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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
racked through their whole substance. After being quenched they are ground, with water, in mills resembling the arrastra. The mill is a hollow cylinder of wooden staves bound with hoops, and having a bottom of blocks of chert; the mill-shaft is perpendicular and has two horizontal arms, between which are laid loose blocks of chert, which are moved round on the bed-stone as the arms revolve, and thus grind the flint with water to the consistence of cream. The clay, from Dorsetshire and Devonshire, is mixed with water, and in this state, as well as the flint, is passed through fine sieves to separate the grosser particles. The flint and clay are now mixed by measure, and the mud or cream is passed again through a sieve, in order to render the mixture more complete. In this state it is called slip, is then evaporated to a proper consistence in long brick troughs, and tempered in the pug-mill. Cups, pots, basins, and other round articles are turned rough on the horizontal potter'
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ater, which issues in a spray from the rose at the end of the pipe d. Savery's engine was employed with good results in the drainage of mines in Cornwall and Devonshire, though at an expense for fuel that we should consider terribly wasteful. His was perhaps the first valuable working machine. Hero, Leonardo da Vinci, and P, and formed chutes. Stone′ware. A grade of ceramic ware of great hardness and value. The stoneware of London is made of pipe-clay from Dorsetshire and Devonshire, calcined and ground flint from Staffordshire, and sand from Woolwich and Charlton. The dry clay is pulverized and sifted. The ingredients are compounded in dpended upon the high firing to which it had been subjected. For this purpose, rejecting the common clays of his neighborhood, he sent as far as Dorsetshire and Devonshire for the whiter and purer pipe-clays of those counties. For the silicious ingredient of his composition, he made choice of chalkflints calcined and ground to po
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
of loss; and by blowing on the bulb, to indicate the degree of combustion that takes place in the lungs. Thermo-si′phon. A siphon attachment to hot-water heating-apparatus, invented by two engineers, — Kewley of London, and Fowler of Devonshire, England. They found that the circulation of the water was greatly increased by passing it through the two legs of a siphon, especially when the tubes were irregular in point of horizontal direction, and both above and below the level of the boileostle (which see). The twist is usually in a direction the reverse of that given to the individual yarns. Thread of fine quality was imported into England from Holland and Flanders for many centuries. The thread for making the Honiton (Devonshire, England) lace was imported from Antwerp. Long-fibered cotton, as Sea Island, or Egyptian, is best adapted for making thread. Sewing-thread undergoes the following operations in the process of manufacture:— 1. It is passed through a picker, <
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
rom it a wiser and a better man. From the family we learn that: 1851 John Brown and his family returned to Akron, Ohio, where he managed Mr. Perkins's farm, and carried on the wool business. In 1855, on starting for Kansas, he again moved his household to North Elba, where they still reside, and where his body lies buried. At the Agricultural Fair of Essex County, for 1850, a great sensation was created by the unlooked — for appearance on the grounds of a beautiful herd of Devon cattle. They were the first that had been exhibited at the county festival, and every one was surprised and delighted at the incident. The inquiry was universal, Whose are these cattle, and from whence do they come? The surprise and excitement were not diminished when it was understood that a certain John Brown was the owner, and that he resided in the town of North Elba. The report of the society for that year contains the following reference to that event: The appearance upon the groun
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 5: North Elba. (search)
rom it a wiser and a better man. From the family we learn that: 1851 John Brown and his family returned to Akron, Ohio, where he managed Mr. Perkins's farm, and carried on the wool business. In 1855, on starting for Kansas, he again moved his household to North Elba, where they still reside, and where his body lies buried. At the Agricultural Fair of Essex County, for 1850, a great sensation was created by the unlooked — for appearance on the grounds of a beautiful herd of Devon cattle. They were the first that had been exhibited at the county festival, and every one was surprised and delighted at the incident. The inquiry was universal, Whose are these cattle, and from whence do they come? The surprise and excitement were not diminished when it was understood that a certain John Brown was the owner, and that he resided in the town of North Elba. The report of the society for that year contains the following reference to that event: The appearance upon the groun
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 8: to England and the Continent.—1867. (search)
