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 381
motion of the carriage along the raceway /. Now suppose a sheet of parallel threads to be stretchedabove this carriage and beneath the shuttle p. The only points where these threads will be in con-tact with carriage and shuttle are obviously between the wheels 3 of the former and wheels 4 of…
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