Abraham 1810 74 Geiger
Geiger, Abraham ( 1810-74). A Dis Tinguished Rabbi And Jewish Scholar. He Was Born At Frankfort-on-the-main, And Was Educat Ed At Heidelberg And Bonn. At Bonn He Gained A Prize For An Essay On The Jewish Sources Of The Koran, Published (1833) Under The Title Lvas Hat Mohammed Aus Dem ...
Adolphus Greely
Gree'ly, Adolphus (1844— ). An American Arctic Explorer And Meteorologist. He Was Born In Newburyport, Mass., Where He Received A High-school Education. In July, 1861, He Enlisted As A Private In The Nineteenth Massa Chusetts Volunteer Infantry, In Which He Served Throughout The War, Being Thrice Wounded And Receiving The ...
Age Of The Earth
Age Of The Earth. The Evidence From Geology All Points Toward An Age For The Earth To Be Reckoned In Millions Of Years. One Line Of Evi Dence Upon Which This Conclusion Is Based May Be Illustrated As Follows: There Are, In Some Places, Great Accumulations Of Rock Layers Which ...
Agricultural Gangs
Gangs, Agricultural. A Name Applied To Groups Of Women, Girls, And Boys Brought To Gether For Labor In The Fen Districts Of England, Or The Low Tracts South Of The Wash In The Coun Ties Of Lincoln, Cambridge, Norfolk. Suffolk. And Rutland. Not Long Ago This Part Of The Country ...
Agriculture
Agriculture. Agriculture Is The Leading In Dustry Of The State. Of The Total Land Area 69.9 Per Cent. (1900) Is Included, In Farms, And Of This 40.2 Per Cent. Is Improved. The Largest Farm Acreage Recorded Was In 1860, But The Largest Improved Acreage Was Reached In 1900, A Large ...
Agriculture
Agriculture. Germany Is No Longer The Essen Tially Agricultural Country That It Was In The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century. At That Time Fully 65 Per Cent. Of The People Were Engaged In Agriculture. In 1882 That Industry Supported 42 Per Cent. Of The Total Population Of The Em Pire, ...
Agriculture And Minerals
Agriculture And Minerals. The Principal Industry Is Agriculture, For Which The Country Is Well Adapted On Account Of Its Fertile And Well Watered Soil, As Well As Its Favorable Climate. Government Lands Are Sold At From $250 To $500 A Caballeria (113.62 Acres), Or Leased On Favor Able Terms. The ...
Agriculture And Stock Raising
Agriculture And Stock-raising. Estimated Upon The Basis Of The Number Of People Employed, Agriculture Is, Relative To Other Industries In England, Less Than Half As Important As In Any Of The Other Great Nations. The Country Now Is Far From Producing The Amount Of Food It Requires. This Fact Is ...
Agriculture_2
Agriculture. Agriculture And Cattle-raising Are The Chief Occupations Of The Settled Natives. Millet Is Grown In Most Parts Of The Colony, While Wheat, Sesame. Tobacco, And Rice Are Con Fined To Certain Localities. Bananas Are Cultivat Ed Chiefly On The Coast. The German Government Is Furthering Agricultural Development By Estab ...
Agriculture_3
Agriculture. These Elevated Valleys Are The Only Parts Of Its Colonial Possessions To Which Germany Is Inviting Its Peasantry To Emigrate. Many European Field Crops And Vegetables May Be Grown Along The Streams And Near The Wells Where The Farmers Procure Water For Their Tilled Lands. While The White Population ...
Agriculture_4
Agriculture. As Cultivation Depends Largely Upon Irrigation, Which Is Very Unequally Dis Tributed, The Tilled Lands In Most Parts Of The Country Resemble Oases. Cereals Occupy About Half Of The Tilled Lands, But Wheat Is Among The Imports, The Home Supply Being Inadequate. Rice Is Grown In The Lowlands Of ...
Albert 1761 1849 Gallatin
Gallatin, Albert (1761-1849). One Of The Most Distinguished Of American Public Finan Ciers. He Was Born In Geneva, Switzerland, Jan Uary 29, 1761, And Graduated At The Academy Of Geneva In 1779. In 1780 He And A Friend, Henri Serre, Came To The United States, And Spent A Year At ...
