An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 360
e patient and agent The power is ihe agent whichmoves or endeavours to move the patient or weight, whilst by the word equilibrium ismeant an equality of action or force between two or more powers or weights acting againsteach other, and which by destroying each others effects cause it to remain at… … J-iK SlU. -.540 TIIKORY OF ARCIiri i:CTLRE. 1?..ok II. of the weiglit of the body ; but it may be easily imagined that the first tlircad, l)y being inthe direction AD, will, besides the weight itself, have to sustain the ellbrt of the powerthat draws it out of the vertical AB. 12-15. If the…
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