Experimental engineering and manual for testing. For engineers and for students in engineering laboratories (1906)
Carpenter, Rolla C. (Rolla Clinton), 1852-1919 · New York, J. Wiley & Sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 130
s. 66. Specifications for Government Testing-machine.—The large machine in use by the. United States Government atthe Watertown Arsenal was built by Albert H. Emery. Themachine is not only of large capacity, but is extremely delicateand very accurate. A perspective view of the machine isshown in… … 102 EXPERIMENTAL ENGINEERING. [§ 6/, 1st. A machine with a capacity in tension or compressionof 800,000 pounds, with a delicacy sufficient to accurately reg-ister the stress required to break a single horse-hair. 2d. The machine should have the capacity of seizing andgiving the necessary strains,…
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