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Scientific American, Vol. 59, No. 23 (1888) (1888)

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, not in proportion losses of heat are avoided on the one hand and losses of to the length, but in proportion to its square root. Fig. 1.—OSCILLATING AND CONICAL PENDULUMS. power, from friction, on the other. For example, while in New York it requires a pendu- or copper point, which is capable of… … ——_—_____ 62—_--—- —. way as to produce from the pendulum, A Petroleum Rocket Boat, the greatest re- A, only in the man- A novel craft, in the sistance from the ner in which it is water with the least disturbance of its inertia, per shape of a yacht, named used ; whereas the pendulum, A, is made to…

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