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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 4 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 2 2 Browse Search
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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
f this kind, used to supply the garrison of the Memphite Babylon, on the Nile, and worked by 150 men. It was also used as a draining pump by the Turdetani of Iberia in the time of Strabo. This was the country of the Guadalquiver. See screw, Archimedean. Ar′chi-tecture. The classic orders are five: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian (Greek); Tuscan and Composite (Roman). The more modern is Gothic, which has several varieties: Anglo-Roman, B. C. 55 to A. D. 250; Anglo-Saxon, A. D. 800 to 1066; Anglo-Norman, 1066 to 1135; Early English or Pointed, 1135 to 1272; Pure Gothic, 1272 to 1377; Florid, 1377 to 1509; Elizabethan, 1509 to 1625. The subject is copiously and admirably treated in many excellent works. Its interest in a work of this character is not as an art, but as requiring machinery to hew and shape the stones, construct the foundations and the roof, and also calling for ingenuity in providing the building with its material accessories for safety, ventilation, warmth, lig
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
d by the extent and destructiveness of their fires. He farther cites that the walls of Babylon were of brick cemented with bitumen, and that the latter was imported from thence into Rome as a medicinal agent, and a material for varnishing heads of nails and various other articles of iron. The Romans used large, thin bricks or wall-tiles as a bond in their rubble constructions, and such continued to be used in England until regular masonry was introduced shortly before the Norman Conquest, 1066. After the great fire of London, 1666, brick was substituted for wood in the erection of buildings in London. The ancient nations excelled in the quality of their bricks, which was probably owing to the abundance of labor, good sunshine, and patience. The thorough working and tempering of the clay, to develop its plastic quality, followed by good drying, lengthened seasoning, and careful burning, will account for the quality. In China, the potters work up the clay provided by their fath
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
n.) The amount of land inundated by the Nile is about 5,626 square miles (average). This does not include the river and lakes. Harrows bore the same part in the operations of husbandry in the time of Pliny (A. D. 79) that they do now. After the seed is put in the ground, harrows with long teeth are drawn over it. The common harrow of the Romans was a hurdle, but they also used harrows made of planks studded with iron spikes. The harrow is represented in the tapestry of Bayeaux, A. D. 1066, and is mentioned by Googe, in his Heresbachius, A. D. 1578. An act of the Irish Parliament was passed in 1634, forbidding harnessing horses by the tayles to harrows. See notice under harness, p. 1062. Harrows are made of various forms, and if we reject the harrow, if such it be, on the shoulder of Osiris (a), we may suppose it to have been originally a bundle of bushes (b) tied together at the butts, and thus dragged over the field. A log on the brush — as we of the West term it — wo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
pt upon notched sticks, as almanacs, in which red-letter days were signified by a large notch, ordinary days by small notches, etc. Such were formerly common in most European countries. The Runic Clog-Almanack and the Saxon Reive Pope are of this class, and yet exist in Sweden, and in Staffordshire, England. Somewhat similar was the ancient Briton Coelbren y Beirdd, the billet of the signs of the bards. The mode of keeping accounts by tallies was introduced into England by the Normans, 1066. Seasoned sticks of willow or hazel were provided, and these were notched on the edge to represent the amount. Small notches represented pence; larger, shillings; still larger, pounds; proportionately larger and wider, were 10, 100, 1000 pounds. The stick being now split longitudinally, one piece was given to the creditor, and the other was laid away as a record. When an account was presented for payment, the voucher was compared with the record. Exchequer tally. When paid, the ta