Alexander 1737 1802 Geddes
Geddes, Alexander (1737-1802). A Biblical Critic, Translator, And Miscellaneous Writer. He Was Born In Scotland In 1737, Of Roman Catholic Parents, And Educated For A Priest In Htis Native Country And In Paris, Where He Acquired An Excellent Knowledge Of Languages. In 1764 He Returned To Scotland, And For Fifteen ...
Alphabet And Pronunciation
Alphabet And Pronunciation. The Age Of Writing In Greece Is Unknown, Although Recent Dis Coveries Have Made It Appear Probable That Some System Of Writing Existed Long Before B.c. 1000. The Earliest Greek Inscriptions Cannot Be Dated Earlier Than The Seventh Century B.c. The Alpha Bet In Which These Inscriptions ...
Ancient Exploration
Exploration, Ancient. The Legend Of The Argo Nauts Undoubtedly Grew Up Around The Story Of Actual Voyages Made By The Early Greeks To The Far East. The Phoenicians Were The First Nation Of Discoverers, And, Like Most Of Their Successors, They Were Animated By The Desire Of Gain. Tyre And ...
Ancient History
Ancient History. (see Paragraph In This Ar Ticle Under Ethnology.) The Hellenes, Or Later Inhabitants Of Greece, Were A Branch Of The Indo European, Also Called Indo-germanic, Or Aryan, Speech-family. They Are Supposed To Have Entered The Country At A Remote Period From The North And Northeast In Successive Waves ...
Animals
Animals. The Group Of Animals Whose Pelts Are Utilized As Fur Garments Or Ornaments, Forming The Carnivorous Family Mustelidw. This Family, Which Includes, Besides Its Typical Weasels (3iustelinse), The Skunks (mephitint), The Badgers (3felinm), The Otters (lutrinm), And The Sea-otters (enhydrinte), The Honey-badgers, Ratels, Etc., Is World-wide In Its Spread ...
Annealing
Annealing Has Been Referred To Already, But It Is Such An Essential Part Of The Art Of Glass Making That It Requires More Detailed Explana Tion. In Order That Glass Shall Have Strength And Durability, It Must, After It Has Been Fashioned Into Shape By Some Process, Be Cooled More ...
Antonio De Guevara
Guevara, Antonio De (c.1490 1545). A Spanish Writer. He Was Attached To The Court Of Isabella I. For A Part Of His Early Life, Entered The•franciscan Order In 1528, And Became Court Preacher And Historiographer Of Charles V. He Enjoyed Great Favor In His Own Time, Both At Home And ...
Apparatus
Apparatus. The Distillation Of The Coal Is Carried On In Closed Retorts, Heated By Suitable Furnaces. Originally Made Of East-iron And Cir Cular In Cross-section, These Retorts Are Now Made Of Fire-clay And Are Oval Or Fl-shaped. They Furnaces By Which These Groups Are Heated Are Of Two Kinds—direct Fire ...
Apparatus And Process Of
Apparatus And Process Of Manufacture. In The Generator-retort Type Of Apparatus The Water-gas Is Made In A Generator, A Steel Shell Lined With Fire-brick, Which After A Fire Has Been Kindled In It Is Filled With Coal That Is Brought To Incandescence By Means Of A Forced Blast Of Air. ...
Araroba Goa Powder
Goa Powder, Araroba, Or Crysaroba. A Drug Imported In The Form Of A Yellowish Or Choco Late-colored Powder. The Name Goa Powder Is Derived From The Portuguese Colony Of Goa, Where The Drug Appears To Have Been Introduced About The Year 1852. It Was Exported From Bahia To Portugal, Whence ...
Archaic Period
Archaic Period ( Till B.c. 480). This Period May Be Conveniently Divided Into Two Parts: (a) The Era Of The Formation Of Types And Schools, And (b) The Period Of Developed Archaism, From About B.c. 550 To B.c. 480. Formative Period.—the Earliest Doric Temples And Other Monuments Of Greek Art ...
