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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
viding the vacuum in front of the traveling-carriage of a pneumatic tube, a jet of steam issuing from an annular nozzle concentric with that end of the tube toward which the carriage is moving. The steam or vapor carries along with it a current of air which is drawn from the tube. It is more correct to call this a substitute for the blower. The steam — jet for the ventilation of mines was used long ago, and then abandoned. It has since been tried very successfully at a colliery at Oldham, England, in which the satisfactory flow of nearly 23,000 cubic feet of air per minute was obtained. 2. An iron plate temporarily placed in front of an open fire, to urge the combustion. 3. A machine for separating the hair from the fur fibers. See Blowingmachine. Blow′er and Spread′er. （Cotton-manufacture.) A machine for spreading cotton into a lap, the action of beaters and blower being conjoined for the purpose. See cotton-cleaning machine. Blow-gun. Used by the Barba
The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Louisiana St. Gar Crop. (search)
ritish honor, and indignation at the outrage it is supposed to have received. The French journalists to whom we allude are acting in this instance the excessively good-natured part of a bystander who, observing two boys in menacing and angry attitude, endeavors to aggravate the quarrel by stimulating to the utmost the wrath of the bigger combatant." "indignation Meetings." The London and Manchester journals are filled with indignation speeches against America. At one of them, (at Oldham,) on the 6th, Hon. Joseph Howe, Prime Minister of Nova Scotia, said: If two of the blackest and ugliest slaves in the South had escaped to a British vessel would Englishmen have allowed them to be seized? Suppose Garibaldi or Bixio had been coming to England from Italy to negotiate for peace, or fair play, or anything else, had been taken out of an English ship in the Mediterranean by a Neapolitan man-of-war? In either case would not every Englishman have demanded and enforced redres
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
Increase of the military force in Canada--a meeting in England. --The Montreal Advertiser has the following significant paragraph: The military force in Canada is about to be increased by some batteries of artillery and a brigade of infantry. Large additions have been recently made to the stores of arms, ammunition, and material in military depots, which are now equal to equipage and maintaining in the field a force of 250,000 men, should the necessity arise for it during the season when navigations closed. At a public meeting, held at Oldham, resolutions were offered calling on the Government to recognize the Confederate States. An amendment was offered, declaring such recognition impolitic, and likely to lead to war with the North. After some uproarious proceedings, the original motion was declared carried, although the meeting was about equally divided.
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Runaway--$300 reward (search)
A Lancashire Secession meeting — Scenes in the Hall. The people of Oldham, England, assembled a few weeks ago in the Town Hall to memorialize the British Government in behalf of "intervention" The proceedings of the meeting we entertaining in as far as they give a very clear idea of how a noisy English assemblage interrupts t and the extermination of a brave and noble people. [Cheers.] How could men talk of the freedom of the Northern States? It was not such freedom as the people of Oldham, of Lancashire, of England, were now enjoying; but such freedom as was consistent with that most despotic deed of suspending the habeas corpus act. [Applause.] Ma I shall not be long. [A voice: "It's toime tha'd dun nea."] In spite of the counsellors and aldermen of Oldham, [cries of "Question," and hisses,] the people of Oldham [question] still know what is right. [A voice: "They dun that, and they'll let thee know to-neet." Another voice: "Tha's towd th' truth."] In spite of all their