hose name had ever been an honored one in her mother's house. A day or two later he received a note from the (Dowager) Duchess of Sutherland herself, who was now a great invalid and sojourning at Chiswick House, one of the seats of the Duke of Devonshire. The Duchess of Sutherland to W. L. Garrison. Chiswick, June 21. Ms. Dear sir: I did not hear without great emotion that you are returned to England, and I look forward with great happiness to meet you in these better times. I aBrussels, Oct. 2-8. seeing the Rhine, also, from Mayence to Cologne. Oct. 6. One more week was given to London, and two evenings Oct. 9-16. of this were occupied by receptions and suppers tendered by the National Freedmen's Aid Union, at Devonshire Oct. 14. House, the headquarters of the Society of Friends in London, and the National Temperance League, in the Oct. 15. Strand. The former was presided over by the venerable and indefatigable abolitionist, Joseph Cooper, whom Mr. Garrison
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 10: the voyage and Arrival.—December, 1837, to January, 1838— age, 26-27. (search)
e just left the dinner-table, where I remembered all in a glass of Burgundy. In both letters, as in his journal, he dwelt upon the historic scenes which belong to the English Channel. While writing the letter to Judge Story, a French whaleman came in sight, the tricolor flapping in the wind, the first sail seen during the voyage,—a refreshing sight, but momentary, as both vessels were speeding in opposite directions. On the evening of the 25th, the captain descried dimly Start Point, in Devonshire; and the next morning Sumner saw Cape Barfleur, about fifteen miles to the right, –his first glimpse of Europe, and the first land he had seen since the afternoon of the eighth, when he went below while the headlands of New Jersey were indistinctly visible on the distant horizon. On account of unfavorable winds encountered in the Channel, the Albany did not come to anchor at the Havre docks till early on the morning of the 28th,—less than twenty days from the time of sailing. Journ<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
the founder of the Spectator. He was previously editor of the Dundee Advertiser. that I thought the better way was to work on under the present ministry, constantly getting liberal peers and bishops, as long as possible, rather than to make war against them. Day before yesterday, I was regretting that I was obliged to decline a second invitation to dinner from Lord Denman, on account of a previous engagement. At my dinner, however, I met the old Earl Devon, William, eleventh Earl of Devon; he died in 1859, aged eighty-two.—the representative of the great Courtenay family, celebrated by Gibbon, The Decline and Fall, Chap. LXI.—Lord Plunkett, William Conyngham Plunkett, 1765-1854. He was successively Solicitor and Attorney General in Ireland; became a peer and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, in 1827, and was Lord Chancellor of Ireland, with a brief interval, from 1830 to 1841. He opposed in the Irish Parliament the union with England, and subsequently too
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
stopping at Plymouth; being received by the commander of the largest ship in port, a barge placed at my orders to visit any ship I wished, and an officer designated to show me over the dockyard. From Exeter I went up through the green fields of Devon and Somerset to the delicious parsonage of Sydney Smith, The following note is preserved:— Combe Florey, Taunton, Aug. 16, 1838. My dear Sir,—I have a great admiration of Americans, and have met a great number of agreeable, enlightened A, that I would have sworn to its identity. Holkham House, Murray's Handbook,—Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire,—pp. 254-261. Nov. 2, 1838. This house has not the fresh magnificence of Chatsworth (the princely residence of the Duke of Devonshire), the feudal air of Raby and Auckland castles, or the grand front of Wentworth; but it seems to me to blend more magnificence and comfort, and to hold a more complete collection of interesting things, whether antiques, pictures, or manuscript
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17: London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
en, at Christ Church; fourth, to Wortley, at Merton. I then go to Cambridge, where my first day is engaged to Whewell, &c. A few days ago I received a most friendly and affectionate letter from Lord Morpeth, in which he enclosed a letter of introduction to the Countess of Granville, Lady Granville (Henrietta Elizabeth) was the wife of Lord Granville, then English Ambassador at Paris. She and her sister, Georgiana, who was Lord Morpeth's mother, were the daughters of the fifth earl of Devonshire. Lord Granville died in 1846, and Lady Granville in 1862. His son is a distinguished statesman. now in Paris. Sir Robert Inglis expressed himself to-night in terms of the highest admiration of Dr. Channing's Texas, which is a good deal from such a churchman. I passed a very pleasant evening last week—till long past midnight—with Mr. and Mrs. Basil Montagu. Basil Montagu, 1770-1851. He was educated at Cambridge, and called to the bar in 1798. He made the Law of Bankruptcy, both i
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