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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 679

An illustration from Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts, 1880, leaf 679 — the coupling of the rear end of the car, tend to change the position of the car-body—the tendencybeing to change the curved line of the whole train into a straight line; this gives lateral forces which … are imparted to the trucks through their centres, and which on that account do not define what posi-tion the truck under their influence may take. Practice having shown that it is advantageous to RAILROAD CARS. 649 neutralize these lateral forces, the swinging arrangement, as described, has been…

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