Architecture The Temple
Architecture: The Temple. In View Of The Evidence Afforded By The Herfeum And The Later But Very Similar Temple At Thermon, In Atolia, It Seems Necessary To Abandon Theories That Con Sider The Doric Style A Transformation Into Stone Of An Original Wooden Architecture, The Develop Ment Of A Purely ...
Area Of Tiie German
Area Of Tiie German Language. The Area Of The German Language Is Not Identical Either With That Of The German Stock Or That Of The German Empire. Thus, In The Larger Part Of Eastern Germany (the Country East Of The Rivers Elbe And Saale), The German-speaking Population Is, As Far ...
Artificial Gems
Artificial Gems. In Recent Years The Produc Tion Of Gems By Artificial Means Has Been At Tempted By Chemists, And The Literature Of The Manufacture Of Diamonds By Heat Is Extensive; But As Yet No Large Stones Have Been Obtained. In 1880 Hanney, In Some Experiments Made To Produce Diamonds ...
Ascomycetes
Ascomycetes. The Ascomycetes (sac-fungi) Present Structures And Life Histories That Are Very Difficult To Correlate With Those Of The Phycomy Cetes. Some Of The Lower Forms Are Undoubted Ly Sexual. There Is Present A Female Cell (ascogo Nium Or Archicarp) Fertilized By A Discharge From A Neighboring Male Cell (antheridium), ...
B The Problem Of
B. The Problem Of The Chronology. This Concerns Itself Chiefly With The Question As To The Length Of Jesus' Ministry; And This Question Turns Largely Upon The Character Of The Feast Mentioned In John V. 1. If This Is Held To Be A Passover, The Duration Of His Active Work ...
Banking
Banking. At The Head Of The German Bank Ing System Is The Imperial Bank (the Reichs Bank). Founded In 1875 By An Act Of The Ger Man Reichstag, It Has Been Ever Since The Lead Ing Bank Of Issue, And, In Addition To Other Banking Operations, Has Served As The ...
Banking_2
Banking. Banking Was Introduced Into Great Britain By The Goldsmiths Of London In The Sev Enteenth Century. The Banking Systems Of Eng Land And Scotland Have Developed Independently And Naturally Along Somewhat Divergent Lines. In England The First Connection Of The Govern Ment With Banking Occurred In 1694, When The ...
Barmi Giraildiis De
Giraildiis De, Barmi An English Ecclesiastic And Chronicler, Best Known As Giraldus Cambrensis. He Was Born In Pembrokeshire Of A Noble Norman Family, And Was Educated By His Uncle, Who Was Bishop Of Saint David's. During His Youth He Thrice Vis Ited Paris, Studying And Lecturing At The Uni Versity ...
Basidiomycetes
Basidiomycetes. The Basidiomycetes (mush Rooms, Toadstools, Etc.) Are A Remarkable Class. There Is No Trace Of Sexuality In The Group, Not Even The Vestiges Of Sexual Organs Which Generally Remain Even When Plants Reproduce Without Them. Apart From Certain Peculiar Phenomena Of Fusing Nuclei, There Are No Dews To The ...
Battle Of Gainessmill
Gaines's Mill, Battle Of. A Battle Fought On June 27, 1862, During The Civil War, Between A Federal Force Of About 30,000 Under General Fitz John Porter And A Confederate Force Of About 65,000 Under General Lee, On The Left Or North Bank Of The Chickahominy River, Eight Miles Northeast ...
Battle Of Gettysburg
Gettysburg, Battle Of. The Most Im Portant And Most Hotly Contested Battle Of The Civil War In America, Fought July 1-3, 1863. At Gettysburg, Pa., Between The Federal Army Of The Potomac, Numbering About 82,000 Men, Under General Meade, And The Confederate Army Of Northern Virginia, Numbering About 73,000 Men, ...
Bay Of Fundy
Fundy, Bay Of (from Fr. Fond De La Baie, Head Of The Bay). An Arm Of The Atlantic, Sepa Rating Nova Scotia From New Brunswick And The State Of Maine (map: Nova Scotia, D 4). With An Average Breadth Of 35 Miles, It Extends 180 Miles In Length From Northeast ...
