The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . premiums and certificates ffir me-chanical inventions. The Institute building islocated at 15 .South 7th Street, Philadelphia. Franklinism. See Electhicity. Franklinite, a native oxide of zinc, manga-nese and iron, containing these metals in ratherwidely varying proportions. It crystallizes inthe isometric system with octahedral habit, andalso occurs in massive and granular forms. Itis opaque, slightly magnetic, and iron-black mcolor, commonl
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . premiums and certificates ffir me-chanical inventions. The Institute building islocated at 15 .South 7th Street, Philadelphia. Franklinism. See Electhicity. Franklinite, a native oxide of zinc, manga-nese and iron, containing these metals in ratherwidely varying proportions. It crystallizes inthe isometric system with octahedral habit, andalso occurs in massive and granular forms. Itis opaque, slightly magnetic, and iron-black mcolor, commonly with a metallic lustre. Itshardness varies from to , and its specificgravity from to In the United Statesit occurs in considerable quantity in the neigh-borhood of Franklin Furnace, N. J., taking itsname from the locality, where it is mined as anore of zinc, its manganese and iron being meltedinto spiegeleisen. an alloy used in the manu-facture of Bessemer steel. Franks, Sir Augustus Wollaston, Englisharchaeologist: b. Geneva, Switzerland. 1826; 22 May 1897. He was graduated atCambridge University in 1849; became an as-. FRANKS sistant in the British Museum in 1851; andserved as keeper of the Department of Britishand Mediaeval Antiquities for many years. Hewas knighted in 1888; and was president of theSociety of Antiquities from 1892 till his publications include Recent Excavationsand Discoveries on the Site of Ancient Carth-age (i860) ; Guide to the Christy Collection ofPrehistoric Antiquities and Ethnography(1868) ; Catalogue of a Collection of OrientalPorcelain and Pottery (1876); etc. Franks (Spearmen), The. In the 3d century (the name first appears in 240, un-der the Emperor Gordian), the scattered Teu-tonic tribes north and east of the middle andlower Rhine, in the present Westphalia, Hesse,Gelderland, etc., united in a loose confederacy;very probably compacted by the ancestor of theMeroving family, to whom the Franks clung soloy
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