 | Henry Kater, Dionysius Lardner - Mechanics - 1830 - 602 pages
...divides. This is the case when pins, bolta, or nails are used for binding the parts of struo r 4 wares together ; in which case, were it not for the friction,...indispensable to its practical utility. The power, as has already been stated, generally acts by successive blows, and is therefore subject to constant... | |
 | Henry Kater, Dionysius Lardner - Mechanics - 1831 - 390 pages
...its surface and the substance which it divides Tliis is the case when pins, bolts or nails are used for binding the parts of structures together ; in...indispensable to its practical utility. The power, as has already been stated, generally acts- by successive blow?, and is therefore subject to constant... | |
 | 1831 - 358 pages
...its surface and the substance which it divides. This is the case when pins, bolts or nails are used for binding the parts of structures together ; in...indispensable to its practical utility. The power, as has already been stated, generally acts by successive blows, and is therefore subject to constant... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1837 - 374 pages
...its surface and the substance which it divides. This is the case when pins, bolts, or nails, are used for binding the parts of structures together ; in...acts by successive blows, and is therefore subject to constant intermission, and but for the friction, the wedge would recoil between the intervals of the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1838 - 376 pages
...its surface and the substance which it divides. This is the case when pins, bolts, or nails, are used for binding the parts of structures together; in which...acts by successive blows, and is therefore subject to constant intermission, and but for the friction, the wedge would recoil between the intervals of the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1842 - 384 pages
...What degree of acuteness is necessary ? divides. This is the case when pins, bolts, or nails, are used for binding the parts of structures together; in which...indispensable to its practical utility. The power gen. erally acts by successive blows, and is therefore subject to constant intermission, and but for... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1844 - 618 pages
...its surface and the substance which it divides. This is the case when pins, bolts, or nails, are used for binding the parts of structures together ; in...acts by successive blows, and is therefore subject to constant intermission, and but for the friction, the wedge would recoil between the intervals of the... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Science - 1846 - 580 pages
...its surface and the substance which it divides. This is the case when pins, bolts, or nails, are used for binding the parts of structures together ; in...indispensable to its practical utility. The power, as has already been stated, generally acts by successive blows, and is therefore subject to constant... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1849 - 594 pages
...its surface and the substance which it divides. This is the case when pins, bolts, or nails, are used for binding the parts of structures together ; in...and fail to produce the desired effect. Even when ihe wedge is used as a mechanical engine, the presence of friction is absolutely indispensable to its... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1851 - 804 pages
...case when pina, bolts, or nails are used for binding the parts of structures together, in which ease, were it not for the friction, they would recoil from...indispensable to its practical utility. The power, as has already been stated, generally acts by successive blows, and is therefore subject to constant... | |
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In many cases, the utility of the wedge depends on that which is entirely omitted in its theory, viz., the friction which arises between its surface and the substance which it divides. This is the case when pins, bolts, or nails, are used for binding... 
