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Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., IV: civilization in the United States. (search)
class has created in the modern age, we should be in much the same case as the Americans. We should be living with much the same absence of training for the sense of beauty through the eye, from the aspect of outward things. The American cities have hardly anything to please a trained or a natural sense for beauty. They have buildings which cost a great deal of money and produce a certain effect — buildings, shall I say, such as our Midland Station at St. Pancras; but nothing such as Somerset House or Whitehall. One architect of genius they had — Richardson. I had the pleasure to know him: he is dead, alas! Much of his work was injured by the conditions under which he was obliged to execute it; I can recall but one building, and that of no great importance, where he seems to have had his own way, to be fully himself; but that is indeed excellent. In general, where the Americans succeed best in their architecture — in that art so indicative and educative of a people's sense for <
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ne, Vol. XXX. pp. 34-39, gives some account of it, accompanied by a cut. G. and E. Scheutz, Swedish engineers, constructed a working machine, 1837-43, after studying the Babbage machine; it was brought to England in 1854. It is stated to have been bought for £ 1000 for the Dadley Observatory, Albany, N. Y. The Messrs. Scheutz have since completed one for the British government, which was subsequently employed in calculating a large volume of life-tables, which the authorities at Somerset House declare never would have been undertaken had not this machine been in existence. Cal′cu-lating and Meas′ur-ing In′struments. See under the following heads: — Abacus.Coin-assorter. Adding-machine.Coin-weighing machine. Addressing-machine.Comparateur. Almucanter-staff.Conformator. Ambulator.Counter. Angular instruments.Counter-scales. Arrow.Cross. Atwood's machine.Cross-staff. Authometer.Danish balance. Back-staff.Datum-line. Balance.Declinator. Ballot-box.Delineator.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
ks and falls; the fall of the upper block is spliced round the lower block, which becomes the runner. See whip; tackle. Whip′ping. （Bookbinding.) The over-seaming stitch, to secure a single leaf or plate in a book. Whipping-hoist (Somerset house, London). Whip′ping-hoist. A steam hoisting-device for use in buildings, etc. Fig. 7199 illustrates one employed in Somerset House, London. It is worked by low-pressure steam, and provided with safety-apparatus for preventing accidSomerset House, London. It is worked by low-pressure steam, and provided with safety-apparatus for preventing accidents in case of the rope breaking or any part getting out of order. Whip-rack. See whip-hanger. Whip-roll. （Weaving.) A roller or bar over which the yarn passes from the yarnbeam to the reed; by the pressure on the whip-roll, devices are brought into operation by which the rate of let-off is adjusted to the speed with which the weaving proceeds. See let-off. Whip-saw. A thin, narrow saw-blade strained in a frame, and used as a compass-saw in following curved lines. Of th
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 9: (search)
ent the lion of London. I sat between Sir John and Babbage, and had an excellent time. Sir John is a small man, and, I should think, a little more than fifty years old, and growing gray; very quiet and unpretending in his manner, and though at first seeming cold, getting easily interested in whatever is going forward. . . . At half past 8 we adjourned in mass, after a very lively talk, from the tavern, which was the well-known Crown and Anchor, in the Strand, to the Geological Rooms at Somerset House. . . . . Sedgwick read a synopsis of the stratified rocks of Great Britain; an excellent, good-humored extemporaneous discussion followed, managed with much spirit by Greenough, the first President, and founder of the Society; Murchison; Lyell, the well-known author; Stokes; Buckland; and Phillips of York. . . . . May 24.—Dined at Holland House, with Lady Fitzpatrick, Mr. Akerley,—who has done such good service as chairman of the committee on the Poor-Laws,—Lord Shelburne, Sir James Kemp<
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7: 1832-1834: Aet. 25-27. (search)
ed your museums have praised the kindness shown in intrusting to them the rarest objects, and I well know that the English rival other nations in this respect, and even leave them far behind. But one must have merited such favors by scientific labors; to a beginner they are always a free gift, wholly undeserved. . . . A few months later Agassiz received a very gratifying and substantial mark of the interest felt by English naturalists in his work. Charles Lyell to Louis Agassiz. Somerset house, London, February 4, 1834. . . It is with the greatest pleasure that I announce to you good news. The Geological Society of London desires me to inform you that it has this year conferred upon you the prize bequeathed by Dr. Wollaston. He has given us the sum of one thousand pounds sterling, begging us to expend the interest, or about seven hundred and fifty francs every year, for the encouragement of the science of geology. Your work on fishes has been considered by the Council a
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7: 1834-1837: Aet. 27-30. (search)
w facts, he almost felt himself forced to begin afresh the work he had believed well advanced. He might have been discouraged by a wealth of resources which seemed to open countless paths, leading he knew not whither, but for the generosity of the English naturalists who allowed him to cull, out of sixty or more collections, two thousand specimens of fossil fishes, and to send them to London, where, by the kindness of the Geological Society, he was permitted to deposit them in a room in Somerset House. The mass of materials once sifted and arranged, the work of comparison and identification became comparatively easy. He sent at once for his faithful artist, Mr. Dinkel, who began, without delay, to copy all such specimens as threw new light on the history of fossil fishes, a work which detained him in England for several years. Agassiz made at this time two friends, whose sympathy and cooperation in his scientific work were invaluable to him for the rest of his life. Sir Philip