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 228
837. SILVERS MARINEGOVERNOR.—The two pairof balls are pivoted to the re-volving shaft at the centre oftheir connecting arms. Theircentrifugal tension is held andadjusted by the helical springI, and thumb-screw. The open-ing of the bails moves the sleeve, D, for controlling the valve gear. … S:^8. DEEP-SEA SOUNDING BALL.—The sounding line is held by the pivoted horns^, <^, which are thrown down when the rod passingthrough the ball touches bottom ; this releasesthe wire sling ^, that holds the ball, when the rodand line can be easily drawn up. Has beenused in four-mile depths of the…
Mechanical movements
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
