Mechanical movements, powers and devices; a treatise describing mechanical movements and devices used in construcive and operative mechinery and the mechanical arts, being practically a mechanical dictionary (1917)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York : The Norman W. Henley publishing co. · leaf 270
evices 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 m use as a toy, but is more useful as a reducing apparatus for a steam-engine…
Mechanical movements
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