Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 355
ing on the crank-pin, at every point of its semi-revolution from E to F, Nos. 1, 2, and 3. The curve of this figure is alsolaid down by rectangular co-ordinates : the path of the crank-pin (reduced to a straight line) forms theline of the abscissa, while the ordinates express the corresponding… … 0 50° 100° 150° The additional scale, under this figure, shows the position of the piston corresponding to any givenposition of the crank: thus, hi fig. 5, when the crank is at 140°, the piston has moved through ^ ofits stroke, and so on. The lines representing the forces are measured by a scale,…
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