Biography Category
(m lr d´ ) (KEY) , 1786–1863, Irish genre painter. He began as a drawing master and an illustrator of children’s books. After 1809 he devoted him...
(n ´sm th) (KEY) , 1758–1840, Scottish landscape and portrait painter. His Stirling Castle (National Gall., London) is a good example of his simple...
in metallurgy, any process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore. Smelting processes vary in detail depending on the nature...
1857–1900, American astronomer, b. La Salle, Ill. At the age of 21 he went on the Naval Observatory expedition to Colorado to observe the solar ecli...
(sm h l´ ) (KEY) , c.1815–1907, Native American prophet, chief of a small tribe (the Wanapun) of the Columbia River valley. He preached a religion ...
(s ´f n, –f n) (KEY) , tube through which a liquid is lifted over an elevation by the pressure of the atmosphere and is then emptied at a lower lev...