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 26
frame, and turns on the centralstandard, which makes part of the base-frame, without supports or bearings at tlie top. The whole canbe taken apart for transportation, and can be again put together with ease. The whole strain comeson and is supported by the hollow standard, which being cast with the… … Arranged to carry a shaft under the footrpath, or an upright shaft to the floor above. In soine ferry-boats and machines, horses are placed on a revolving platform, which passes backwardunder the feet whenever the horse exerts his strength in drawing against a fixed resistance, so that thehorse…
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