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 274
vices forinterrupting the circuit. 1052. LAZY TONGS MOVEMENT. —A system of crossed levers by which theamount of a rectilinear motion is increased bythe proportional number of sections in the tongs. As a hand device it is in use as a toy, but is more useful as a reducing apparatus for a steam-engine…
Mechanical movements
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