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 108
bar, will cause How does the compound pendulum obviate the irregularity of a clocksmovement? What other difficulties besides those already enumerated interfere withthe action of machines? What is one of the most important sources of irregularity in a ma-chine? What familiar illustration of this… … the screw to descend with such force, carry-ing the die against a circular disk of metal,as to give it the required impression at onestroke. This machine is said to have beeninvented by Nicholas Briot, mint-master(tailleur-general des monnoies) to Louis XIII.of France ; and by using it one man may…
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