Bibliography General Works
Bibliography. General Works: Playfair, Illustrations Of The Huttonian Theory Of The Earth (edinburgh, 1802) ; Lyell, Principles Of Geology (2d Ed., London, 1875) ; A. Geikie, Text Book Of Geology(london, 1893) ; Dana, Manual Of Geology (4th Ed., New York. 1895) ; Le Conte, En-melds Of Geology (new York, 1891) ...
Bibliography And Sources
Bibliography And Sources. The Sources Of Our Knowledge Of Greek Art Are Twofold—the Extant Remains And The Literary Tradition. The Monuments Are, Of Course, The Basis Of All Dis Cussion Of Questions Of Style And Technique; But Their Value Is Limited In The Field Of Architecture By The Ruined Condition ...
Biologic Principles Illustrated By
Biologic Principles Illustrated By Fungi. Some General Biological Principles Are Admirably Illustrated • By The Fungi. Probably No Other Of The Lower Plants Are So Varied In Their Adapta Tion To Special Life Conditions As Are The Fungi. The Fact Is Shown By The Immense Number Of Species, For The ...
Boyles Law
Boyle's Law. If The Temperature Of A Gas Is Kept Constant, And Its Volume Changes, The Re Sulting Pressure And Density Are Such That One Is Proportional To The Other. In Symbols, P = Hp; Or Writing 71 For Pv = Km, Where At Is The Mass And V Is ...
British Guiana
British Guiana. This Colony, A Possession Of Great Britain, Forms The Western Part Of Guia Na, And Lies Between Venezuela And The Corentyn River. Its Area Is About 95,100 Square Miles, Being More Than Half That Of All Guiana. Of British Guiana (quite The Most Important Of The Three Colonies), ...
Byzantium
Byzantium. Constantine, On Transplanting His Capital To Byzantium (a.d. 330), Selected The Best Artisans In Glass, And Not Only Gave Them Studios In A Quarter Of The City Called 'glass-making,' But Caused Them To Be Exempt From The Tax Levied By Previous Emperors. Accordingly Glass-makers Flocked From Fallen Rome, Carrying ...
Cause Of Glacial Motion
Cause Of Glacial Motion. Many Theories Have Been Advanced To Explain Why The Ice Of Glaciers, Which Is Apparently So Very Brittle, Should Flow Like A Plastic Substance. There Are Two Questions To Be Answered—namely, What Is The Force Causing The Ice To Move, And What Property Of Ice Enables ...
Causes Of Glacial Climate
Causes Of Glacial Climate. Various Theories Have Been Proposed To Account For The Cold Climate Of The Glacial Period. A Sufficient Cause May Be Found In Terrestrial Changes, Such, For Instance, As Would Lead To A Variation In The Distribution Of Land And Water. The Formation Of Glaciers Is Influenced ...
Changes In The Level
Changes In The Level Of The Land. Among The Most Far-reaching Results Of Geological Study Is The Proof That The Earth's Surface Is Not Stable At The Present Time, And That A Similar Condition Has Existed In All Periods Of The Past. Again And Again Stratigraphic Geology Tells Of Changes ...
Charities
Charities. The Different German States, Ex Cept Bavaria And Alsace-lorraine, Have Adopted Uniform Systems Of Poor Laws, But There Is No Centralized System Of Administration. Each Poor Law District Provides For Its Own Poor, A Resi Dence Of Two Years Being The Requisite Time To De Termine The Place Of ...
Charities
Charities. The History Of Charitable Effort In England Is More Comprehensive And Offers More Of Interest And Value Than That Of Any Other Country. Like Other Phases Of English History, It Treats Of A Continuous Growth; It Is In A Measure A Running Commentary Upon The Changing Social Life. During ...
Charles Cavendish Fulke 1794 1865
Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke (1794-1865). An English Diarist. He Prepared For College At Eton, Entered Christ Church Col Lege, Oxford. But Left Without A Degree To Become The Private Secretary Of Lord Bathurst. Later He Was Appointed To The Secretaryship Of Jamaica— A Sinecure Position, As He Never Visited The ...
Charles De Lorraine 1571 1640
Charles De Lorraine (1571-1640), Son Of Henry I. And Fourth Duke Of Guise, Was Succeeded By His Second Son, Henri Ii. De Lorraine, Fifth Duke Of Guise, Who Was Born April 4, 1614. Henri Had Been Trained For The Church, And Was Archbishop Of Rheims When The Death Of His ...
