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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 5 5 Browse Search
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 1 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 1 1 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.) 1 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
o the House of Commons, and both were burnt to the ground,—a grand funeral-pile. The bakers insisted for some years in keeping tally-stick record of loaves purchased by their customers; some of us recollect it. The oldest surviving treatises on mathematics are by the famous Alexandrians, Euclid, about B. C. 300; Ptolemy, A. D. 130; and Diophantus, A. D. 156. Decimal fractions were invented 1482. The first work on arithmetic published in England was by Tonstall, Bishop of London, 1522. The Italians had been in that field many years before. （Architecture.) The crown member of the capital of a column. Ab′a-ka. A fiber from which Manilla-rope is made. Ropes and cables of this material float in sea-water. Aba-mu′rus. A buttress or second wall, built to strengthen another. Abap-tis′ton. （Surgical.) A trepan saw. Abat-jour′. （Building.) A skylight, or aperture for the admission of light. Abat-voix′. A sounding-board over a pulp
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
is propelled by a rocket-charge after being fired from a gun. The hinged barbs are secured to the breech-piece in the tube, and the line connected by a looped shank. Harp′si-chord. （Music.) An obsolete stringed instrument resembling a harp laid prostrate, the strings being played by quills operated by keys like those of a piano-forte. Harpoon-rocket. The harpsichord is believed to have been first made by Hans Rucken, in Germany, about 1510. Used in public festivals in Italy, 1522. Improved by Vincentino, 1555. Vertical form invented by Rigoli of Florence, 1620. Pepys, in his Diary (1661), speaks of the harpsichon at Captain Allen's house, where he saw his dear Mrs. Rebecca. The spinet was a similar instrument with one wire for each note, and, like the harpsichord, was played with quills on jacks, operated by keys. The clavicytherium may be considered the original of the whole train of stringed instruments whose strings were mechanically vibrated. See piano
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
The principles on which this projection is founded were first explained by Edward Wright, an Englishman. It is universally employed in nautical charts. My Lord Barkeley wanting some maps, and Sir W. Coventry recommending the six maps of England that are bound up for the pocket, I did offer them. — Pepys's Diary, 1667. The great geographical achievements which distinguished the close of the fifteenth and the early portion of the sixteenth centuries, or the thirty years from 1492 to 1522, consist in the discovery of tropical America, the rapid determination of its form, the passage round the southern point of Africa to India, and the first circumnavigation of the globe. The triangular form of Africa is distinctly laid down in the planisphere of Sanuto as early as 1306; in the Genoese Portulano della Medice Laurenziana of 1351, discovered by Count Baldelli; and in the map of the world by Fra Manro. 1,700 years before this, Herodotus had characterized as incredible the stat
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
supporting a shelf. In the example, the inner end of the horizontal bar of the bracket has a hookcatch, and the lower end of the brace has a notch, which respectively take over or bear against the bars of the vertical series which are placed in the back of the case. Shell. 1. (Ordnance.) A hollow projectile containing a bursting-charge, which is exploded by a time or percussion fuse. (See cannon; projectile; fuse.) Invented at Venlo, 1495; used by the Turks at the siege of Rhodes, 1522. Bomb-vessels were constructed in France, 1681. Shells are usually made of cast-iron, and for mortars and smooth-bore cannon are spherical; but for rifled guns, they are, with the exception of Whitworth's and a few others, cylindrical and have a conoidal point. They are caused to take the grooves in a rifled gun, to receive a rotary motion, by means of a disk or ring, the sabot, which is expanded in act of firing, or by studs on the body of the shell. Those on the Whitworth principle