Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 231
se.This end is then seized with a pair of pliers and pulled with con-siderable force. In being thus forced through the hole, the rodbecomes lengthened, and diminished in size. It is then passedin like manner through a smaller hole, and thus successively,until the wire is reduced to the requisite… … Kg. 208. passed the draioing-plate A B, is received on the dram C, towhich the force is applied through the cog-wlieels r p, n q (seeMg. 209). In order that a substance should read-ily yield to this mechanical action, it isevidently essential, not only that its par-ticles should have the power of…
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