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 904
4119. … be weighed accurately in the ordinary manner. When it is desired to crush a test-piece or to maketests of transverse strength, the two blocks U, which are movable, support the specimen and rest onthe scale-platform. The cross-head R is then brought down on top of the test-piece, and the pres-sure…
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