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 732
gfrom the rigidity of ropes when bent round rollers or cylinders. The results areas follows : 1. The resistance of ropes are directly proportional to the tensions towhich they are subjected. 2. The resistance increases with some determinate power of the diameter,and is greatest in ropes that have… … 723 FRINGE MACHINE, SHAWL. When a rope is wound more than once round a cylinder, the resistance increases in a geometricalprogression, This principle is frequently applied in practice: thus, in arresting the progress of a vessel,B rope is wound round a post, ami a very low turns is sufficient to…
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