Lever
Lever names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Lever CHARLES JAMES, an Irish AMES
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES JAMES, an Irish AMES, an Irish novelist; born in Dublin, Aug. 31, 1806. Aug. 31, 1806. He was graduated in arts at Trinity in arts at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1827, and in medicine and in medicine 1831 later, taking his doctor's degree a litat Göttingen. He then returned doctor's degree a lit agen. He then returned actice. Ireland to practice. In March, 1834, In March, 1884 contributed his first paper to the his first paper to the - started " Dublin University Maga - Dublin University Maga The zine, " first of which he became editor in 1842. xiii. 9), chapter of " Harry Lorrequer " ual, social, appeared in that magazine in 1837. Meanwhile he was attached as physician to the British legation at Brussels, where he practiced for three years. During his three years' editorship of the "Dublin University Magazine" he resided near Dublin, and afterwards lived on the Conmaritan (Luke x: 32). tinent devoting himself to fiction writing -"Charles O'Malley," "Tom Burke," "Jack Hinton" are representative novels, and in a class by themselves. He obtained a diplomatic post at Florence about 1845, was appointed vice-consul at Spezzia in 1857, and in 1867 at Trieste, where he died, June 1, 1872.
Lever The lever is the simplest of all machines
The Encyclopedia of Founding (1892)
The lever is the simplest of all machines, and is only a straight bar of iron, wood, or other material, supported on and movable round a prop called the fulcrum, and having the weight to be moved and the power to move it applied at two other points. The law is that the power and weight are in the inverse ratio of their distances from the fulcrum. This is equally true for straight or bent levers, and holds good whatever be the relative positions of the power, weight, and fulcrum; and as there can be three different arrangements of these, we thus obtain what are called the three kinds of levers. The first kind is where the fulcrum is placed between the power and the weight; levers of the second kind are those in which the weight is betwixt the power and the fulcrum; in levers of the third kind the power is betwixt the weight and the fulcrum. To produce equilibrium in levers of the first kind, the power may, according to the ratio of the lengths of the arm, be either greater or less than the weight: in the second kind it must always be less, and in the third kind always greater.
Lever O "white"). Wine
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
O "white"). Wine, olive oil, and currants velist; born are the principal products. The island was gre is much subject to earthquakes. Pop. llege, Dahl between Greeks. The 25,000 W. coast and is 27,000 bold, and chiefly pre- tle in cipitous, and terminates S. in the ab- 1831, rupt headland ( 200 feet) known to the he to ancients as the Leucadian rock, on which newly wly-star stood a temple to Apollo, and from and from which once a year a criminal was hurled was hurled into the sea by way of sacrifice. It was from f sacrifice) It the same point that Sappho, the hat Sappho, poetess, and Artemisia of Halicarnassus of Halicarthrew themselves into the waves. the waves. The capital, Amaxichi or Leukas, on the E. coast, is or Leukas, on the the seat of an archbishop, and of an archbishop, has a population of 3,800. It was nearly of 3,800. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1825. an earthquake in Collen), a village of Prussia, in Lower Silesia, 10 miles W.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The physics in the 1892 Encyclopedia of Founding has not moved at all: power and weight still stand in inverse ratio to their distances from the fulcrum, and schoolchildren are still taught the same three classes of lever, defined by whether the fulcrum, the weight or the power sits in the middle. What has changed is reputation rather than fact. Charles James Lever, whose rollicking military novels "Charles O'Malley" and "Harry Lorrequer" Collier's called in 1921 "in a class by themselves," is now read almost only by specialists in nineteenth-century Irish fiction, where he is valued less as a humorist than as a witness to Anglo-Irish society. The garbled third fragment belongs to Leucas, the Ionian island now usually called Lefkada, which is joined to the Greek mainland by a bridge across its narrow channel and remains earthquake country.
Written for this edition, 2026.