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 433
trying the strength of powder. The length of the branches A Cand C B is about 48 inches, and their breadth about an inch; a smallbrass cannon, whose breech H is on the branch C B of the balance,and whose mouth I is closed by the fuse IL of the obturation D IL Efixed on the other branch A C of the… … DYNAMOMETER. 425 of the balance approach, and the cursor k indicates on the scale the tension of the spring at the momentof the explosion. The iron D E, and the brass arc G H on which the scale is drawn, pass throughopenings p q,rs made in the middle of the plates C B and C A. A dynamometer for…
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