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 908
described upon the paper is always of such formthat the ordinate of any point measures the amountof the distortion which the force produces. Methods of Making Tests.—For Tensile Stress.—1. The machine itself should be tested to determinewhether its weighing apparatus is accurate, andwhether it is…
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