A system of natural philosophy, designed for the use of schools and academies (1845)
Moffat, J[ohn] M. [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, E. C. Biddle · leaf 104
in the marginalfigure below. A very ingenious contrivance for the conversion ofrectilinear into curvilinear motion, or rather for producing an ac-curate correspondence between such motions, is displayed in the How is the irregularity of wear, from the frequent meeting of thesame teeth in a wheel… … K2 MECHANICS. system of jointed bars used to connect the piston-rods of thesteam-engine and its air-pump with the great beam, whose reci-procating motion transmits the necessary force to the fly-wheeland other parts of the machine. A much clearer idea of the natureof this contrivance, termed the…
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