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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
orizontally, and a vertical screw so placed as to be over the stack containing the cigars; the side press-board slides in the slotted sides of the horizontal boards. The cigars are arranged upon the boards with intervening slats. Ci-gar-steamer. A peculiar form of craft, shaped like a spindle, and constructed by Winans, of Baltimore. The first was built in Baltimore — length, 635 feet; diameter, 16 feet. Second, in St. Petersburg — length, 70 feet; diameter, 9 feet. Third, in Havre — length, 72 feet; diameter, 9 feet. Fourth, in Isle of Dogs — length 256 feet; diameter, 16 feet. The propeller of the first was placed around the middle of the vessel; the second had a propeller beneath her bottom; the third is fitted for trying propellers in various positions; and the fourth has a propeller at each end. Cim′e-ter; Scim′e-ter. An Oriental cavalry sword with a blade of great curvature. Cinc′ture. （Architecture.) A fillet or ring dividing the cap
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
a central post and swings 90°, opening two passages for vessels, one on each side. This is a pivot-bridge. 3. The bascule-bridge turns on a horizontal pivot, standing in a vertical position on the side of the water-way while the vessel passes by. The inner end is in excess of the weight of the roadway and descends into a pit built with hydraulic masonry. This pit is not material, perhaps, in fortifications, but is not desirable in ordinary road or dock work. The bascule may be seen at Havre and Hull. See Basculebridge. Rolling-bridge. 4. The rolling-bridge has been introduced on some English railways. The bridge passes laterally upon a carriage until it has passed the junction of the line of rails, and then rolls inward to leave the water-way clear. In the example, the movable cars or platforms are suspended by rods and form traveling trucks, which run upon rails laid on the top of metallic tubes supported on pillars, and which serve also as viaducts, by which means
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), J. (search)
olid mass; in fact, beton itself makes a wall of such tenacity that its strength is equal to a homogeneous block. When the ashlar masonry is filled in with earth it requires a bond; when this is of masonry, the counterforts take the form of division-walls, which thus reduce the jetty to a series of compartments. The stones of these horizontal bonding courses should be cramped and joggled together, and the top carefully paved to prevent infiltration. The southern jetty (D) of the port of Havre is exposed to violent storms and a powerful littoral current. It exemplifies the ashlar facing, horizontal bonding-walls, rubble filling, paving, parapets, aprons of piles and pierre-perdue to protect the foundations from the repercussion of the waves, all executed in a style which has provoked the admiration of those who have understandingly examined it. In the course of the improvement of the months of the Rhine, the northern arm of the Maese is being widened, dredged, and extended int
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), Q. (search)
upies the same relation to a harbor that a wharf does to a river. Harbors and docks are provided with quays, and their construction involves some of the precautions incident to the building of jetties, sea-walls, retaining walls, etc. The quay, however, is not subjected to the violent action of the waves incident to the construction first mentioned and to breakwaters. The thrust of the soil is, perhaps, the greatest force tending to its destruction. The quay-wall of the outer harbor of Havre has a mean thickness equal to 0.40 of its hight, and batters on both sides by a series of steps. Rennie advised a curvilinear batter on both sides, laying the courses normally to the curve. This entails the necessity of using inclined piles, which introduces an element of insecurity. The face of the quay-wall forms the intrados of an arch and makes the ashlars mutually sustaining. Whether the latter advantage overbalance the detrimental effect of inclined piling is doubtful. Quay-wa
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
etc. Piling; double sheet-piling, with interposed puddle or rubble; earthen embankments, with or without walls of puddle, to render them water-proof; bundles of reeds, fascines, or gabions, laid in cross tiers with strata of soil, and secured by stakes or masonry. Another form of sea-wall E is extensively used in the banks of the polders of Holland. It consists of a double row of sheetpiling inclosing a puddle dike of retentive soil. The foot is protected by an apron of rubble. At Havre an embankment of earthwork is formed behind a vertical inclosure of sheet-piling, as shown at F. The piles of the face are fastened by diagonal ties to the rear row of piles. The foot is protected by rubble or coursed masonry, according to the character of the ground, the exposure to currents, etc. Sea-wall. In Fig. 4801, A B illustrates the sea-wall now being built along the water-front of New York City. Beyond this, piers will project into the stream. In the execution of the wor
