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 27
a, is moved anaxle, armed with a pulley, from which, by means of a rope, the motion is conveyed to the axletree o!the leading wheels. The varying proportions between the diameters of the pulleys give different de-grees of speed. The horses are to be worked always at their usual pace, whilst the new… … The importance of introducing the horses into the carriage in order to get more speed from the sur-plus of tlie acting power, had been long thought of, and the principle has been several times attemptedin England, France, and Italy, but hitherto without success. The new machine (whose inventor is…
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