The builder's dictionary, or, Gentleman and architect's companion : explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice of the various branches thereof ... : also necessary problems in arithmetic, geometry, mechanics, perspective, hydraulics, and other mathematical sciences : together with the quantities proportions, and prices of all kinds of materials used in building ... (1734)
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), ca. 1700-ca. 1750, Devoto, John, fl. 1719-1752 · London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch ..., and S. Austen ... · leaf 523
, on a Standor Foot • and turned occafion-ally this way or that, by meansof a Lever. In the ether, only the Co-ver or Roof of the Machine,with the Axis and Sails turnround ^ in order to which theCover is built Turret-wife, theTurret being encompalsd witha Wooden Ring, in which is aGroove, at the… … c W I Beam is faftened a Rope,whichat the orhcr Jtxtreme of it, isfitte<l to a VVindlars or Axis iniPeritrcchio : Ihis Rope be-ing drawn throuj^h an IronHook, and tht Wmdlafs turndthe Sails will be moved round,and puc m the Direction re-quired. T/je l^beory of the Motion of aIVihd-mill^ ijchh…
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