Technique In Art
Technique In Art. Technique Is The Manner Of Artis Tic Execution, The Performance Or Method Of Manipulation In Any Art, But As To Just How Inclusive This Definition Should Be Regarded Is A Question. Certain Authorities Claim That Technique Is Distinct From Any Consideration Of General Effect Or Expression, While ...
Tecumthe Or Tecumtha Tecumseh
Tecumseh, Tecumthe Or Tecumtha (c. 1768— 1813), American Shawnee Chief, Was Born Probably In The Old Shawnee Village Of Piqua, Near The Site Of Springfield (0.), Be Tween 1768 And 1780. While Still A Youth He Took Part In Attacks On Settlers Passing Down The Ohio River And In Widely ...
Tegea
Tegea, An Ancient Greek City Of Arcadia, On A Plateau Enclosed By Mts. Parthenium And Maenalus On East And West, And By Transverse Ranges Which Separate It From The Plateau Of Or Chomenus And From The Eurotas Valley. Tegean Territory Occu Pied The Southern Part Of This Plain ; The ...
Tehran
Tehran (te-rahn'), Capital Of Persia And Of A Province Of That Name, Is Situated Li 41' N., 25' E., At An Elevation Of 3,810 Ft., On An Extensive Gravel Deposit Which Slopes Down From The Foot Of The Elburz Mountains (some Io M. Distant) And Ex Tends For 51 Miles ...
Tehran Province
Tehran Province Is Bounded North By Mazanderan, West By Kazvin And Hamadan, South By Qum, And East By Semnan-damghan Provinces, And It Em Braces A Large Part Of The Southern Slopes Of The Elburz Range, While Again To The South Is Found The Daria-i-namak, A Salt Lake, Or Morass, Which ...
Tehuantepec
Tehuantepec, An Isth Mus Of Mexico Lying Between The Gulfs Of Campeche (campeachy) And Tehuantepec, With The Mex Ican States Of Tabasco And Chi Apas On The East And Vera Cruz And Oaxaca On The West. It In Cludes That Part Of Mexico Lying Between The 94th And 96th Meridians ...
Tektite
Tektite, The Name Given By F. E. Suess To The Glass Bodies Occurring Isolated On The Surface Or In Gravels, In Moravia And Bohemia, Where They Are Called Moldavites, The East Indies, Where They Are Known As Billitonites, And Australia, There Known Under The Name Of Australites And Obsidianites (from ...
Tel El Amarna
Tel El Amarna, The Name Now Given To A Collection Of Ruins And Rock Tombs In Upper Egypt Near The East Bank Of The Nile, 58 M. By River Below Assiut And 190 M. Above Cairo. The Ruins Are Those Of Akhet-aton, A City Built C. 1360 B.c. By Ikhnaton ...
Telegraph
Telegraph. (see Also Signalling.) Before The Chris Tian Era The Bounds Of Electrical Knowledge Were Confined To Two Facts : The Attracting Properties Of Rubbed Amber, And The Magnetic Attraction Of The Lodestone; But Although These Phenomena Were Noted By Homer In The 12th Century B.c. And Others In Later ...
Telephone
Telephone. In A Broad Sense, The Term Telephone Or Tele Phony Includes The Entire Art Of Speech Transmission With The Many Accessories And Operating Methods Which Research, Develop Ment, And Invention Have Supplied To Facilitate And Extend Con Versation At A Distance By Electrical Means. The Telephone Was Invented In ...
Telephone Plant In The
Telephone Plant In The United States The Term "telephone Plant" Includes (i) The Telephone Appara Tus And Wiring At The Subscribers' Premises; (2) The Central Office Switching Equipment (with The Buildings That Contain It) For Inter Connecting Subscribers' Lines; And (3) The Aerial And Underground Wires And Cables With Their ...
Telephone In Various Countries
Telephone In Various Countries The Introduction Of The Telephone And The Development Of The Business In Countries Other Than The United States Will Be Briefly Outlined In The Following Paragraphs. The Post-war Expansion Of International Telephone Communications In Europe, The Recent Development Of Long Distance Telephone Cable Facilities In The ...
