Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 611
aspeed proportioned to their respective diameters, and in opposite directions. Meantime, the clutch onthe under shaft L, being out of action, the wheels K and M will be loose upon it, and the shaft itselfwill be made to revolve idly by means of the wheel P, which geers with the pinion c upon it.… … to the wheel R, which geers with the wheel U. But this las., being loose upon the driving-shaft, andfast with the pinion d, will communicate its motion to the wheel O, which is fast upon the screwing- % X R X d spindle N, and so communicate a reduced speed in the ratio of the numbers — -. But let…
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