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 356
to vary, in a slight degree, the distribu-tion of the force over the path of the crank-pin, without affecting the total amount of power conveyedto it by the machinery. The comparative merits of long and short connecting-rods in other points ofview, involve considerations which it would be out of… … The return stroke, or the other semi-revolution of the crank, does not exactly correspond with thafigures shown in diagrams 5 and 6, owing to the reversed condition of the connecting-rod. The natureof the variation will be seen in fig. 6*, where the tangential force is shown for an entire…
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