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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 4 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 2 0 Browse Search
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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 1.4, chapter 1.5 (search)
who prophesied great things of him in the future, while I, though not particularly brilliant in any special thing that I can remember, held my own as head of the school. When the Eisteddfod was held at Rhuddlan in 1851, I was the one chosen to represent the genius of the school; but, soon after the nomination, I fell ill of measles, and Toomis succeeded to the honour. Apropos of this: exactly forty years later I was invited to preside over one of the meetings of the Eisteddfod, held at Swansea, but as I was preparing for this honour, a fall at Murren, Switzerland, resulted in the fracture of my left leg, which rendered my appearance impossible. The other boys in the school consisted of the dunces, the indolent, the malingerers, the would-be truants, the dull, the noisy, the fat-witted majority, just six times more numerous than the naturally-able boys. This proportion of one in six is very common in the world. In ships that I have sailed in, among the military companions wit
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
fumes are condensed to prevent their escape into, and contamination of, the atmosphere. These have been tried with more or less success in the copper-works of Swansea, the lead-works of England, and in various other manufactories. The general feature is a prolonged duct for the fumes, with showers of water to condense the arxist. In the Homeric poems, knives, spear-points, and armor were still made of copper. The process of reducing copper ore depends upon its character. Swansea, in South Wales, has the principal part of the work, ores being brought there from Cornwall, Devonshire, Spain, South America, Australia, Africa, and the United States, ation to iron; the latter being liable to rust, especially in contact with oak and by exposure to wet. Cop′per-fur′nace. Copper-smelting, us practiced at Swansea, Wales, consists of the following processes: — 1. Calcination of the ore. This is conducted in a reverberatory furnace. (See calcining-furnace; copper.) The char<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
iron, is calcined in brick ovens, being stirred with iron rods. The resulting black or brown powder is placed on the hearth of a reverberatory smelting-furnace, with such mixture of auriferous, argentiferous, and cupriferous ores as shall produce the reactions which will separate the materials into a floating dross and a pool of metal. The ferruginous slag is drawn off at an upper hole, and a mixture of gold, silver, copper, and iron at a lower hole, forming a matt which is shipped to Swansea, Wales, for complete separation. Gold, im-i-ta′tion. Mock-gold. See jeweler's alloys, p. 63. Gold-leaf. Gold-leaf was made in Egypt 1706 B. C. Homer refers to it. The temple of Solomon was profusely gift. Pliny states that in his time a single ounce admitted of being heaten out into 750 leaves, four fingers in length by the same in breadth. This tenuity is very far exceeded at the present day. In the practice of the art in Europe, the skin of an unborn calf was first used; afterwa
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
area, weighing 89 grains, which, reduced to the former standard of 44 inches area, is equal to 33 grains. The Marshfield tries again, and reduces it to 23 1/2 grains; a thickness of 2,583 sheets to the inch. The Upper Forest Tin-Works, of Swansea, now wear the palm, having produced a sheet 10 × 5 1/2 = 55 inches area, weighing but 20 grains, equal to 16 grains for an area of 44 inches, and having a thickness of 1/4800 of an inch. See also Russia iron. Sheet-ir′on gage. See sheet-tort and subjected to the action of gasoline, and also of charcoal gas, generated in two retorts, by the action of which they are in a few minutes converted into steel, and are afterward ground, polished, and tempered. Mr. J. L. Davies, of Swansea, Wales, states that resin oil intimately mixed with about one fourth its weight of the residue of paraffine stills will restore steel which has been injured by burning. Levallois, of Paris, has patented in France three alloys which are very hard,
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
The Last of Nelson's Officers at Trafalgar.--The London Sunday Times, of May 5, reports :--Lieutenant Roteley died at his residence, May Hill, Swansea, on the 21st, aged 76. Lieut. Roteley was the last surviving officer of the ship Victory, of Trafalgar, having fought with Nelson at the memorable engagement at Trafalgar. He was allowed to retire from full pay about forty years ago, and from that time he has enjoyed his pension. On his retirement he held the rank of Brevet Major in the Venezuelan service. He was much esteemed, and will be regretted by all who knew him. Out of nine hundred men who were on board the Victory at Trafalgar, five only now remain; and Lieut. Roteley was the last surviving officer. He was born at the Castle Hotel, Neath, Glamorganshire.
The Daily Dispatch: October 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], Earthquake in England. (search)
Earthquake in England. --A strong shock of an earthquake was felt in England on the night of the 5th inst. Doors were broken open, crockery ware broken and clocks, stopped. It extended to Bristol, to Taunton, to Exeter, to Swansea, and to many miles out at sea. In some places a deep rumbling noise was heard. At Nottingham the noise resembled the sound of a heavy carriage approaching. Mr. Charles Dickens describes the sensation he experienced: He says that he was awakened by a violent swaying of his bedstead from side to side, accompanied by a singular heaving motion. It was exactly as if some great beast had been crouching asleep under the bed and was shaking itself and trying to rise. The shock appears to have been felt the most in the midland and west midland counties.