportions:— Length,Fulton's boat, the Clermont, ran in 1807, and had the following proportions:— Length, 133 feet. Depth, 7 feet. Breadth, 18 feet. Burden, 160 tons. 1 cylinder, 2 feet diameter, 4 feet stroke. Paddle-wheels, 15 feet diameter, 2 feet dip, 4 feet broad. Boiler, 20 feet long, 7 deep, 8 broad. Speed, 5 miles per hour,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
structed a boat which, when at the surface, was propelled by a sail, and resembled an ordinary boat; the mast could be struck, and the boat, with its contents, submerged to the depth of several fathoms, and propelled by machinery, at the rate of about four miles an hour, in any direction desired. This invention at first met the approval of Napoleon, who, however, afterward appears either to have lost faith or grown tired of it, as the boat was never brought to any farther practical test. Fulton's torpedo-boat (New York). After the return of Fulton to America, he continued the experiments, without, however, much success. Fig. 6562 shows a boat he devised of 300 tons burden, with sides 6 feet thick, designed to be cannon-proof, and musket-proof decks 6 inches thick. She was to be propelled by a scullwheel, and was intended to carry two torpedoes on each side, fixed on the ends of spars 96 feet long, supported by guys from the mast-head. During the late civil war a number of
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