Elements of mechanics: for the use of colleges, academies, and high schools (1859)
Peck, William G. (William Guy), 1820-1892 · New York, A. S. Barnes & Burr · leaf 110
ot explain this method of graduation. To weigh a body with the bent lever balance, place it inthe scale-pan, and note the point at which the needle comesto rest; the reading will make known the weight sought. Compound Balances. §4L Compound balances are much used in weighingheavy articles, as… … Fig. 71. placed; B C is a guardfirmly attached to theplatform; the platformis supported upon theknife-edge fulcrum E,and the piece .Z>, throughthe medium of a braceCD ; GF is a lever turn-ing about the fulcrum F,and suspended by a rod from the point L ; JOJSF is a leverhaving its fulcrum at M,…
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