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Ste Am-b Oat The Subject Of Steam-boats Has Already Been So Am Ply Treated In A Separate Chapter Of Our Article Siiip Numning, In P. 244 * Of This Volume, That Very Little Remains To Be Clone Under The Present Head. The Action Of Impelling Boats By Mechanical Power Was ...
Steam
Steam Is The Name Generally Given To The Visible Vapour Which Is Driven Off From Fluids Or Moist Bodies By Heat. It Is Most Frequently Applied, However, To Denote Aqueous Vapour, Or The Vapour Raised From Wa Ter By Ebullition. When Water, Exposed To The Pressure Of The Atmos Phere, ...
Steam Carriage
Steam Carriage.. The Idea Of Driving Car Riages By Means Of Mechanical Power Is Of Con Siderable Antiquity, And In The Older Works On Me Chanics, We Meet With Drawings Of Carriages Impelled By The Action Of Wind Upon Sails, And Of Others Driven By The Action Of The Feet ...
Steam Drying
Steam Drying Machine.—the Mode Of Drying Linen And Other Cloths By Steam Was First Sug Gested By Mr. Watt, Who, So Early As January 1781, Contrived A Machine Of This Purpose For His Relation, Mr. James Macgregor, Clober, Near Glasgow. This Machine Was Erected, But No Description Of The In ...
Steam Engine
Steam Engine Is The Name Given To A Machine In Which The Moving Power Is Obtained From The Elastic Force Of Steam, And From Its Capability Of Being Con Densed Into Water, And Thus Creating A Vacuum In The Space Which It Occupied. Like Every Other Invention Which Has Become ...
Steam Guns
Steam Guns. While Mr. Perkins Was Making Experiments With The High Pressure Steam Of His Generator, He Observed That All Metallic Substances Were Projected From The Tube Of The Stop Cock With Very Great Velocity. The Idea Then Occurred To Him, That With A Gun Barrel Properly Constructed, Bullets Might ...
Steatite
Steatite Is A Kind Of Saponaceous Stone, Which Is Sometimes Found Of A White Colour, At Others Grey Or Green, And But Rarely Red Or Yellow. Its Specific Gravity Varies From 2.60 To 2.66. This Substance Is Composed Of A Mixture Of Silex, Alumine, Magnesia, Oxide Of Iron, And Water ...
Steel
Steel Is The Name Of A Well Known Metal, Consist Ing Of Iron Combined With Carbon, Or A Carburet Of Iron. When Small Pieces Of Fine Malleable Iron, Surrounded With Powdered Charcoal, Are Exposed For Eight Or Ten Hours To A Strong Red Heat, The Iron Is Converted Into Steel, ...
Stenographic Pen
Stenographic) Pen, This Instrument Being Chiefly Employed In Stenographic Writing, And Invented By The Author Of The Preceding System Of Short-hand, May Be Very Properly Appended To This Article. The Following Is A Full And Exact Description Of The Parts, Construc Tion And Use, Of The Perennial Or Self-supplying Fountain ...
Stephen Bezout
Bezout, Stephen, A Celebrated French Ma Thematician, Was Born At Nemours, In The Department Of The Seine And Marne, On The 19th Of March 1730. His Attention Was Accidentally Directed To The Study Of Mathematics, By Some Elementary Works On Geo Metry Which Fell Into His Hands, And By The ...
Stereography
Stereography Is That Branch Of Knowledge Which Demonstrates The Properties. And Teaches The Whole Doc Trine Of Regularly Defined Solids. It Explains The Rules Fur Constructing The Superficies In Piano, So As To Form The Entire Solid, Or To Cover Its Surface. It Also Slims How To Form Any Section ...
Sterna
Sterna, Lin. &c. Tern. Bill As Long As, Or Longer Than, The Head, Almost Straight, Compressed, Slender, Sharp-edged, And Pointed; Mandibles Of Equal Length, And The Upper Slightly Sloping Towards The Tip ; Nostrils In The Middle Of The Bill, Longitudinally Cleft, And Pervious; Legs Small, Naked Above The Knee, ...
Stettin
Stettin, A Town Of Russia, And The Capital Of Pomerania, Is Situated On An Eminence Upon The Left Bank Of The Oder, About Sixty Miles From The Baltic. It Is Connected By A Long Bridge Over The Largest Of The Four Streams Into Which The Oder Is Here Divided, With ...
Steuben
Steuben, County Of New York, Bounded W. By Alleghany County In The Same State; Nw. By Living Stop County; N. By Ontario; Ne. By Yates County And Seneca Lake; E. By Tioga County Of New York, And S. By Potter And Tioga Counties, Pennsylvania. ' His County Is Very Nearly ...
Stirling
Stirling, An Ancient Town Of Scotland, And Capital Of The County Of Stirling, Is Situated In A Plain Watered By The Forth, And On The Sloping Ridge Of A Rock, On The Western And Precipitous Extremity Of Which Stands Stirling Castle. The Town Is Irregular, The Street On The Crest ...
Stirlingshire
Stirlingshire, A Central County Of Scotland, Bounded On The North By Perthshire And Clackmannan Shire; On The Cast By The Firth Of Forth And Linlith Gowshirc; On The South By Lanarkshire; And On The South-west And West By Dumbartonshire; Is About 36 Miles In Length, And From 12 To 17 ...
Stockholm
Stockholm, The Metropolis Of Sweden, Is Situated On The Northern And Southern Shore Of The Lake Maclar, And Embraces Likewise. A Number Of Islands Lying Between Them. The Greatest Part Of The Town Stands On The Continent, The Part Which Occupies The Southern Shore Being Called Sodermalm, And That On ...
Stockton Upon Tees
Stockton Upon Tees, A Market And Borougli Town Of England In The County Of Durham, Is Situated On The North Bank Of The Tees, Which Is Crossed By A Handsome Bridge Of Five Elliptical Arches, That Cost 8000i., And Was Built Between 1764 And 1771. The Centre Arch Is 72 ...
Stomach
Stomach Staggers.—gorged Stomach. Such Is The Phraseology We Are Compelled To Adopt (for The Want Of A Veterinary Nomenclature) To Express The Disorder Occasioned By Preternatural Distension Of The Stomach With Food Or Air, Or Both Combined. Neat Cattle, It Is Known, Arc Very Liable, At Certain Seasons Of The ...