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 905
orked by a hand-wheelthrough a svstem of toothed wheels. The connections between the lever G and the screws whichcarry the cross-head are so arranged that by depressing the longer free arm of G the cross-head ispulled downward, and by raising the fulcrum of G the same result is produced. A rod A is… … TESTING MACHINES. 871 Si-^! 7: -f in a large cylindrical vessel containing oil and serving to prevent a too rapid fall of the loaded endof the lever. It is evident that if one end of a specimen—a rod of iron, for instance—be attached tothe frame D above the cross-head F, and the other end be…
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