Each of these 13 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
A form of stud, usually made by bending a short piece of hoop-iron so that the open end serves to spring back, and hold in place some loose core or piece of mould. Their strength must be in proportion to the pressure to be exerted, and some consideration should be given to the possibility of their melting in places where there is a strong current of molten metal. See CHAPLETS.
Only in The Encyclopedia of Founding
an educational institution in Mobile, Ala.; founded in 1836 under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church; reported at the
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A steel device for drawing very small patterns from the sand. Two fine stems connect with a spring which exerts its power in an outward direction, thus spreading the stems with force in the small hole made to receive it; after the manner of tweezers. See SPIKE.
Only in The Encyclopedia of Founding
a city of Illinois, in Bureau co., on the Illinois river and on the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific, the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroads. It has a public library, high schools, and a hospital. Pop. (1910) 7,- 035; (1920) 6,493.
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SIR CECIL AR- THUR, an English diplomat; born in 1859. He was educated at Oxford University and entered the diplomatic service. He served as secretary of legation at Brussels, Washington, Tokyo, Berlin, and Constantinople. From 1906 to 1908 he was minister and consul general to Persia, and from 1908 to 1912 minister to Sweden. He succeeded James Bryce as ambassador to the United States in the latter year. At the outbreak of the World War he filled his difficult post in Washington with great tact. He died in 1918.
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J. W. Frodsham, 4to, London, 1839. A Treatise on the Management of Public Clocks, etc., Francis Abbot, London. No date. About 1840. Three editions. Eiffe's Improvements in Chronometers and Molyneux's Specification of Patent for Improvement in Chronometers. 4to, London, 1842.
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Only in American Watchmaker and Jeweler
This is simply a gardener's watering-pot, with a rose for sprinkling the water when it is desired to moisten the sand precisely. A special class of goods for the foundry are made of galvanized iron and copper, very strong, and with double bottoms. The regular dealers in foundry-supplies have all sizes in stock.
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WILLIAM CAMERON, an American manufacturer and public official, born in Octoraro, Lancaster co., Pa., in 1870. He was educated at Swarthmore College. He received honorary degrees from Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania College, Lafayette fayette College, Pennsylvania Military College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pittsburgh. He was the organizer and president of various manufacturing concerns in Chester Pa., also organized and developed numerous railroads, mining, traction, and power enterprises in West Virginia, held an active interest in many banks, and owned the Chester, Pa., "Daily Times" and "Morning Republican." Beginning with 1896, he was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for a period of 22 years, serving as president pro tem. from 1903 to 1905. In 1919 he was elected to a four-year term as governor of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and of numerous patriotic and social societies and clubs.
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a genus of cone-bearing trees. The spruce belongs to the pine, rather than to the cypress group of evergreens. The cones are at the tips of the branches. The needles are keeled above and below, making them four-sided. They are scattered over the branchlets and point in every way. Spruce timber makes excellent lumber. Most newspapers are printed on paper made wholly or in part from spruce pulp. Bamboo pulp is the chief rival of spruce in paper making. The black spruce is from forty to fifty feet high. The white spruce, a handsomer tree, grows from fifty to one hundred fifty feet high. They are found from New England to Minnesota and northward. Resinous drops exuding from the bark of the spruce are collected for chewing gum. Engelmann's spruce is one of the finest timber trees of the Pacific Northwest. Under favorable circumstances it attains a trunk diameter of four to five feet, and yet in Alpine situations it becomes a prostrate shrub. Spruce is an old name for Prussia. It appears in spruce-leather and spruce-fir, meaning Prussian-leather and Prussian-fir. From spruce-leather the word spruce was extended to fashionable attire generally. As the name of a tree, spruce-fir was cut down to spruce. The phrase "to look spruce" has reference to foot-wear and dress, not to the trim, correct appearance of the spruce tree. See Paper
Only in Aiton's Encyclopedia
A watch in which the hairspring is attached to the staff above the balance.
Only in American Watchmaker and Jeweler
WILLIAM, an American public official, born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, in 1864. He came to America in 1875 and was educated in the public schools of Utah. After a short business career in Salt Lake City, he devoted himself to farming and stock raising, and also became president of a bank in Salt Lake City, as well as director of various other institutions. Beginning with 1894, he has held public office continuously, serving successively as county collector, city councilman, president of the State Board of Land Commissioners, Comm Commissioners, United States marshal for Utah, and from 1909 to 1917 was governor of Utah.
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A goblin of the same nature as the Scottish "Kelpie." He is popularly believed to be an agent of Satan, and travellers who have lost their way are his especial prey. He attracts his unfortunate victim by means of a light, which looks as if it were a reflection on a window, and is apparently not far away; but as the man proceeds towards it, like the rainbow it recedes. However, he still follows its gleam, until the Spunkie has successfully lured him over a precipice or into a morass.
Only in An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
a metal instrument composed of a shank, neck, and prick or rowel, fastened to the heel of a horseman to goad his horse to greater speed. Its use cannot with certainty be traced further back than Roman times. Early spurs had no neck, a prick being riveted to the shank. Prick spurs had straight necks in the 11th century and bent ones in the 12th. Rowels first appeared early in the 14th. The spurs of mediæval knights were gilt and those of esquires silvered. "To win his spurs" meant to gain knighthood.
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