These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Gath, Gathmann Gun, Gatineau.
one of the five royal cities of the Philistines, which, from its situation on the borders of Judah , was of much importance in the wars of the Jews and Philistines. It was the native town of Goliath, and was successively captured by David , Hazael, and Uzziah, who dismantled it.
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a gun invented by Louis Gathmann, a Chicago mechanician and inventor, which is capable of throwing great masses of high explosives by means of gunpowder. It is a rifled cannon, unjacketed, and with no re-enforcements at the breech. Its bore is 13 inches, 1 inch larger than in any cannon heretofore made by the government. The shell is 7 feet long and contains 400 pounds of wet guncotton . There is a plunger at the end which , when it strikes an object, explodes the percussion cap which sets fire to some dry powder, that in turn sets off some dry guncotton , which on bursting lets loose the terrible force imprisoned in the 400 pounds of winter residence-practically, owing to wet guncotton. See ORDNANCE.
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a river of Canada, Quebec Province, the largest affluent of the Ottawa, rising in some lakes, and flowing almost due S. to enter the Ottawa nearly opposite Ottawa City. It is not navigable more than 5 miles above the Ottawa except by canoes, but its rapid waters are well stocked with fish and available as water powers.
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RICHARD JORDAN, an American inventor; born in Hertford co., N. C., Sept. 12, 1818. While a boy he assisted his father in perfecting a machine for sowing cotton seed, and another for thinning out cotton plants. Subsequently he invented a machine for sowing rice. Removing to St. Louis, in 1844, he adapted this invention to sowing wheat in drills. For several winters he attended medical lectures in Cincinnati, and in 1849 removed to Indianapolis, where he engaged in railroad enterprises and real estate speculations. In 1850 he invented a double-acting hemp brake, and in 1857 a steam plow, which, however, he did not bring to any practical result. In 1861 he conceived the idea of the revolving battery gun which bears his name. Of these ne constructed six at Cincinnati, which were destroyed by the burning of his factory. Afterward he had 12 manufactured elsewhere, which were used by General Butler on the James river. In 1865 he improved his invention, and in the year following, after satisfactory trial, it was adopted into the United States service. It has also been adopted by several European governments. Died Feb. 23, 1903.
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a machine gun, invented by Richard J. Gatling. The gun consists of a series of barrels in combination with a grooved carrier and lock cylinder. The main features of the gun are: (1) Each barrel in the gun is provided with its own independent lock or firing mechanism. (2) All the locks revolve simultaneously with the barrels, carrier and inner breech, when the gun is in operation. The locks also have a reciprocating motion when the A gun is rotated. The gun cannot be fired when either the barrels or locks are at rest.
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Richard J. (1818-1903), an American inventor. He was a native of North Carolina . He was possessed of unusual mechanical ability. Among his inventions are a machine for sowing rice, a wheat drill, a hemp brake, and a steam plow. He is known best, however, as the inventor of the Gatling gun. It was used for the first time during the peninsular campaign conducted by General Butler on the James River. It consists essentially of ten gun barrels fastened in a parallel position to a central shaft. They are turned by a crank. Cartridges are set into the breech through an electrical arrangement called a hopper. The Gatling gun is a terribly destructive piece of ordnance. As high as 1,200 shots can be fired per minute. By swinging the muzzle slowly to right and left the horizon may be swept by a veritable leaden hail. See Cannon
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a town of Russia, 30 miles S. S. W. of Petrograd. It has some manufactures of porcelain, and several barracks, but is especially worthy of mention for its royal palace, surrounded by one of the finest pleasure gardens in Europe, which were the favorite summer seat of the Emperor Paul I., and the
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GIULIO, an Italian operatic manager, born in Udine, Italy, in 1869. He graduated as a naval engineer at the Polytechnic College of Genoa. From 1892 to 1898 he was director of the Municipal Theater at Ferrara, and from 1898 to 1908 was director of the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan. In the same year he was appointed director of the Metropolitan Opera House. In 1910 he married Frances Alda, an operatic soprano.
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a native of the pampas of La Plata, and of Spanish descent. The Gauchos live by cattle-breeding, and are noted for their skill in horsemanship and the use of the lasso and the bolas.
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A French ecclesiastic, burned as a sorcerer at Aix, in 1611. He was a curé at Marseilles, where his attractive person and manners gained for him a footing in high society, but for all his priestly garb, he led an evil life. A girl whom he had seduced was sent by her parents to a convent of Ursulines, and here Gaufridi followed her, making the credulous nuns believe that a legion of demons possessed the convent. At the instance of the exorcist, who relieved the "possessed nuns Gaufridi was tried at Aix, and condemned to be burned alive. دو
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Gaugamela A village in Assyria , the scene of the last battle between Alexander and Darius, B. c. 331, commonly called the battle of Arbela. Geryon A monster, represented by the poets as having three bodies and three heads. It was killed by. Hercules . 126 IOOO CLASSICAL CHARACTERS
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PRESSURE precautions against Nihilists, the prison -of Alexander III.
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An instrument for determining dimensions or capacity. The watchmaker cannot be too careful in the selection of his measuring instruments, as accuracy and perfection in watchmaking are essential elements to success. Accuracy is more essential than finish, though both are desirable; still a movement that is accurate may be a fine time-keeper, although it may be lacking in finish and not artistic to look upon. Measuring instruments of all kinds should be handled with care, and in the more delicate ones cleanliness also plays an important part. You cannot expect accurate results from a fine Vernier caliper that is recklessly thrown into a heap of other tools upon the bench. It should be carefully handled, and when you are through using it you should carefully wipe it and place it in some drawer in your bench, where it will not be mutilated by being jammed against other tools.
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