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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), K. (search)
f a turtle, a plate of tortoise-shell, or an oyster-shell. With their tortoise-shell knives they dexterously cut up their bakolo (long pig), as they call a baked human carcass, to distinguish it from short pig, the swine, whose meat it is said to resemble. Whittling is not a modern or merely American pastime: — A Shefeld thwitel bare he in his hose. Chaucer. Stow says that one Matthews on the Fleet Bridge was the first in England who made fine knives, and that he obtained an act, 1563, against the importation of foreign ones. Clasp or spring knives came to England from Flanders, and were common in 1650. In the manufacture of pocket-knives, a bar of steel destined to furnish a number of blades is heated to redness. A length is cut off, and the forger speedily motals this, that is, shapes it roughly into the form of a pocket-knife blade. Another heating is then required to fit the end for being fashioned into the tang, and another before the operation of smithing,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
the pages pasted together. At first, also, spaces were left for the illuminated capital letters, which were put in by hand. The art was carried to France in 1469; to Italy, in 1465; to Spain, in 1477; to England by Caxton, in 1474. Italy soon took the lead, and long kept it, Venice being the headquarters. In the editions published in the sixteenth century, one half were Italian, and one half of these were Venetian; one seventeenth were English. In Venice, during the Turkish war of 1563, newspapers first made their appearance. The Gazette de France was commenced in 1631. Newspapers were fairly established in England after the decapitation of Charles I. The forms of the old printers were generally either large or small folios, or at least quartos; the lesser sizes were not in use. The leaves were without running-title, direction-word, number of pages, or divisions into paragraphs. The character itself was a rude old Gothic mixed with Secretary, designed on purpose to i
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
hat according to the best information I have been able to obtain, I must class the invention of the drawing-iron, or proper wire-drawing, among those of the fourteenth century. The art was not introduced into England till the sixteenth century, but had attained great excellence in the reign of Charles I. See draw-plate. This does not fully indorse the ascription of the invention to Rodolph of Nuremberg, A. D. 1410, but he may have much improved the art; mills were erected in Nuremberg, 1563. The first wire-mill in England was erected at Mortlake, in 1663. a (Fig. 7262) shows forms of round, oval, half-round, square, and triangular wires. Wires for mechanical uses and for music-printing. b, pinion-wires for watch-makers. c c′, draw-plate and music wire. d, music, as printed with wire type. e e′, fancy wires made for calico-printing rollers; example of the effect of association of the various patterns. f g h (Fig. 7263), Godfrey's wire shoe-peg. Wires