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 893
paymg-4104, consisted of a large wheel E, about 4ft. in diameter, over which the cable waspassed, and then conducted through a troughF in which rollers were placed. In the pay-ing-out machinery the chief object to be at-tained was to supply some means of cheekingthe cable in the most regular manner…
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