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 384
POWER. 367 this result, because the wheels 3 rotate the wheels 4 at precisely the same speed; so that thesuccessive threads, for the inappreciable instant of time during which they are between shuttle andcarriage, sustain no disarrangement from their normal position beyond the very slight… … nothing, being applied at the mere line formed at the place of contact of two rolling bodies, andthis never twice at the same points considered in horizontal succession from thread to thread, becausethe sheds are constantly alternating and constantly being moved bodily away as the weaving…
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