A textbook on the locomotive and the air brake (1901)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, Pa., International textbook co · leaf 369
sufficient power at P to operate the first lever, the others willalso be operated, and the weight W of the third lever willbe raised. It will be noticed, also, that the force exerted by the end ofthe weight arm of the first lever is the power applied to thesecond, and the force exerted by the… … poiver P multiplied by the product of the poiver arms of all thecomponent simple levers is equal to the weight W multiplied by theproduct of the xoeight arms of all these levers. From this law the following rules may be deduced: § 17 THE NEW YORK AIR BRAKE. 49 Rule III.—The poioer P that must be…
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