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The book of wonders : gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of…
51. A weaver’s knot.]
The book of wonders : gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of…
51. A weaver’s knot.]
Chapter 8
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Chapter 1: Chapter 1
Chapter 2: Introduction
Chapter 3: introduction of water, either into the blood, the stomach or the large
Chapter 4: 1429. Burning glasses had, of course, been employed from the most
Chapter 5: 1672. One of the earliest engines used consisted of a tank drawn by two
Chapter 6: 1678. The fire engine was a hand pump bought in England.
Chapter 7: 950. The view shows how the ship is divided into numerous water-tight
Chapter 8: 51. A weaver’s knot.]
Chapter 9: 1. Tie a piece of twine (9 and 10, figure 6) around the rope to be
Chapter 10: 2. Butt the ropes together, and twist each corresponding pair of
Chapter 11: 3. The twine 10 is now cut, and the strand 8 unlaid, and strand 7
Chapter 12: 4. The strand 6 is next unlaid about one and a half feet, and strand 5
Chapter 13: 8. Cut all the strands off to a length of about twenty inches, for
Chapter 14: 9. From the point of meeting of the strands 8 and 7, unlay each one
Chapter 15: 10. The half of the strand 7 is now laid in three turns, and the half
Chapter 16: 11. The rope is now opened with a marlin-spike, and the half strand of
Chapter 17: 12. The other half of the strand 8 is now wound around the other half
Chapter 18: 1905. The cash-box was taken to New Scotland Yard, and the impression
Chapter 19: 32. II.
Chapter 20: introduction of machinery--suffered materially in the latter part of
Chapter 21: introduction of into Europe (illus.), 110
[Illustration: HOW TO SPLICE A ROPE ENGLISH SPLICE. For transmission rope. The successive operations for splicing a 1³⁄₄-inch rope by this method are as follows:
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