Water-bellows
A blast-machine consisting of two cisterns partly filled with water, in which are placed the induction and education pipes, both standing a little above the water. Inverted chambers suspended on the ends of a working-beam inclose the pipes within the cisterns, and as each chamber is made to rise alternately the air is drawn up through the induction-pipe into the chamber, and expelled at the eduction-pipe by means of suitable valves; the valve being at the top for induction, at the bottom for eduction.
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Water-boshes
Hollow cast-iron boshes or chambers, through which a constant supply of water is made to circulate, to prevent overheating and consequent fusion. See FINERY FURNACE; TYMP.
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Water-proof Glue
Melt common glue with the smallest quantity of water possible; add by degrees drying or boiled linseed oil. The ingredients must be well stirred while the oil is being added. See GLUE; CEMENT.
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Water-proof Polish
Alcohol 1 pint, gum-benzoin 2 oz., gum-sandarach 1/4 oz., gum-anime 1/4 oz.; put these in a stoppered bottle, and set in a hot-water or sand-bath until dissolved; then strain and add 1/4 gill of best poppy-oil, and shake well together.
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Water-Strider
a slender, long-legged bug noted for the lively way in which it circles around on the surface of wayside pools. It has a slender body and a wonderfully agile movement. A swarm of these insects will rest motionless until approached, when they set up a whirling dance, circling around each other so rapidly that they seem almost like ripples. The striders live on other insects. They may be seen to leap into the air to catch a passing midge. They glue their eggs to the stems of aquatic plants. In winter they seek shelter under stones or a projecting bank.
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Water-tuyere
This class of tuyere is used at the blast-furnaces to protect the walls of the hearth from the intense heat that is generated by the hot blast in the neighborhood of the tuyeres. They are of various kinds; some being rectangular in section and made of either cast or wrought iron or bronze, while others are simply a spiral tube, used alone or cast within a solid block. This tuyere is kept cool by a circulating current of water.
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Waterbury
a city in New Haven co., Conn.; at the confluence of the Naugatuck, Great Brook, and Mad rivers, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and the New England railroads; 33 miles S. W. of Hartford. Here are the Academy of Notre Dame, St. Margaret's School (P. E.), a high school, a Masonic Temple, a State armory, public library with over 50,000 volumes, many handsome churches and residences, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, National savings, and other banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. Waterbury is famous as the center of a vast manufacturing business in watches and clocks and is the first city in the United 312 WATER-COLOR PAINTING States in brass manufactures. Other manufactures include buttons, plated ware, pins, hooks and eyes, percussion caps, carriages, lamps, etc. The metal working industries were established here prior to 1800, and for a long period Waterbury was the only city in the United States engaged in these industries. The town was incorporated in 1686, and received its city charter in 1853. In F February, 1902, a large part of the business section usiness section of the city was destroyed by fire, but it was quickly ly rebuilt. Waterbury was one of the chief producers of munitions during the World War. Pop. (1910) 73,141; (1920) 91,- 715.
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Waterfall Blower
See TROMP. Water-gas is gas produced by passing steam over red-hot coke, which changes it to carbonic oxide and hydrogen, in which state it is made to absorb as much carbon as is necessary, by passing through a retort in which rosin is being subjected to the process of decomposition. See GAS. Water-glass is usually prepared by boiling silica with caustic alkali under pressure. It is soluble only in boiling water, and has the appearance of glass when pure and solid. See SOLUBLE GLASS.
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Waterford
a city and capital of Waterford co., Ireland; itself a county of a city; on the right bank of the Suir; and connected with its N. suburb of Ferrybank, by a bridge. Of several Catholic places of worship, including a cathedral, the finest is the Dominican Church of St. Savior; and the Protestant Episcopalians have also a cathedral and several churches. Other buildings are the Protestant Episcopal palace, the Catholic College of St. John, St. Dominic's Industrial School, convents, a town hall, market house, etc. Considerable sums have been expended in deepening the channel of the Suir, whose S. bank is fringed for a mile by a spacious quay, while on the Kilkenny side is a shipbuilding yard, with a patent slip, graving bank, and dock. Besides two immense bacon-curing uring establishments, Waterford has iron foundries, flo flour mills, breweries, etc. A memorial of Waterford's foundation by the Danes in the 9th century is "Reginald's Tower" (1003), which has witnessed the city's capture by Strongbow (1170), the repulse of Cromwell and surrender of Ireton (1649-1650), and the embarkation of James II. after the battle of the Boyne (1690). Pop. about 30,000.
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Waterhouse
ALFRED, an English architect; born in Liverpool, England, July 19, 1830; studied architecture in Manchester, France, and Italy; gained the competition for the Manchester Assize Courts, and also designed the Owens College and the town hall in that city. Among his chief works in London are the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, the New University Club, the National Liberal Club, Club, the New St. Paul's Schools, the City and Guilds' institute, and University College Hospital. He also partly reconstructed Balliol College, Oxford, and Caius and Pembroke, Cambridge. He was elected a royal academician in 1885. He died in London, Aug. 22, 1905.
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Watermelon
a running fruit-bearing vine of the gourd family, closely related to the cucumber, pumpkin, and squash. A native of tropical Africa. The African is traditionally fond of a watermelon. It would be an aggravation to describe its cool green rind or luscious red and pink flesh. Watermelons are raised successfully from Ontario to Texas, but reach their greatest development in Georgia where an official record gives the weight of an extreme specimen at one hundred twenty pounds. Melons of thirty to fifty pounds are large. Under modern systems of cultivation, large raisers locate near railroads and have temporary tracks laid out into the melon patch. Car lots are shipped in bulk; small lots are reshipped from wholesale centers in crates. Shippers' unions aim to direct shipments judiciously. The famous Muscatine watermelon is raised on an island in the Mississippi. The citron is a solid spherical melon used only for pickles and preserves. See Iowa ; Georgia ; Gourd ; Muskmelon
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