Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 23
given a different name, because it is also often but erroneously called wrap-gearing. The transmis-sion of rotation in this form of gearing is due to the successive action of the laminae of one wheelupon those of the other, each in its own plane, however thin they may be supposed, exactly as…
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