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 427
r 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 DIL Efixed on the other branch A C of the… … DYNAMOMETER. 425 of the balance approach, and the cursor Tc 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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