A Century of Mixing and Metallurgy in the United States
Centennial Address by Abram Hewitt at the American Institute of Mining Engineers in Philadelphia on June 20, 1876 outlines early American iron and mining history. It covers exploration, Jamestown mining fever, iron works beginnings, colonial iron policies, and early industrial development shaping U.S. metallurgy.
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United States
Abram & Hewitt
American Institute of Mining Engineers
Philadelphia
Institute
New World
India
Europe
North
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Mexico
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South Carolina
Georgia
James
North American
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4Th Parallel
London
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Virginia
Chickahominy River
Pacific Ocean
California
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Albiet
Jamestown
Sanestown
England
American
John B. Pearse
Col. Spotswood
Pearse
New England
Pennsylvania
Hodge
Whitney
Pembroke
Mass
House of Commons
Colonies
How the Declaration Was Written in Philadelphia Parlor
A July Scribeer's Magazine inspired account notes Jefferson wrote the Declaration in a second floor parlor at a Market and Seventh street house rented for thirty five shillings weekly. Franklin Adams and others offered amendments while flies and heat spurred the final Congress vote and the reading in Independence Hall yard.
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Scribeer’s Magazine
Jefferson
Franklin
Adams
Sheaman
Livingston
Congress
Philadelphia
Knowiny
Our Liberties
Webster
Market and
Seventh Streets
Independence Square
Sherman
Parton
John Hancock
John Bull
Agost
Harrison
Edbridge Gerry
Gerry
Cnly
John Nixon
Independence Hall
Supreme Court
Independence Hell
New Hard Diamond Tools When Working Mens Hard Metals
Describes the mechanical value of diamonds and new alloys for durable cutting tools. Notes 1877 prize by Societe d Encouragement de industrie Nationale for compact black diamonds to aid hard metal work. Details diamond drills used in mining, quarrying, and stone carving with high speed rotating bits and sharp edges.
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Societe d’Encouragement
Poor Pindustrie Nationale
Paris
England
Europe
America
High Precare Steam and Its False Promise in Engine Work
In mechanical engineering the past year has yielded few novelties and more wasted effort chasing high pressure steam as a fuel saver. Expansion gains depend on terminal pressure, not initial pressure, and practical limits around eight pounds per square inch curb expansion benefits. Isherwood showed expansion raises consumption, condenser effects hinder large expansion, and Watt’s condenser equals longer single cylinders rather than true separate condensation.
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Merriott
Isherwood
United States
Marriott
Watt
Fire Proof Suit Demonstrated in Vienna Parade
A Swedish inventor Deatherg unveiled a fire proof suit in Vienna before Emperor William. Captain Ahistrum wore the garment and walked into a wood and petroleum fire. The heat kept others eighty paces away while the captain moved about the flames undisturbed for fifteen minutes and emerged unharmed with no smell of fire on his clothes.
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Deatherg
Vienna
William
Ahistrum
Sleeping on the right side aids digestion and prevents death
The piece argues that sleeping on the right side favors the stomach and prevents danger from a late meal, while left or back sleeping can hinder blood flow and cause nightmares or faintness. It warns that waking from a large late meal can cause severe illness or death and urges a lighter final meal and regular three meals daily. Hall's Journal.
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Hall
Lactate of soda as sedative and other news items
Repeated tests by Ros Anaciotis and Dr W Preyer of Jena note lactate of soda injections or heavy ingestion produce sleepiness and fatigue, with variable effects across species and conditions. American and French notices report an elderly banquet for 80plus, a missing gold lump from San Francisco Mint ashes, and a Mint surge in coinage ahead of annual closure.
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W. Preyer
Jena
Sasony
Preyer
United States
San Francisco
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