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 326
y wetted in the water. The column A E supporting the stage A B consists of two tubes of brass, one, G, movable withinthe other, E G, so that by a rack on tlie sliding-tube G, and a pinion on the fixed tube at C, the wholeof the parts just described may be raised or lowered through given distances,… … It will be immediately perceived, from the general constniction of this instrument, that if any forcecause the cylinder t to descend, then the index h o will move forward in the direction 0 N, until such aportion of the counterpoise a u rises out of the water as is sufficient to furnish, in the…
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