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 13: (search)
g the lectures at the college, and in using means for the restoration of his health. These were so far effectual, that he was able again to visit Italy in the spring. Returning thence to Paris, he still found the state of his health improving. Here he had the pleasure of meeting his friend Theodore Parker, an invalid on his way to Italy (where he died May 10, 1860), and of learning that the degree of Ll.D. had been conferred on him by Harvard University. Spending the month of August in Havre for the benefit of sea-bathing, Mr. Sumner returned to Paris in the autumn almost entirely well; and with exquisite pleasure visited La Grange, the country home of Lafayette, whose noble character and public services he held in great admiration. In his grand address on Lafayette, the faithful one, at Cooper Institute, New York, Nov. 30, 1860, he thus spoke of his excursion and the place:-- On a clear and lovely day of October, in company with a friend, I visited this famous seat, which a
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 15: the third trip to Europe, 1859. (search)
materialism, but if I am to rest there, I would rend the veil. June 1. The day of the packet's sailing. I shall hope to be visited by you here. The best flowers sent me have been placed in your little vases, giving life, as it were, to the remembrance of you, though not to pass away like them. Ever yours, A. T. Noel Byron. The entire family, with the exception of the youngest son, was abroad at this time. The two eldest daughters were in Paris, having previously sailed for Havre in March, in company with their cousin, Miss Beecher. On their arrival in Paris, they went directly to the house of their old friend, Madame Borione, and soon afterwards entered a Protestant school. The rest of the family, including Mrs. Stowe, her husband and youngest daughter, sailed for Liverpool early in August. At about the same time, Fred Stowe, in company with his friend Samuel Scoville, took passage for the same port in a sailing vessel. A comprehensive outline of the earlier por
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Sixth: the interval of illness and repose. (search)
of 1857. After being sworn in for his second term, on the 4th of March, he yielded to the persuasion of his friends, who were unanimous in the opinion that nothing but rest and recreation could restore him; and on the 7th of March he sailed for Havre. Vii. He was no stranger in Europe. Throughout the British Islands, and on the Continent, all the great men in science, in literature, in jurisprudence, with the friends of humanity, were prepared to give him the most generous greeting. ature only one or two degrees in the year, and whose climate combines all the soft and genial influences so completely embraced in the term mezzo giorno, and far away from the fire-life Americans lead, he was now on the road to substantial recovery. After one more rapid dash through Italy, he reported himself in Paris to Dr. Brown-Sequard, who now pronounced him well. For a month he took the seabaths at Havre, and at the opening of Congress in December, he was once more in his Senatorial seat.
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Vi. (search)
d medical men of Boston could give, he remained several months, as quietly as possible, in his own house, most of the time lying on the sofa or bed. Meantime, in this state of prostration, with no immediate prospect of recovery, he had been reflected for the second term to the Senate of the United States by unanimity almost without a parallel. The vote of the Senate was given to him without a dissenting voice; and in the Assembly, constituted of several hundred members, there were only a few scattering votes. At last he felt so much restored that, against the persuasion of many friends, he started for Washington, reaching the Capital just before the close of the session, but in time to determine by his vote the fate of the Tariff of 1857. After being sworn in for his second term, on the 4th of March, he yielded to the persuasion of his friends, who were unanimous in the opinion that nothing but rest and recreation could restore him; and on the 7th of March he sailed for Havre.
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Ix. (search)
Ix. No portion of the earth approaches nearer to the ideal of the invalid's paradise, than the south of France. Bordering on the Mediterranean, That tideless sea, Which ceaseless rolls eternally; whose waters vary in temperature only one or two degrees in the year, and whose climate combines all the soft and genial influences so completely embraced in the term mezzo giorno, and far away from the fire-life Americans lead, he was now on the road to substantial recovery. After one more rapid dash through Italy, he reported himself in Paris to Dr. Brown-Sequard, who now pronounced him well. For a month he took the seabaths at Havre, and at the opening of Congress in December, he was once more in his Senatorial seat.
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