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 516
sists of a single screw with a rim-wheel handle and a female screw with projecting arms terminatingin trunnions, which fit in journal-boxes on the sides of the trail. The striking peculiarity of thiscarriage is the application of the hydraulic buffer for checking the recoil in carriages of this…
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