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A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, ancient and modern : with observations on various subjects connected with the mechanic arts: including the progressive development of the steam engine (1876)

Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York : Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 85

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rts, imparts motion to the train of wheels; but asthis force gradually diminishes as the spring unwinds, the velocity of thetrain would diminish also, if some mode of equalizing the effect of thisvarying force was not adopted : It is the fusee which does this, byreceiving the energy of the spring… … No. 21 WinUUss wiUi cog-wheel and pinloa. In another modification of the windlass, a cog-ioheel is fixed to one endof the roller, and moved by a pinion that is secured on a separate shaft, andturned by a crank, as in the figure. By proportioning the diameter of thewheel and that of the pinion, (or…

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