Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . ure. {Pi-intinc/.) The metallicportion of the pieces used in filling up blanks, etc.,in chases. It includes reglet, side sticks, head and footsticks, qiintition furniture (hollow jiieces of metalused to fill \ip blank spaces), and hollow is convenient to have reglet, etc. ready cut intolengths, varying from 18 to 120 or 130 ems. SeeFURNITURE. Metal-g
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . ure. {Pi-intinc/.) The metallicportion of the pieces used in filling up blanks, etc.,in chases. It includes reglet, side sticks, head and footsticks, qiintition furniture (hollow jiieces of metalused to fill \ip blank spaces), and hollow is convenient to have reglet, etc. ready cut intolengths, varying from 18 to 120 or 130 ems. SeeFURNITURE. Metal-gage. One for determining the thick-ness of slieet-metal. A sheet-metal gage. Metal-ine. A compound for journal-boxes ofmetal, metallic oxide, organic matter, reduced topowder and compounded with wax, gum, or fattymatters. See JoLRX.\i,-Bn,x. Me-tallio Ba-rome-ter. One as contradistin-guished from an instrument in which a fluid is em-]doyed. Also known as a hootcric barometer. Vidiinvented the diaphragm form. {See.\) Bout-don invented the b?nt-tube form ; a flattened, curved,exhausted tube, one end of which is fixed and theother geared to an index-pointer which traverses agraduated arc. Changes of pressure of the atnios-. Iron Chair, ))here atiect the curvature of the tube, and so movethe finger. See BouuDOX B.\ROMETER. Me-tallic Cartridge. One in which the chargeis contained in a metallic capsule, in contradistinc-tion to the jiajier cartridge. See Cartridge. Me-tallic Chair. A chair of iron slats or wiresinterwoven, or of cast jiortions se- Fig. 3127. cured by rivets orscrew-bolts. Used for parks,gardens, and andi-toriunjs. Me-tallicDust. Grains ofmetal for giving ametallic luster towall-paper, shell-work, lacqueredware, and for otherpurposes. It wasfirst made by JohnHautsch of Nu-remberg (1595-1670). It is pre-pared by siftingthe filings of differ-ent metals, wash-ingthem in a stronglye, and then pla-cing them on a me-tallic plate over astrong fire, wherethey are cont
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