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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
8, 1866. (Reissue.)3,214ConantNov. 24, 1868. 93,615HancockAug. 10, 1869. 2. （e.) Two or more Kinds of Stitches. 26,059ScofieldNov. 8, 1859. 77,889KerrMay 12, 1868. class B. — making lock-stitch. 1. By Shuttle. (a.) Shuttles reciprocate. No.Name.Date. 4,750HoweSept. 10, 1846. 5,942BradshawNov. 28, 1848. (Reiss866. 58,366AndrewsOct. 2, 1866. 60,433SingerDec. 11, 1866. 61,270SingerJan. 15, 1867. 76,807PepperApr. 14, 1868. 76,950SherwoodApr. 21, 1868. 77,715ChabotMay 12, 1868. 80,907ByrkitAug. 11, 1868. 86,848MacaulayFeb. 9, 1869. 89,417McArthurApr. 27, 1869. 93,665DavisJuly 27, 1869. 96,713LyonNov. 9, 1869. 96,886CleverNov. 1rs the movable bottom of a mercury chamber and elevates or depresses a column of mercury rising from the said chamber. Keeler's speed-measurer. Bowsher, May 12, 1868. An indicator. It has a governor arrangement, the sliding collar actuated by the balls pulling upon a cord, which turns the spindle of the pointer-finger and
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
Antedated. et al., Nov. 20, 1866. 59,902.Fell et al., Nov. 20, 1866. 62,097.Van Der Weyde, Antedated. Feb. 12, 1867. 62,130.Hannen, Feb. 19, 1867. 64,763.Hannen, May 14, 1867. 66,137.Fell et al, June 25, 1867. 66,138.Fell et al., June 25, 1867. See also zinc-white. No.Name and Date. 66,139.Fell Antedated. et al., June 25, 1867. 66,140.Fell Antedated. et al., June 25, 1867. 67,992.Lewis, Aug. 20, 1867. 70,990.Gattman, Antedated. Nov. 19, 1867. 77,818.Jacobi, May 12, 1868. 80,168.Hannen, Reissued. July 21, 1868. 83,357.Bartlett, Oct. 27, 1868. 85,796.Dale et al., Patented in England. Jan. 12, 1869. 86,835.Hannen, Antedated. Feb 9, 1869. 89,074.Retkirt, Apr. 20, 1869. 91,267.Repetti, June 15, 1869. 91,466.Mayer, June 15, 1869. 92,816.Gattman, July 20, 1869. 94,214.Jacobi, Aug. 31, 1869. 95,075.Bradley, Sept 21, 1869. 95,097.Dwelle, Sept. 21, 1869. 95,201.Cuddy, Sept. 28, 1869. 97,355.Dale et al., Nov. 30, 1869. 97,936.Lewis et al.,
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 21: 1865-1868: Aet. 58-61. (search)
earlier investigations, inasmuch as it reconstructed the once rich flora of the polar regions as he himself had reconstructed the fauna of past geological times; it clothed their frozen fields with forests as he had sheeted now fertile lands with ice. In short, it appealed powerfully to the imagination, and no child in the tedious hours of convalescence was ever more beguiled by a story-book than he by the pictures which this erudite work called up. Agassiz to Oswald Heer. Cambridge, May 12, 1868. my honored colleague,—Your beautiful book on the Fossil Arctic Flora reached me, just as I was recovering from a tedious and painful illness. I could, therefore, take it in hand at once, and have been delighted with it. You give a captivating picture of the successive changes which the Arctic regions have undergone. No work could be more valuable, either as a means of opening recent investigations in Paleontology to the larger public, or of advancing science itself. If I can find t