The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 86
. It willbe observed in fig. 1, that it is not absolutely n-cessary that the grooveA, A.„ iihonld be straight; the action would be precisely the same ifthe groove were an arc of a cir le, or, which is tlie same thing, if thepoint Aj, instead of being the end of a piston rod, were the end of abeam,… … In fig. 2, a beam C D, moving about a pivot at C, one of its endi, isconnected at B with a rod, of which the end A moves, as before infig. 1, in a groove. The extent of motion of D, from E to F, is nearlyas great as that of A, and another connecting rod might be attached toD to again multiply the…
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