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 469
the beam. Contrivances of this kind are required in other cir-cumstances of the conversion of rotatory and alternating angular motion into rectilineal motion, and theconverse; but the absolute necessity there is of guiding the path of piston in the steam-engine, hascalled forth more attention to… … ■ Fig. 3016. Given A B D a right angle: it can be demonstrated that if the end A of tlie right hne A Iaescend from A to B along the line A B, while tlie end D moves along the line B D produced, a point C inthe middle of the line will describe the circle C G. Hence, if a beam A D has one end sliding…
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