Mechanical movements, powers and devices; a treatise describing mechanical movements and devices used in constructive and operative machinery and the mechanical arts, being practically a mechanical dictionary, commencing with a rudimentary description of the early known mechanical powers and detailing the various motions, appliances and inventions used in the mechanical arts to the present time, including a chapter on straight line movements, by Gardner D. Hiscox (1914)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, The Norman W. Henley publishing co. · leaf 225
8x6. STONE DRY-DOCK, intowhich vessels are floated and a wateigate closed, when, by pumping the waterout, the vessel settles upon bearingblocks, and is shored from the side walls. 817. FLOATING DRY-DOCK, in which the lifting power is derived fromthe displacement of the water in theinterior of the…
Mechanical movements
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