could resist transverse rupture until the pres- other horizontal so that the rope may run easily. The end sure of the steam reached 1,376 Ibs. to the inch, and longitudi- is then pulled downward, until the lineis brought to a proper nal rupture up to 797 Ibs. to the square inch, is not material… … The experiment was . er which exploded disastrously on loosely on its pivot, and when the line is brought against it constructed by stretch- Stone street, New York ; the rup- and pulled downward it swings, and thus admits the line, ATA ing a piece of wire ture was transverse, and therefore which is…
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