Charles Edouard 1765 1834
Charles Edouard (1765-1834). A French Diplo Mat, Born At Versailles. His Father Was The Chief Of The Bureau Of Correspondence Of The Ment Of Foreign Affairs, And The Youth, With The Rank Of Captain Of Dragoons, Was Attached To The Bureau As Interpreter In 1775. He Early Veloped Remarkable Powers ...
Charles George 1833 85 Gordon
Gordon, Charles George (1833-85). An English Soldier, Familiarly Known As 'chinese Gordon' And 'gordon Pasha.' The Son Of Henry William Gordon, Lieutenant-general Of Artillery, He Was Born At Woolwich, January 28, 1833. He Was Educated At Taunton, And Entered The Royal Military Academy At Woolwich In 1848. Obtain Ing A ...
Charles Grey
Grey, Charles, Second Earl Grey (1764 1845). An English Statesman, Born At Falladon, Northumberland, Of An Ancient Family, And Edu Cated At Eton And King's College, Cambridge. After Traveling On The Continent, He Became, In His Twenty-second Year, A Member Of Parliament For His Native County. Abandoning The Politics Of ...
Charles Montagu Halifax
Halifax, Charles Montagu, • Earl Of (1661-1715). An English Poet, Statesman, And Financier. _ He Was A Grandson Of Henry, First Earl Of Manchester, And Nephew Of The Famous Parliamentary General, And Was Probably Born At Horton, In Northamptonshire, April 16, 1661. He Was Educated At Westminster School And Trinity ...
Chemical And Physical Properties
Chemical And Physical Properties. Chemi Cally, Any Vitreous Compound Is Called Glass, But Commercially Glass Is A Fused Mixture Of Two Or More Metallic Silicates, And Is Often Named From The Predominant Base. As 'soda Glass.' Pot Ash Glass,' Lime Glass,' And 'lead Glass.' The Es Sential Ingredients Are Silica ...
Christoph Willibald 1714 87
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714 87 ). A Famous German Composer And Operatic Reformer. He Was Born July 2, 1714, At Weiden Wang, In The Upper Palatinate, Where His Father Was Forester To Prince Eugene Of Savoy, And Later To Prince Lobkowitz' At Eisenberg. From 1726 To 1732 The Boy Attended ...
Ciiristian 1742 98 Garve
Garve, Ciiristian (1742-98). A German Philosopher. He Was Born At Breslau, Studied At The Universities Of Frankfort-on-the Oder And Halle, In 1769 Succeeded Gellert As Professor Of Philosophy At Leipzig, But In 1772 Was Obliged By Ill Health To Retire. His Writings Did Much Toward The Popularization Of Philos Ophy ...
Classification
Classification. Gastropods Are Divided Into Two Subclasses: (1) Streptoneura, "in Which The Visceral Commissures Are Twisted Into A Figure Of 8, And In Which The Sexes Are Distinct;" And (2) Euthyneura, In Which The Visceral Com Missures Are Not So Twisted, And In Which The Sexes Are United. The Former ...
Climate
Climate. Warm Winters, Cool Summers, And Large Rainfall Are The Characteristics Of The Brit Ish Climate. The Island Owes These Advantages To The Surrounding Seas, Which Are Unusually Warm Considering Their Latitude. The Westerly Winds (the Southwest Anti-trades) Blowing Most Of The Time From Off The Broad Expanse Of The ...
Climatology
Climatology. This Branch Of Physical Geog Raphy Is Concerned With The General Distribution Of The Phenomena Of The Atmosphere. The Height Of The Atmosphere Is Unknown, But From The Rate At Which Its Density Diminishes With Alti Tude Above The Earth's Surface, It Is Clear That In A Few Miles ...
Colonies
Colonies. The Colonies And Dependencies Of The German Empire Comprise German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Kamerun, Togo, Part Of Guinea (kaiser Wilhelm's Land), The Bismarck Archipelago, Part Of The Solomon Islands, The Caroline Islands, The La Drones (marianne Islands), The Marshall Islands, Part Of The Samoan Islands, And Kiao-chau ...