Telephotography
Telephotography, The Electrical Transmission Of Pictures, Is An Art About As Old As The Automobile. As Early As 1881 Bidwell In London Transmitted Pictures; Korn In Germany In 1902; Belin In Paris In 1907; Jenkins In Washington And Ranger In New York In 1924; And In 1925 Ives And Other ...
Telescope
Telescope, An Optical Instrument Employed To View Dis Tant Objects (gr. Tip?e, Far, Oworei), To See). Achievements, Together With The Immense Improvement Of The Instrument Under The Hands Of Galileo, Overshadowed In A Great Degree The Credit Due To The Original Discoverer, And Led To The Universal Adoption Of The ...
Telescopic Investigation
Telescopic Investigation General Characteristics.—the Sun Presents To The Telescopic View A Dazzling White Circular Disc, With A Sharp Edge, Whose Diameter Subtends An Angle Of About Half A Degree. Slight But Systematic Variations Of The Angular Diameter Reveal The That The Distance From The Earth To The Sun Is Not ...
Teletypesetter
Teletypesetter, A New Invention To Set Type By Tele Graph. It Operates Automatically Either A Linotype Or Intertype Typesetting Machine And Will Considerably Increase Production. It Is Estimated That One Man Can Easily Operate Four Or Five Of Them When Controlled By Teletypesetters. .from One Transmitting Distributor, Type Will Be ...
Television
Television, By Virtue Of Usage, Has Come To Mean The Transmission, To A Distant Point, Usually By Electrical Means, Of Moving Scenes, To Be Viewed At The Distant Point Practically Sim Ultaneously With Their Original Occurrence. Television Is Thus Differentiated From The Viewing Of Distant Events By A Telescope, From ...
Tellurium
Tellurium, A Chemical Element And The Third Member Of The Sulphur And Selenium Family (symbol Te, Atomic Number 52, Atomic Weight 127.5). It Is A Complex Element Having Three Isotopes (q.v.) With Atomic Weights 126, 128 And 130. Tellurium Is A Brittle, Silvery White, Metallic Substance Of Specific Gravity 6.27; ...
Telpherage
Telpherage. During The World War The Italian Army Made Extensive Use Of The Telpher (see Mono-rails And Tel Phers) System Of Transport For Fighting In The Alps. It Had Prev Iously Been Thought Impossible To Conduct Military Operations On The High Peaks, But The Early Days Of The War Saw ...
Tempera
Tempera, The Name Given To The Painting Processes In Which The Medium Employed Is An Albuminous, Gelatinous Or Colloidal Material. Practically, This Is Equivalent To Saying That Any Painting Process In Which A Vehicle, Or Binding Material, Other Than Oil Is Employed Is Tempera. "there Is No Doubt That While ...
Temperament
Temperament, In Psychology, Means A Kind Of Lasting Emotional Mood Or Temper. Some People Are Habitually Cheer Ful, Others Are As Habitually Melancholy, And So On. The Oldest Known Classification Of Temperaments Is Considerably Over Two Thousand Years Old, And The Names Associated With That Classifica Tion Are Still In ...
Temperance
Temperance. The Word "temperance," Which Strictly Means Moderation, Has Acquired A Particular Meaning In Connec Tion With Intoxicating Liquor, And It Is Here Used In That Sense. Ably Came Into Use Very Gradually, But Once The Art Of Distillation Had Been Mastered It Was Extended To Other Alcoholic Substances In ...
Templars
Templars. The Knights Templars, Or Poor Knights Of Christ And Of The Temple Of Solomon (pauperes Commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici), Formed One Of The Three Great Military Orders, Founded In The I2th Century. Unlike The Hospital Lers And The Teutonic Knights It Was A Military Order From Its Very Origin. ...
Temple
Temple, A Word Signifying, Loosely, Any Enclosed Space Or Structure Erected For Purposes Of Worship, Or To Protect A Cult Image Or Cult Objects. In A Figurative Sense The Word Is Used For (i) Any Shrine ; (2) Any Building Built In A Style Similar To That Of A Classic ...
Teneriffe
Teneriffe [tenerife], The Largest Of The Canary Islands; Pop. (1900) 138,008; Area, 782 Sq.m. Of Irregular Shape, 6o M. Long, 3o M. Wide, It Is The Main Portion Of The Spanish Province Of Santa Cruz Of Teneriffe (pop. 1930 304,137). The Celebrated Peak Locally Known As The Pico De Teyde ...
