Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries (1910)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, The N. W. Henley publishing company · leaf 204
516. ROPEHITCHES. Showing ap-proved methodsof hitch forhoisting goods. 517. Hammockhitch. 518. Cask slingand hitch. 519. Bale slingand butt sHng onend. NAVIGATION, VESSELS, MARINE APPLIANCES, ETC. 203 … 520. KNOTS ANDSPLICES: 1. Turn used in makingup ropes. 2. End tapered for thepurpose of passing it read-ily through a loop. Tomake this, unlay the ropefor the necessary length,reducing a rope diminish-ing in diameter toward theend, which is finished byinterlacing the ends with-out cutting them, as…
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