True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 122
3 Presently he said: This motion is made by some one turn-ing a crank, for he had noticed, when he was a boy, in turn-ing a grindstone, that the stone, in pushing the crank downand in pulling it up, moved with a different rapidity.Hence, he concluded there must be someone turning a cranksomewhere,… … ^\0DEL OP .U.S. /^an op War * •BuilT-fOR-£/XhlBiy AT- WORLDS-FAIR MODEL OF A MODERN U. S. MAN OF WAR. the machine back through the wall and passing up throughthe floor above. They quickly ran upstairs and found an oldman turning a crank, which was connected with the machineby the string. This old…
