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 91
rom one point to another. It has also been styled thefunicular system, but as including a variety of modes in whichpower can be applied by. means of inflexible rods or bars, as wellas by flexible lines, to produce an equilibrium depending on the How is the double capstan, or differential axle,… … composition of forces, it might be, perhaps most properly, desig-nated the machine of oblique action. From the theory of thecomposition of forces, which has been elsewhere illustrated, it maybe assumed that a force applied in the proper direction will balanceany two forces; but if one of these be…
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