The Principles of Mechanics ...: To which is Now Added, an Appendix; Containing Explanatory Notes, Illustrations, and Observations. A New Edition, with Important Corrections ...Knight and Lacey at the James Watt, 1825 - 318 pages |
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... example of those whose occupations are more directed to what is of real benefit to mankind - the im- provement of our manufactures , -than to speculations of the learned . Many obstacles have presented them- selves , as regards the form ...
... example of those whose occupations are more directed to what is of real benefit to mankind - the im- provement of our manufactures , -than to speculations of the learned . Many obstacles have presented them- selves , as regards the form ...
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... example , it appears by experiments , that if a hard body be suspended at several heights , and be let fall upon any soft substance , such as tallow , soft clay , wax , snow , & c . it will make pits or impressions , which are as the ...
... example , it appears by experiments , that if a hard body be suspended at several heights , and be let fall upon any soft substance , such as tallow , soft clay , wax , snow , & c . it will make pits or impressions , which are as the ...
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... examples in practice , by shewing the construction of several mechanic engines , and com- puting their powers . As there is great skill and sagacity in con- triving fit and proper ways to perform any motion , so this is prin- cipally to ...
... examples in practice , by shewing the construction of several mechanic engines , and com- puting their powers . As there is great skill and sagacity in con- triving fit and proper ways to perform any motion , so this is prin- cipally to ...
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... EXAMPLE II . £ A windlass , and a capstan in a ship , and a crane to draw up goods out of a ship or boat , may be referred to the wheel and axle . EXAMPLE III . " All edge tools and instruments with a sharp point , to cut , cleave ...
... EXAMPLE II . £ A windlass , and a capstan in a ship , and a crane to draw up goods out of a ship or boat , may be referred to the wheel and axle . EXAMPLE III . " All edge tools and instruments with a sharp point , to cut , cleave ...
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... EXAMPLE VII . The steelyard AB ( Fig . 8. Pl . XVIII . ) is nothing but a lever , whose fulcrum is C , the centre of motion . If the weight P , placed at D , reduces the beam AB to an equilibrium ; and there be taken the equal divisions ...
... EXAMPLE VII . The steelyard AB ( Fig . 8. Pl . XVIII . ) is nothing but a lever , whose fulcrum is C , the centre of motion . If the weight P , placed at D , reduces the beam AB to an equilibrium ; and there be taken the equal divisions ...
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Page xxv - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
Page 155 - ... provided the elbow of one of the handles be at right angles to that of the other. And with a fly, or heavy wheel, applied to it, a man may do...
Page 131 - To shew that the resultant thrust on any plane surface under fluid pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area of the surface and whose height is the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface.
Page xvii - Being preceded and led by- a boy, hired for that purpose, he crawled in slow and solemn state, at the rate of a mile and a half in an hour, till in due time he arrived at Darlington, and was conducted, in the same state, to the great entertainment of the spectators, through the streets to the inn where he wished to refresh himself and his beast. What idea Emerson himself entertained of the velocity with which the animal could move, appears from this, that when a neighbour of his, from Hurworth, asked...
Page 110 - ... in a few hours. Now, the weight of a column of air of the height of the atmosphere is equal to that of a column of mercury twenty-eight inches high, or of a column of water of the height of about thirty-three feet.
Page xxv - Force is a power exerted on a body to move it. If it act but for a moment, it is called the force of percussion or impulse. If it act constantly, it is called an accelerative force.
Page 50 - If a line be drawn from the centre of gravity of a body perpendicular to the horizon, it is called the line of direction, because it is the line that the centre of gravity would describe if the body fell freely.
Page 44 - For since the time of vibration is to the time of descent through half the length of the pendulum, as the circumference of a circle to its diameter, that is, as 3.14159 to 1?
Page 14 - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Page 99 - ... the great limbs is stronger than that of the small ones, and the wood in the heart of a sound tree is strongest of all. I have also found by experience, that a piece of timber, which has borne a great weight for a small time, has broke with a far less weight, when left upon it for a far longer time.