 | Alexander Blackie William Kennedy - Machinery - 1886 - 686 pages
...to meet these requirements, and then devote the rest of this chapter to its detailed consideration. A machine may be defined to be a combination of resistant...may be transformed into any special form of work. In the first place, then, a machine is a combination of bodies — a single body cannot constitute... | |
 | Domenico Tessari - Kinematics - 1890 - 158 pages
...Essai sur la philosophie des sciences, 1834. (2) II Kennedy da la seguente bellissima definizione: « A machine may be defined to be a combination of resistant...motions are completely constrained, and by means of wich the natural energies at our disposai may be transfonned into any special forra of work ». Mechanics... | |
 | Domenico Tessari - Kinematics - 1890 - 160 pages
...sciences, 1834. (2) II Kennedy da la seguente bellissima definizione: « A madrine may be defìned to be a combination of resistant bodies whose relative...motions are completely constrained, and by means of wich thè naturai energies at our disposai may be transformed into any special forni of work ». Mechanics... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - Factory laws and legislation - 1891 - 556 pages
...again different parts in manufacture. A machine, says a recent writer,- " is a combination of resistent bodies whose relative motions are completely constrained,...may be transformed into any special form of work." Now a tool is far from being this ; nor will any number of tools combined become it unless this relative... | |
 | Alexander Ziwet - Mechanics, Analytic - 1893 - 208 pages
...constrainment of the motions of the parts of a machine. Thus Professor Kennedy defines a machine as "a combination of resistant bodies whose relative...may be transformed into any special form of work." With the latter clause of this definition we are not at present concerned; it will be considered in... | |
 | Sidney H. Wells - Mechanics - 1898 - 274 pages
...investigate them. 1 The exact definition of a machine lias been given by Professor Kennedy as follows : — "A machine may be defined to be a combination of resistant...may be transformed into any special form of work." The student should remember this definition, and see how it fits in with what he will see in machines.... | |
 | National Association of Cotton Manufacturers (U.S.) - Cotton manufacture - 1898 - 476 pages
...Machinery and tools play again different parts in manufacture. A machine is a combination of resistent bodies whose relative motions are completely constrained,...may be transformed into any special form of work. Now a tool is far from being this, nor will any number of tools combined become it, unless this relative... | |
 | 1898 - 752 pages
...Machinery and tools play again different parts in manufacture. A machine is a combination of resistent bodies whose relative motions are completely constrained,...may be transformed into any special form of work. 5Jow a tool is far from being this, nor will any number of tools combined become it, unless this relative... | |
 | John Goodman - Mechanical engineering - 1899 - 624 pages
...chapter on " Framework Structures." CHAPTER V. MECHANISMS. PROFESSOR KENNEDY 1 defines a machine as " a combination of resistant bodies, whose relative...may be transformed into any special form of work." Whereas a mechanism consists of a combination of simple links, arranged so as to give the same relative... | |
 | Joseph Nisbet Le Conte - Mechanical engineering - 1902 - 364 pages
...the definition given by Professor Kennedy * as being the best, and it is as follows: "A machine is a combination of resistant bodies, whose relative motions are completely constrained, and which serve by these relative motions to transform the energies at our command into any special form... | |
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Or, a machine may be defined to be a combination of resistant bodies whose relative motions are completely constrained, and by means of which the natural energies at our disposal may be transformed into any special form of work. 
