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Kovel
(Encyclopedia)Kovel kōˈvəl, Rus. kôˈvĭl [key], Pol. Kowel, city (1989 pop. 67,000), NW Ukraine, on the Tura River. A rail junction and agriculture center, it has food and peat processing plants, railroad shop...home economics
(Encyclopedia)home economics, study of homemaking and the relation of the home to the community. Formerly limited to problems of food (nutrition and cookery), clothing, sewing, textiles, household equipment, housec...Bielefeld
(Encyclopedia)Bielefeld bēˈləfĕlt [key], city, North Rhine–Westphalia, N central Germany. It has been ...Altenburg
(Encyclopedia)Altenburg älˈtənbo͝ork [key], city, Thuringia, E Germany, on the Pleisse River. Manufactures include sewing machines, apparel, and cigars. Lignite is mined nearby. “...moccasin, in footwear
(Encyclopedia)moccasin, skin shoe worn by indigenous people of North America, excepting the sandal wearers of the Southwest area. There were two general types of moccasins, the hard-soled, which was used in the Eas...Bridgman, Laura
(Encyclopedia)Bridgman, Laura, 1829–89, the first blind and deaf person to be successfully educated, b. Hanover, N.H. Under the guidance of Dr. S. G. Howe, of the Perkins School for the Blind, she learned to read...Remington, Eliphalet
(Encyclopedia)Remington, Eliphalet ĭlĭfˈəlĭt [key], 1793–1861, American inventor, gunsmith, and arms manufacturer, b. Suffield, Conn. Trained in blacksmithing, he turned to gunsmithing at an early age. With ...mechanical advantage
(Encyclopedia)mechanical advantage: see machine. ...Savery, Thomas
(Encyclopedia)Savery, Thomas, c.1650–1715, English engineer. He became a military engineer, rising to the rank of captain by 1702. He spent his free time performing experiments in mechanics, inventing such device...Cartwright, Edmund
(Encyclopedia)Cartwright, Edmund, 1743–1823, English inventor and clergyman. He was the inventor of an imperfect power loom that, when finally patented (1785), became the parent of the modern loom. It was the fir...Browse by Subject
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