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 . rian marble bust of Paris, wearingthe Phrygian cap, and now in the Glyptothek,Munich. h is from a coin of the Emperor Verus, now inthe British Museum, and representing Armeniacapta. The ca])tive wears a phtij liat. i represents Dacia in mourning, with a pudding-crown hat on. It is the of one of Trajanscoins. j is from a coin of .toninris Pius, and repre


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 . rian marble bust of Paris, wearingthe Phrygian cap, and now in the Glyptothek,Munich. h is from a coin of the Emperor Verus, now inthe British Museum, and representing Armeniacapta. The ca])tive wears a phtij liat. i represents Dacia in mourning, with a pudding-crown hat on. It is the of one of Trajanscoins. j is from a coin of .toninris Pius, and representsthe goddess of lilierty. k is li-om a statue of the sleeping Endymion inthe Townley collection of the British Museum. I is from a bas-relief in the Vatican, and exhibitsthe head of a she|iherd. m shows the .sheiduM-d with his hat slungbehind his back. Borghese collection. 11, horseman with a Parthenon. op, silver coins of iEtolia in the British Museum. q, IVmu a vase of Sir W. Hamiltons. T is from an ancient marble bust. .9 ( are from coins of ancient Italy, and represent-ing heails of Mercury. In the thirteenth century, Pope Innocent IV. al-lowed the carilinals the use of scarlet cloth hats. Fig. Ancient Hats. The introduction of felt hats is credited to a Swiss,in Paris, in 1410, and in 1440 it is saiil to have be-come a common article of wear for travelers. HAT. 1071 HAT. In 1449, Charles VII. mailc his triumphal entryinto Kouen, wearing a felt hiit lined with red velvetand snrniounteil with a tine j)lnnie of feathers. Thisset the fashion, and hats soon superseded the oldchaperons and hoods. Chaueer, who wrote during the latter part of thefourteenth century, rejiresents the merchant as wear-ing a Flandei-3 heaver hat. This may antedate ourSwiss friend mentioned above. The hats referred to in the reign of Richard II.(1385) were probably of cloth. Felt hats are stated by one authority to have beenfirst made in England in 1470 ; and by another au-t


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