Colored Glass
Colored Glass Is Made Ordinarily Like Any Others, By The Addition Of Dyes (generally Metal Oxides) To The Molten Charge. The Same Metal Produces Several Colors At Different Temperatures. Iron Gives All The Rainbow Hues In The Order Of Their Position In The Spectrum, But Its Common Est Effects Are ...
Commerce
Commerce. The Foreign Commerce Of The Ger Man Empire Is Subject To The Regulations Of The Federal Authorities, All Of The States Of The Em Pire Together With Luxemburg In The So-called Zollverein Or Customs Union. Absolute Free Trade Exists Between The Members Of The Union And A Uniform Tariff ...
Commerce
Commerce. The Industrial Supremacy Which Great Britain Has So Long Enjoyed Has Probably Been More Manifest In Its Commercial Aspect Than In Any Other. No Interests Excite Greater Solici Tude On The Part Of British Statesmen, Or Exercise A Greater Influence On The Policy Of The Country, Than The Commercial. ...
Commercial Geography
Geography, Commercial. This Subject Is A Branch Of Economic Geography From Which, As Indicated Above, It Cannot Be Completely Differ Entiated. The Phases Of Economic Geography That As Yet Are Most Commonly Taught In The Schools Of The Old World And The New Are Usually Pre Sented Under The Name ...
Commercial Glucose
Commercial Glucose. The Term Glucose Is Also Applied To Mixtures Of The Substance De Scribed Above With Other Carbohydrates, The Various Mixed Products Being Otherwise Called `starch-syrup,' Corn-syrup,"starch-sugar,"corn Sugar,' Etc. Starch Is The Favorite Material For The Manufacture Of Commercial Glucoses. Potato Starch Is Largely Used For This Purpose In ...
Comparative Anatomy Of Gland
Gland, Comparative Anatomy Of. Neither A Definition Nor A Classification Of Glands Has Yet Been Agreed On By Comparative Anatomists. Since The Word Itself Offers No Clew To Its Real Mean Ing, We Must Attempt To Define It From Universally Accepted Examples. Among These May Be Men Tioned Salivary Glands, ...
Complex Varieties Of Government
Complex Varieties Of Government. Thus Far The Government Of States Has Been Dealt With As Though Each Were A Unit, Animated By A Single Po Litical Principle. But The Matter Of Civil Gov Ernment Is Far Too Complex To Be Covered By A Single Formula. Each State Is The Theatre ...
Compounds
Compounds. With Oxygen Gold Forms A Mon Oxide, Or Aurous Oxide, And A Trioxide, Or Auric Oxide. The Former Is Obtained By Decomposing Aurous Chloride With Cold Dilute Potassium Hy Droxide; The Latter By Heating A Solution Of Gold Trichloride With An Excess Of Magnesia And Well Washing The Precipitate ...
Constantinople 1453
Constantinople (1453). The Latest Of The Writers Mentioned In The Preceding Section Might Be Counted In This Period. For More Than A Thousand Years After The Removal Of The Capital From Rome, Constantinople Was The Metropolis Of An Empire Whose Language Was Greek, And From Which A Vast Literature Has ...
Correlation Of The Volumes
Correlation Of The Volumes And Surfaces Of Organisms. It Has Been Pointed Out By Leuck Art And By Herbert Spencer That As Organized Unicellular Bodies Increase In Bulk, Their Sur Faces Become Proportionately Less, And That This Elementary Rule Of Growth Very Probably Leads To The Necessity For Segmentation Or ...
Cosmical Geology
Cosmical Geology. A Full Treatment Of This Phase Of Geology Is Out Of Place In A Brief General Article. Moreover, Much Of It Belongs To Astronomy. Studies Of The Shape Of The Earth, And The Resemblances Between The Earth And Other Bodies In Space, Both In Form And Composition, Are ...
Creed
Creed.) But His Influence Upon The Final Formu Lation Of The Doctrine Of The Trinity Was Con Siderable, Especially In Drawing A Distinction Be Tween The One Divine Essence, Or Substance, And The Three Hypostases, Or Persons. (see Arians ; Hypostasis; Homoousion. ) He Also Emphasized The Attributes Of The ...
