Whalebone
a horny substance, occurring in long, thin plates, fringed at the edges, and acting as a strainer to detain the whale's food when the animal ejects the water which it has swallowed with the medusæ and small fry which constitute its food. The principal source of whalebone is the "right whale," so called, the Balæna mysticetus or australis. Some 300 of the plates are found in the mouth of an adult whale, and vary from 10 to 15 feet in length. Being very flexible, strong, elastic, and light, whalebone is employed for many purposes, as for ribs to umbrellas and parasols, for stiffening ladies' corsets, etc. Also, and more properly, called baleen. BOW-HEAD WHALE
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Whalley
EDWARD, an English regicide; born in England presumably about 1620. During the Revolution of 1642 he was a member of the Parliamentarian party, and commanded the force that defeated the cavalry of Sir Marmaduke Langdale at Naseby in 1645. Subsequently he was made custodian of King Charles at Hampton Court. He was a member of the court which condemned that monarch to death, and he also signed his death warrant. After the restoration of the Stuarts Whalley fled to America with his son-in-law, William Goffe. He died in Hadley, Mass., about 1678.
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Wharton, Edith Jones
Edith Jones (1862-), an American novelist. She was born in New York and was educated at private schools. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton and has since resided abroad for the most part. Her novels have been published in this country, many of them appearing serially in various periodicals. The Greater Inclination, The Valley of Decision, Sanctuary, The Touchstone, House of Mirth, and Fruit of the Tree may be mentioned among them.
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Whately
RICHARD, clergyman; born in London, England, an English Feb. 1, 1787, son of the Rev. Joseph Whately. He received his education at a private school at Bristol, and at Oriel College, Oxford. He graduated B. A. in 1808, and in 1810 won the English essay prize. In 1819 he made his first appearance as an author by publishing famous "Historic Doubts relative to his Napoleon Bonaparte." In 1822 Whately was appointed Bampton lecturer at Oxford, and delivered eight lectures the Use and Abuse of Party Feeling Matters of Religion. " He held the of Halesworth in Suffolk in 1822-1825 and was then appointed principal of Alban's Hall, Oxford. In the latter he published " Essays on Some of Peculiarities of the Christian Religion A second series of essays " On Difficulties in the Writings of St. and Other Parts of the New Testament came out in 1828; and a third " The Errors of Romanism traced to Origin in Human Nature, " in 1830. 1827 was published " The Elements Logic, " and the scarcely less " Elements of Rhetoric " in 1828. Both these works were written originally the " Encyclopædia Metropolitana. " occupied the chair of political a at Oxford in 1830-1831, and afterward published " Introductory Lectures Political Economy. " Appointed bishop of Dublin, 1831. Died Oct.,
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Wheatley
HENRY BENJAMIN, woolly an English philologist; born in Chelsea, London, England, May 2, 1838. He was exist. and an official of various London literary and of other societies. Besides editing a numadapted ber of works, he wrote: "Anagrams" wheat (1862); "Round About Piccadilly and fine Pall Mall" (1870); "Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In" (1880); "Decorative Art" (1884); "How to Form a Library" (1886); "How to Catalogue a Library" (1887); "Literary Blunders" (1893); "Hogarth's London" (1909), etc.
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Wheaton College
an institution for the higher education of women, es Cyc tablished in Norton, Mass., in 1834, as the Newton Female Seminary. In 1912 it assumed the name and rank of a college. The productive funds amount to about $1,000,000. There were in 1919 30 instructors and 200 students. President, Samuel V. Cole, D. D.
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Wheel Cutter
The wheel cutter is a valuable addition to the lathe. Several different styles of these tools are made, each possessing points of merit. They are designed for cutting all kinds of wheels and pinions used in key and stem-wind watches. When the cutter spindle is vertical the belt runs directly to it from the countershaft, but when horizontal the belt passes over idler pulleys held above the lathe. These idler pulleys are also used to run the pivot polisher. Fig. 316 illustrates the American Watch Tool Company's wheel cutter.
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Wheel Vise
Rose's patent wheel vise, shown in Fig. 317 is used for holding all kinds of watch wheels while undergoing repairs, such as putting in new teeth, removing rust from pinions, etc., and for holding balance wheels while putting in or removing the screws, taking the hair spring or collet from staff, or for any work where the safety of the wheel is involved.
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Wheelbarrows
There is now an almost infinite variety of wheelbarrows, manufactured and ready to hand, including steel foundry-barrows, steel square trays, pig-iron barrows with one or two wheels, charging-barrows for blast-furnaces and gas-retorts, etc., always in stock at the foundry-supply dealers.
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Wheeling
a city and county-seat of Ohio co., W. Va.; on the Ohio river, and on the Wheeling and Lake Erie, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the Ohio River, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads; 65 miles S. W. of Pittsburgh, Pa. Part of the city is on an island in the river, connected with the main part by by bridges. Here are a United States Government building, court house, public library, Masonic and Odd Fellows' halls, Wheeling and city hospitals, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, National, State, and savings banks, and a number of daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Manufacturing is greatly promoted by the natural gas and bituminous coal found abundantly in the vicinity. The principal plants include steel and iron works, blast furnaces, glass factories, tobacco and cigar factories, foundries, boiler works, stove works, canneries, ice factory, machine shops, brass foundry, planing mills, etc. Wheeling was settled in 1769, and was the scene of battles with the British_and Indians during the Revolutionary War. In 1863-1870, and in 1875-1885 it was the State capital. Pop. (1910) 41,641; (1920) 56,208.
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