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 63
is to be laid down is drawn horizontally at a certain rate. If, for instance, we were desirousof recording how the pressure varies with the time, the paper must be drawn unifonnlii, by connectingit with clock-work, or some other apparatus for giving a uniform motion. But this, however, is… … lows : the paper is wrapped round a cylindrical barrel C, which is brought back against a stop by astrong watch-spring contained in the box E F. A string passes round the pulley D, and is led awaythrough a fair-leader G to some part of the engine having a similar motion to the piston cross-head,…
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