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 472
same direction, and will therefore, instead of describingan arc about the centre/, describe the chord aaa oi that arc, parallel to the chord of the arc cc c, whichis the thing wanted. This motion and its modifications are founded on the principle that if the arc of a semicircle be madeto slide… … To exliibit this principle in a practicable form, let m « be a rigid bar, having the end n guided in ahorizontal groove, in which it can slide freely, as represented in Fig. 3027 ; and let p y be also a rigidbar jointed to the former at y, and having a fixed centre at p. Let this bar be half the…
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