Tennessee
Tennessee (ten"e-se'), Popularly Known As The "volunteer State," Is A S. Central State Of The American Union. It Lies Between Lat. 35° And 36° 4o' N. And Between Long. 81° 37' And 9o° 28' W. Of Greenwich. Tennessee Is Bounded On The North By Kentucky And Virginia ; On The ...
Tennessee River
Tennessee River, The Largest Tributary Of The Ohio River, U.s.a. It Is Formed By The Confluence Of The Holston And The French Broad Rivers 4.5m. Above Knoxville (tenn.), Flows South South-west To Chattanooga, There Turns West Through The Cumberland Plateau And Into The North-east Corner Of Alabama, Continues West Across ...
Tensor Analysis
Tensor Analysis. The Concept Of Tensors And The Knowledge Of Some Of Their Properties Can Be Traced Back To Gauss, Riemann And Christoffel, But Their Algebra And Analysis Have Been Shaped Into A Systematic Method Only Recently, 1900, By Ricci And Levi-civita, Who Coined For This Rowerful Branch Of Mathematics ...
Tenterden
Tenterden, A Market Town And Municipal Borough In The Ashford Parliamentary Division Of Kent, England, 53 M. S.e. By E. Of London By The S. Railway. Pop. (1931) 3,473. It Lies On An Elevation Above The Newnill Channel, A Tributary Of The Rother, Whose Flat Valley, Called The Rother Levels, ...
Tenure
Tenure, In Law, The Holding Or Possession Of Land. The Holding Of Land In England Was Originally Either Allodial Or Feudal. Allodial Land Was Land Held Not Of A Superior Lord, But Of The King And People. Such Ownership Was Absolute (see Allodium). The Saxon Invasion Tended, Without Doubt, To ...
Ter Borch
Ter Borch (or Terburg), Gerard (1617-1681), Dutch Subject Painter, Was Born In 1617 At Zwolle, Holland. He Received An Excellent Education From His Father, Also An Artist, And Developed His Talent Very Early. The Inscription On A Study Of A Head Proves That Ter Borch Was At Amsterdam In 1632. ...
Teredo
Teredo. From Time Immemorial Seafaring Men Have Known And Dreaded The Shipworm, Which Bores Into And Destroys The Stoutest Timbers In The Sea. Nowadays, Although The Danger To Ships Is No Longer To Be Feared, The Timber Of Harbour Works Is Still Exposed To Damage By The Same Pest. How ...
Terek
Terek, A River Of Russia Flowing From The Caucasus Range To The Caspian Sea, Rising In Glaciers On Mount Kasbek. It Skirts The Kasbek Group On The South And West, And Flows Through A Series Of Gorges. The Most Famous Is The Darial Gorge By Which The Terek Escapes To ...
Terence Publius Terentius Afer
Terence (publius Terentius Afer) (c. 190–c. 159 B.c.), Roman Comic Poet, Was Born In Carthage And Came To Rome As A Slave In The House Of Terentius Lucanus, A Senator, By Whom He Was Educated And Manumitted. The Little That Is Known Of His Life Is Almost Entirely Derived From ...
Term
Term, In Logic, Means The Subject Or Predicate Of A Judgment (or Proposition). It Is, However, Commonly Used In A Much Wider Sense So As To Include Also Any Word Or Combination Of Words That Is Capable Of Being Used As The Subject Or Predicate Of A Proposition. Of The ...
Terminus
Terminus [lat. A Boundary Stone], A Stone Or Post Which Was Set Up In The Ground With The Following Religious Ceremonies. A Hole Was Dug And A Fire Lighted ; A Victim Was Sacrificed And Its Blood Poured Into The Hole, Together With Incense And Fruits, Honey And Wine, And ...
Ternate
Ternate, The Northernmost Of The Line Of Islands Off The Western Coast Of Halmaheira, Dutch East Indies, Which Stretch Southwards To The Bachian Archipelago. It Has An Area Of 25 Sq.m., A Width Of Six Miles, And Consists Mainly Of A Conical Volcano 5,600 Ft. In Height, With Three Peaks ...
