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 . Francises Life-Car and Ball with Clan are inclosed in the cai, and the trips are made byhauling on a rope attached to the car and graspedby parties on board and ashore. One of these cars was the means of saving 200passengeis from the Ayrshire, which went ashoreat Long Hrauch, Januaiy, 1850. Life-guard. (Locnmotive - au/inc.) Safeguard,rail-guard, sweeper. The de
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 . Francises Life-Car and Ball with Clan are inclosed in the cai, and the trips are made byhauling on a rope attached to the car and graspedby parties on board and ashore. One of these cars was the means of saving 200passengeis from the Ayrshire, which went ashoreat Long Hrauch, Januaiy, 1850. Life-guard. (Locnmotive - au/inc.) Safeguard,rail-guard, sweeper. The device embracing thebrooms fixed in front of a locomotive for clearingsmall obstniitious from the track. Life-line. (Nnutica!.) a. A line stretched abovea yaril to enable seamen to stand thereon in manningyards. Li/e-Mnttress. between them an air-bag, confined in a fibrous sackto jirevent rupture, the whole forming an elastic bed,which may be separated into several distinct life-preservers in accidents on water. Life-pieservers of cork date back tothe time of the early Romans. TheRoman messenger sent by Camillusto the Capitol, when besiiged, swamthe Tiber with a cork-jacket. The bamboo habit, or Chinese life-preserver, consists o
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