The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 300
no longer hesitate to communicatethe results. In the year 1831,* my attention was attracted to this subjectduring the investigations undertaken for the purpose of ascertaiii-ng the laws of the friction and resistances of solids in motion influids such as air and water,—when, on causing discs or… … Fig. 1.—Ordinary System. * See • ibtlosophlcal TransactioQB* fjr IdSJ. 34* 200 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. [September, from the interiiir ])art of tlie rectanj^le, so as to approximate tothe form of a diicks-foot, the rcsistani^e, wliether throiij^h air orwater, was the same—or, in…
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