American horological journal, devoted to practical horology (1869)
Miller, George B · New York, G. B. Miller · leaf 141
esrevolving around their owncentres, we know that a pointon the circumference will move faster thanany point within the circumference; and thatthe motion uniformly decreases as we approachthe centre. Proceeding in this way, we may imaginethat we reach a point infinitely near thecentre, where the… … AMERICAN HOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. 135 and let us apply a constant power successive-ly at different lengths of these arms; themfrom what we know of the nature of levers,the longer the arms the greater will be thepower; and, since friction is a power of resist-ance to motion, the effect of it will be…
Clocks and watches
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