Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 335
ng. As soon as the figure A is placed upon the step D, inthe position A B, the quicksilver, by running down the in-clined tubes, swings the figure B round to C; and the center ofgravity having been thus adjusted, the whole would remainat rest but for the contrivance to be next described.… … the arc until it arrives at 0, when their increased tension hasthe effect of capsizing it, and of thus producing a momen-tum, which, by carrying its center of gravity beyond thehne of direction, causes it to descend upon the step E, whenthe quicksilver, by again flowing to the lowest part of…
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