These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Biloxi Indians, Binah, Binary Arithmetic.
the name given to one of the 10 groups of tribes into which the Siouan stock of North American Indians is divided. In 1669 they had one village on Biloxi Bay near the Gulf of Mexico. Thirty years later there were three villages, Biloxi, Paskagula and Moctobi. A few survivors of the tribe are still to be found near Lecompte, Rapides parish, La.
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A wood or iron box for storing charcoal, sea-coal, lead, flour, or any other commodity used in the foundry. The providing of such repositories effects a considerable saving over the too common practice of having such things loose around the foundry in barrels.
Only in The Encyclopedia of Founding
In the supreme triangle of the Kabala the three sides are reason, which they name Kether ; necessity, Chochmah; and liberty, Binah.
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a method of notation invented by Leibnitz, but which appears to have been in use in China about 4,000 years ago. As the term binary implies, there are only two characters in this notation; these are 1 and 0. By it, our 1 is noted by 1, our 2 by 10, 3 by 11, 4 by 100; 5 by 101, 6 by 110, 7 by 111, 8 by 1,000, 9 by 1,001, 10 by 1,010, etc. The principle is that 0 multiplies by 2 in place of by 10, as on the common system.
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usually an engine having one cylinder, the piston being impelled by steam, which, having done its work there, is exhausted into another part of the apparatus, where it is allowed to communicate its unutilized heat to some liquid volatile at a lower temperature; the vapor of this second liquid, by its expansion in a second cylinder, yields additional useful force. Ether, chloroform, and bisulphide of carbon have all been tried.
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a system of logarithms devised by Euler for facilitating musical calculations. Instead of having ing, like the common system of logarithms, 1 as the logarithm of 10, and 0.43429448 as the modulus, it had 1 as the logarithm of 2, and the modulus 1.442695.
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a star which, closely examined by the telescope, is found to consist of two stars revolving around their common center of gravity. In some cases they are colored differently from each other. In 1803 Sir William Herschel discovered that Gamma Leonis, Epsilon Bootis, Zeta Herculis, Delta Serpentis, and Gamma Virginis are revolving double stars, and others, including Castor, have since been added to the list, a large proportion of the later discoveries having been made by Sherburne W. Burnham, Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Chicago (1900). The period of revolution in various cases has been determined. It is found to vary from 26 to more than 1,200 years.
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in zoölogy, a system of classification by which each sub-kingdom, class, order, etc., is perpetually divided into two, the one with a positive and the other with a negative character, till genera are reached. For instance, on this system, the animal subkingdom is divided into vertebrata and invertebrata, that is, animals which have, and animals which have not, vertebræ.
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in chemistry, a hypothesis proposed by Davy to reduce the haloid salts (as NaCl) and the oxygen salts (as NaNO3) to the same type, the monad Cl' being replaced by the monad radical containing oxygen (NO₂)'. Acids are hydrogen salts, as HCl, or H (NO₂)'. A radical is only part of a molecule which can unite with or replace an element or another radical, atomicity for atomicity. Thus the dyad radical (SO₂)" )" can replace two monad radicals, (NO₂)', as in the equation Pb" (NO3)2 + Mg" (SO4)" Pb" (SO₂)" + Mg" = (NO3)2. A radical cannot exist in a separate state.
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Fine malleable iron wire used for binding articles while soldering, etc.
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Thin plates cast by the loam-moulder to strengthen weak walls in copes and cores built with bricks. They are bedded, at intervals, on soft loam and the building continued over them. A slot or opening on one side allows of their being set without removing the spindle. If, when the slot is made, they should be considered too weak, extending lugs at that point will serve to clamp or bolt them fast, after they have passed the spindle and are bedded in place. For cores, the lugs are internal; for copes, external. They are often called building-rings. See COURSE; BRICKING-UP; LOAM-MOULDING; HOOP-BINDER.
Only in The Encyclopedia of Founding
city and county-seat of Broome co., N. Y., at the junction of the Chenango and Susquehanna rivers, and on several railroads; 50 miles E. of Elmira. It occupies a site more than 850 feet above tide water, and both rivers are here spanned by several bridges. The city has excellent street, sewer, and water systems. It has libraries, parks, hospitals and banks. The noteworthy buildings include the State Asylum for the Insane, United States Government Building, State Armory, court house, city hall, orphan asylums, the Commercial Travelers' Home, an opera house, and the Casino. The leading industries are the manufacture of boots and shoes, motors, cigars, cotton goods, and clothing. Other important manufactures are scales, chemicals, furniture, sheet metal work, glass, gloves, s, and refined oils. An interesting feature of the city is the large number of cottages owned by the working people. Binghamton received a city charter in 1867. Pop. (1910) 48,443; (1920) 66,800.
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corrupted from bittacle, a wooden case or box in which the compass on board a ship is kept to protect it from injury. A light is placed within it at night to insure that its indications are seen. It is placed immediately in front of the wheel or steering apparatus, and secured to the deck, usually by metal stays.
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literally, having two eyes or pertaining to both eyes; an instrument having two tubes, each furnished above with an eyeglass, so as to enable one to see with both eyes at once. Many opera glasses, telescopes, and microscopes are now binocular. Binocular Eye Piece. - An eye piece so constructed and applied to the object glass as to divide the optical pencil transmitted to the latter, and form, as to each part of the divided pencil, a real or virtual image of the object beyond the place of division. Binocular Microscope. - A microscope with two eyeglasses, so that both eyes may use it simultaneously. Binocular Telescope. - A pair of telescopes mounted in a stand, and having a parallel adjustment for the width between the eyes. The tubes have a coincident horizontal and vertical adjustment for altitude and azimuth. The inventor of this instrument is said to have been a Capuchin monk, Schyrleus de Rheita. Galileo also made a binocular telescope in 1617.
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