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 . lla-paper. Made from tlie fiber of aspecies of banana which grows in some of the EastIiulia islands. It is whiter than hemp, and tlieproduct is a stout, serviceable article. The fibiiralso forms cordage, sometimes known as white Rope made principally in thePluliji[iine Islands, of the fibers of a .species of ba-nana. Ma-nipu-la-tor. The trans


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 . lla-paper. Made from tlie fiber of aspecies of banana which grows in some of the EastIiulia islands. It is whiter than hemp, and tlieproduct is a stout, serviceable article. The fibiiralso forms cordage, sometimes known as white Rope made principally in thePluliji[iine Islands, of the fibers of a .species of ba-nana. Ma-nipu-la-tor. The transmitting instrumentattached to the dialFig. 3048. telegraph. Fig. 3048, Bre-guets, has cor-responding to thatof the receiving in-strument, and an:irni which is turnedy a handle. Theeriphery of the diallias a notch at eachletter, into which apin attached to theliaiuUe falls to closethe circuit. Tliis iseffected by an undu-iliiiiiiulator. late wheel within the case, wdiichturns with the handle, alternately causing a pivotedlever to make connection with the battery and withthe earth. Man-of-war. (Nautical.) An armed nationalvessel. A line-of-battle ship is one of the , so as to take its place in line of Fig. 304a.


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