Handbook of the steam-engine. Containing all the rules required for the right construction and management of engines of every class, with the easy arithmetical solution of those rules. Constituting a key to the 'Catechism of the steam-engine.' (1874)
Bourne, John · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 60
.s because the enlargement was not made proportionally, andthe diagonal af consequently does not lie in the same line as the 44 ARITHMETIC OF THE STEAM-ENGINE. diagonal ao. To make the enlargement proportional, we shouldonly have extended ab 1 inch, when we extended ad 4 inches Eiff. 3. … Such an extension is shown by the rectangle aihg; and thediagonal cf that rectangle lies in the same hue as that of theoriginal rectangle abcd. In like manner, if the elliptical figureab be enlarged by equal quantities in the line ab and in the linocd, each successive ellipse becomes more circular,…
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