Terni
Terni (anc. Interamna Nahars), A Town, Episcopal See, And Capital Of A Province Of Umbria, Italy, Situated Among The Apen Nines, 426 Ft. Above Sea-level, In The Valley Of The Nera (anc. Nar), From Which The Town Took Its Distinguishing Epithet, 5 M. Below Its Junction With The Velino, And ...
Terpenes
Terpenes, In Chemistry, Is The Generic Name Of A Number Of Unsaturated Cyclic Hydrocarbons, Which Are Usually Classified In Three Groups : Terpenes Proper, Cialio: Sesquiterpenes, C,511,4: And Polyterpenes, (c5h8).. Sometimes Hemiterpenes, And Also A Series Of So-called Olefinic Terpenes Are Included, But The Latter Are All Open-chain Compounds. (see ...
Terpenes Proper
Terpenes Proper Most Of The Terpenes Proper Which Occur Naturally Are Colour Less Highly Refractive Fragrant Liquids, Of Lower Density Than Water; Camphene And Bornylene (the Latter Is A Synthetic Labora Tory Product) Are Crystalline Solids Of Low Melting Points. They Usually Boil Between 15o° And 18o° C And Are ...
Terra Cotta
Terra-cotta. The Making Of Figures, Bowls And Vases Of Baked Clay Is One Of The Most Primitive Of The Arts And Has Always Been Carried To A Point Rivalling All Other Arts In Technical Skill And Finesse. Various Prehistoric Figures Indicate A High De Gree Of Artistry And An Excellent ...
Terracina
Terracina, A Town And Episcopal See Of The Province Of Rome, Italy, 63 M. S.e. Of Rome By Rail (56 By The Via Appia), 40 Ft. Above Sea-level. Pop. (1931) (town), 18,562 (corn Mune). Its Position, At The Point Where The Volscian Hills Reach The Coast, Leaving No Space For ...
Terre Haute
Terre Haute (terie Hot), A City Of Western Indiana, U.s.a., On The Wabash River, 73 M. W.s.w. Of Indianapolis; County Seat Of Vigo County. It Is On Federal Highways 4o And 41; Has A Municipal Airport ; And Is Served By The Big Four, The Chicago And Eastern Illinois, The ...
Terrestrial Magnetism
Terrestrial Magnetism, The Science Pertaining To The Study Of The Magnetic Phenomena Of The Earth. It Is Probable That The Directive Property Of Loadstone Was Dis Covered Independently In Europe And In China, But At A Much Earlier Date In The Latter Than In The Former. It Is Unlikely That ...
Territorial Army
Territorial Army. The End Of The Nineteenth Cen Tury Saw A Situation Very Similar To That At The End Of The Eight Eenth Century. The Possibility Of Great Britain's Being Engaged In A Major War, And Fear That An Enemy Would Attempt An Invasion Of The British Isles. Like So ...
Tertiaries
Tertiaries, Associations Of ,lay Folk In Connection With The Mendicant Orders. The Old Monastic Orders Had Had Attached To Their Abbeys Confraternities Of Lay Men And Women, Who Were Made Partakers In All The Religious Exercises And Other Good Works Of The Community To Which They Were Affiliated, And They ...
Tertullian
Tertullian (c. 222), Whose Full Name Was Quin Tus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, Is The Earliest And After Augustine The Greatest Of The Ancient Church Writers Of The West. Before Him The Whole Christian Literature In The Latin Language Consisted Of A Translation Of The Bible, The Octavius Of Minucius Felix ...
Teschen
Teschen, A Town And District Of Poland And Czechoslovakia. Teschen (czech Tegin, Polish, Cieszyn), Lies In The South-east Corner Of Silesia, And Was A Duchy Disputed Between The Kings Of Poland And Bohemia From The 9th Century Onward. In The 17th Century It Came Under Habsburg Rule. It Is 852•6 ...
Test Acts
Test Acts. The Principle That None But Persons Professing The Established Religion Were Eligible For Public Employment Was Adopted By The Legislatures Of Both England And Scotland Soon After The Reformation. In England The Acts Of Supremacy And Uniformity And The Severe Penalties Pronounced Against Recusants, Whether Roman Catholic Or ...