A piano having the strings mounted vertically in a rectangular case with the keyboard at a right angle…
Spring scales are used to weigh articles in which a high degree of exactness is not required. Spring…
The facial angle is an angle formed by two imaginary lines; one drawn fom the most prominent part of…
Evacuation of Corinth, Mississippi- Confederate fortifications, from the northern angle, looking south-…
The acroterium is the pedestal on the angle or apex of a pediment, intended as a base for sculpture.…
"The only species, C. ferox, is but fifteen inches long, but its strength is great. Its disposition…
"The investment of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark., by the Federal troops under General McClernand,…
A woman putting milk into a test bottle. The pipette is held at an angle with the test bottle and its…
The bakery. Near the southeastern angle of the range of barracks is the bakery; it is an under-ground…
Beloeil Mountain, this sketch is taken from the southeast angle of old Fort chambly, showing the rapids…
"Monument at Groton. This is a view from the southwest angle of old Fort Griswold, looking northeast.…
"Mrs. Falls'. This house, now (1850) owned by Mr. Samuel Moore, is a frame building, and stands on the…
"The Pen-Fish or Common Calamary, L. vulgaris, is the best-known species of the genus; the…
"View at Fort Moultrie. This view is from the southwestern angle of Fort Sullivan, looking toward Jame's…
"Small pedestals placed on the apex or angle of a pediment for the support of a statue or other ornament."-Whitney,…
"The hexagonal cells for the honey are build upon precisely that mathematical angle which affords the…
"An instrument consisting of a retangular crank-frame, like the carpenter's brace."-Whitney, 1902
"The Gorilla is a celebrated anthropoid ape, generally belived to come nearer than any known one to…
"Hedgehog is a quadruped distinguished by having the body covered with spines instead of hair. The skin…
"The Metacenter is the point of intersection of the vertical line passing through the center of gravity…
"Ancilia carried by Salii. The sacred shield carried by the Salii, and made of bronze. The original…
"An ornament of wooden planks, which constituted the highest part of the poop of a ship. From the representations…
A hinge or pivot. The first figure, in the annexed woodcut, is designed to show the general form of…
"Starfish is a popular name for any individual of the family Asteridæ, a familiar object on the…
"Starfish is a popular name for any individual of the family Asteridæ, a familiar object on the…
"Starfish is a popular name for any individual of the family Asteridæ, a familiar object on the…
"Starfish is a popular name for any individual of the family Asteridæ, a familiar object on the…
"Starfish is a popular name for any individual of the family Asteridæ, a familiar object on the…
"Athens is said to have derrived its name from the prominence given to its worship of Athena by its…
"The cut represents a painting from a wall at Pompeii, the subject of which is the sacrifice of Iphigenia,…
"An athletic game, in which all the powers of the fighter were called into action. The pancratium was…
"Without changing the grasp of the right hand, place the piece on the right shoulder, barrel up and…
"Raise the piece, right arm slightly bent, and incline the muzzle forward so that the barrel makes an…
"He then turns the barrel outward into the angle formed by the other two pieces and lowers the butt…
"Carry back the left foot and lie flat on the belly, inclining the body about 35 degree to the right."…
"Carry back the left foot and lie flat on the belly, inclining the body about 35 degree to the right."…
"To construct a sighting rest for the pistol take a piece of wood about ten inches long, one and a quarter…
A genus of wading birds, one species of which was regarded in ancient Egypt with a degree of respect…
"Orthohombic. Habit prismatic, showing usually a combination of prism with large angle, brachypinacoid,…
"An instrument for the measurement of horizontal angles, consisting essentially of a telescope mounted…
"1, Screw-wrench; 2, Tap-wrench; 3, Angle-wrench; 4, Tube-wrench; 5, Monkey-wrench for hexagonal and…
"This distinguished American was born in 1794, at Dorchester, near Boston, Massachusetts, entered Harvard…
A right-angled triangle is any triangle having one right angle. The side opposite the right angle is…
Interior of the ear. There is external to the head a wide-mouthed tube, or ear-trumpet (a), for catching…
Built on the right angle triangle and, like the Signet of David, it is found in many of the Turkish…
This illustration shows a rock formation that has a tilted strata. d p is the direction of the dip.…
This illustration shows a rock formation that has a tilted strata. a b c d represents a square block…
Muscles of the face, jaw and neck. 1, longus colli; 2, rapezius; 3, sterno-hyoid; 4, sterno-mastoid;…
An instrument consisting essentially of a dipping needle, a verticle graduated circle whose center coincides…
A solid consisting of 12 similiar faces, each of which is rhomb, the angle between any two adjacent…
"The outer edge is a semicircle, with center at 0, and is divided into 360 parts. Each division is one-half…
"A patented frame that can be shoved out of the window and adjusted to any angle; it is made in different…
"Carte, Guard. Turn wrist with nails upwards; hand on a line with lower part of breast; arm somewhat…
"Seconde, Parade. Nails and wrist downward, hand opposed outward, and blade, pointing low, should form…
"An instrument much employed in land-surveying for the measurement of angles horizontal and verticle."…
"E represents the scape-wheel turning in a minute, and e its pinion, which is driven by the wheel D…