Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments, Machines, Processes, and Engineering, History of Inventions, General Technological Vocabulary, and Digest of Mechanical Appliances in Science and the Arts, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1876 - 2831 pages |
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Page 223 - And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim ; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD : and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
Page 452 - Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest ; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews; And it floated on the river ; Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily.
Page 50 - But it is a most acceptable thing to hear their discourse, and see their experiments, which were this day on fire, and how it goes out in a place where the ayre is not free, and sooner out where the ayre is exhausted, which they showed by an engine on purpose.
Page 195 - As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live...
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Page 196 - iron, and 200 tons of cast steel, are by' machinery wrought annually into tools. In the most recent process, hammered bar iron is heated to a red heat, cut of the requisite length, and the eye, which is to receive the handle, punched through it. It is then reheated, and pressed between concave dies, until it assumes the proper shape. It is now heated, and grooved upon the edge, to receive the piece of steel which forms the sharp edge. To make the steel adhere to the iron, borax is used. This acts...
Page 20 - Five cubic inches of atmospheric air, at a medium pressure and temperature, are to be introduced into the bulb and tube, of the latter of which it will occupy one-half; the other half of this tube, and part of the tube into which it is inserted, are to be occupied by the fluid of the pneumatic trough, whether water or mercury.
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Page 59 - The instrument consists of a spirit-lamp, surmounted by a small boiler, into which a large cylindric glass bulb is plunged, having an upright stem of such calibre, that the quicksilver contained in them, may, by its expansion and ascent when heated, raise before it a little glass float in the stem, which is connected by a thread with a similar glass bead, that hangs in the air. The thread passes round a pulley, which turning with the motion of the beads, causes the index to move along the graduated...