Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Engineers, Military
ENGINEERS, MILITARY. From the earliest times engineers have been employed both in the field of war and on field defences. In modern times, however, the application of numerous scientific and engineering devices to warfare has resulted in the creation of many m ...
Vol. 9, pp. 406-407 · ocr-imported-page-alignedEnergy
... the latitude of London, which is the unit of work generally adopted by British engineers,, and is called the " foot-pound." The most appropriate unit for scientific purposes is one which depends only on the fundamental units of length, mass and time, and is h ...
Vol. 9, pp. 398-405 · ocr-imported-page-alignedEngineering
... ns of those who constructed engines of war and executed works intended to serve military purposes. Such military engineers were long the only ones to whom the title was applied. But about the middle of the 1 8th century there began to arise a new class of engi ...
Vol. 9, pp. 406-406 · ocr-imported-page-alignedUnited States
... American pioneer. Finally, there were in 1790 about a score of small trading or military posts, mainly of French origin, scattered over the then almost unbroken wilderness of the upper Mississippi Valley and region of the Great Lakes. Twelve decennial censuses ...
Vol. 27, pp. 612-735 · ocr-imported-page-alignedTelegraph
... marine Telegraphy " (1907), Lectures to Royal Naval War College (1910) and R.E. Military School (1908) on " Submarine Cable Laying and Repairing," and articles in Quarterly Review (April 1903) on Imperial Telegraphs," and in Edinburgh Review (April 1908) on " ...
Vol. 26, pp. 510-540 · ocr-imported-page-alignedTelephone
... itters are joined up non-inductively as regards From the Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal. FIG. 8. — Hayes Common Battery System. The Stone system (fig. 9) is characterized by the use of imped- I the transmitter circuits, but inductively as regards th ...
Vol. 26, pp. 547-556 · ocr-imported-page-alignedTexas
... left to the Spanish. Beginning in 1690 they established several ecclesiastical, military and civil settlements known respectively as missions (Franciscan), presidios, and pueblos. In or near the city of San Antonio are the ruins of five missions built of stone ...
Vol. 26, pp. 688-693 · ocr-imported-page-alignedTheatre
... ready one or two notable exceptions of men who are advancing to the position of engineers rather than carpenters. In Germany and Austria the stage carpenter is already being replaced in most theatres by men of engineering or technical training, as the more com ...
Vol. 26, pp. 729-738 · ocr-imported-page-alignedTheology
... elaide as the chief adviser of the new emperor, whom she accompanied on several military expeditions. She introduced many Byzantine customs into the German court. After the death of Otto in December 983 she returned to Germany, which she governed with conspicu ...
Vol. 26, pp. 772-785 · ocr-imported-page-alignedTolstoy, Leo
... ditions in which Tolstoy took part were his first taste of warfare. Neither his military duties nor his love of sport entirely absorbed him, however. The great power which had hitherto lain dormant now awoke. He began to write, and within the next few years pr ...
Vol. 26, pp. 1053-1060 · ocr-imported-page-aligned