Creek Music
Creek Music. The Development Of Music Among The Greeks Was Never Carried To That De Gree Of Perfection Which Characterized The Other Arts. Polyphony Was Unknown To Them, And Consequently Their Elaborate Theoretical System Had Reference Only To Melody. How Extensively Their Theories Were Carried Out In Practice We Have ...
Crevasses
Crevasses. Although The Ice Of Glaciers Can Suffer Some Distortion Without Breaking, If The Rate Of Distortion Is Too Great The Ice Will Crack And Great Crevasses Form. Crevasses Can Be Di Vided Into Distinct Classes: Marginal Crevasses, Which Occur On The Sides Of Glaciers And Point Up Stream At ...
Crushing Machinery
Crushing Machinery. Perhaps This Earliest Form Of Crushing Machine Is The Stamp Or Stamp Mill, Which Is Now So Extensively Employed In Reducing Gold, Copper, And Other Ores. Briefly Described, A Stamp Mill Consists Of One Or More Stamps Beneath Which The Ore Is Fed In A Thin Stream. Each ...
Daniel Gilman
Gilman, Daniel Corr (1831— ). An Ameri Can Educator, Born In Norwich, Conn. He Came From A New Hampshire Family Which Migrated From Norfolk, England, In 1638. After Gradua Tion At Yale In 1852, He Studied And Traveled In Europe. In 1855 He Entered The Service Of His Alma Maker ...
Days Of Grace
Grace, Days Of. A Period Allowed For The Payment Of A Negotiable Instrument, As A Bill Of Exchange Or Promissory Note, In Addition To The Time Named In The Paper Itself. As The Title Indicates, This Additional Period Was Formerly A Matter Of Indulgence Or Favor On The Part Of ...
Decline Of The Guilds
Decline Of The Guilds. The Guilds Were Strictly Local Institutions, Working (or A Local Market, And Their Monopoly Was A Local Monop Oly. The Commercial Progress Which Followed The Era Of Discovery Reacted Upon The Industrial Or Ganization. It Offered A Wider Market Than Had Heretofore Been Known, And Encouraged ...
Defense
Defense. The System Of Defense And The Mili Tary And Naval Arrangements Of Great Britain Are Peculiarly Distinctive Of That Country. The Predominating Factors In The Situation Are The Insular Position Of The Country And The Vast Extent Of Foreign Domains That Need Protec Tion. Both Of These Conditions Unite ...
Dextrose Dextro Glucose
Dextro-glucose, Dextrose, Grape-sugar, Or Diabetic Sugar. One Of The Carbohydrates That Are Represented By The Formula As Ordi Narily Obtained, The Crystals Of Dextro-glucose In Clude One Molecule Of Water For Every Molecule Of The Carbohydrate, And Are Therefore Represented By The Formula + Hd. It Occurs Natural Ly In ...
Dialects
Dialects. Long Before The Dawn Of History Greek Comprised A Number Of Dialects, Which Maintained Their Individual Peculiarities Until Comparatively Late Times, Although These Differ Ences Were Never So Great As To Prevent Easy Com Munication Between The Inhabitants Of Different Districts. The Study Of The Greek Dialects Has Been ...
Distribution
Distribution. The Productive Horizons Of Nat Ural Gas Cover The Entire Series Of Paleozoic Rocks, And Reservoirs Are Found Even In Tertiary Strata. The Main Supply For The United States Comes From The Appalachian Field, And The Ohio Indiana Field. The Former Extends From New York Into Tennessee, And Contains ...
Distribution Of Gas
Distribution Of Gas. From The Gas-holder The Gas Is Conveyed To The Consumers By Means Of Main Pipes, Laid Under The Surface Of The Streets, From Which Branch Or Service Pipes Are Led To The Houses. The Pressure On The Mains, Which Varies In Ordinary Practice From To 4 Inches ...
A Groats Worth Of Wit
Groat's-worth Of Wit, A, Bought With A Million Of Repentance. A Tract By Robert Greene (q.v.) Discovered After His Death, Together With A Pathetic Letter To His Wife. It Was Licensed In 1592, But Apparently Not Published Until 1596. The Story Is In Part Autobiographical, And Con Tains An Allusion ...