Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 354
rights. A square shaft a, (figs. 1020 and 1022,) 2 £ inch diameter, runs the entire length of thetram road, and is attached to the longitudinal beams by movable support, bbb. This shaft is connect-ed at one extremity to the engine. Upon it, and revolving with it, is placed a drum, c, which works… … bevel wheels ff, which revolve freely on the shaft, are made so as to turn the bevel wheel g, by meansof the clutch box h, which is attached to the shaft; so that by withdrawing the clutch box from one ofthe bevel wheels and putting it in gear with the other, the motion of the bevel wheel g, is…
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