A hand book of general instruction for mechanics, containing useful rules and memoranda for practical men (1907)
Smith, Franklin Elijah, 1872- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 304
Fig. 103 A, B; by so doing a helical plane 1, 2 will be formed asshown in Fig. 104, which figure shows the inclined planeA, B, C (Fig. 103) curled around the cylinder D. Here, then, it is seen that as the incline winds around THE SIMPLE MACHINES 291 the cylinder D it assumes a spiral shape more… … Fig. 104 (Fig. 105) enveloped by a spiral projection called thethread B, which is nothing more than an inclined planewound around a solid barrel.
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