Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 42
the contrary case oftension, and are therefore somewhat lengthened as they passfrom one pole to the next. Now observe a mass first subjectedto compression, and next to tension. In bearing a pound weighta rubber cylinder is compressed and protrudes;when the weight is suspended from this cylin-der,…
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