A Compendium of Mechanics; Or, Text Book for Engineers, Mill-wrights, and Machine-makers, Founders, Smiths, &c: Containing Practical Rules and Tables Connected with the Steam Engine, Water Wheel, Pump, and Mechanics in General; Also, Examples for Each Rule, Calculated in Decimal Arithmetic ... |
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12 feet 30 feet 30 inches angle avoir axis axle beam body breadth Cast Iron centre of gravity centre of gyration centre of motion centre of percussion centrifugal force circle circumference Cube Root cubic feet cubic foot cubic inches cylinder Decametre decimal distance divide DRY MEASURE effect ellipse English troy equal EXAMPLE feet diameter feet long feet per minute find the area foot force frustum given horse power Inch Inches inches broad inches diameter isometrical length in feet lever libs Avoirdupois libs weight loaded machine mean proportional measure Mechanics momentum Myriogramme New-York Numb ounces parallel pendulum perpendicular pipe plane point of suspension pounds pressure PROBLEM pulley pump quantity of water quotient radius resistance revolutions per minute revolving segment Shafts side solid content space specific gravity Square Root Standard strength stroke suppose surface Teeth Inches tons triangle velocity water wheel weight in libs
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Page 12 - Yard, when compared with a Pendulum vibrating Seconds of Mean Time in the Latitude of London in a Vacuum at the Level of the Sea is in the proportion of Thirty-Six Inches to Thirty-Nine Inches and one thousand three hundred and ninety-three ten-thousandth Parts of an Inch...
Page 52 - MECHANICAL POWERS are certain simple instruments employed in raising greater weights, or overcoming greater resistance than could be effected by the direct application of natural strength. They are usually accounted six in number; viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Page 23 - Find also the area of the triangle, formed by the chord of the segment and the two radii of the sector. Then...
Page 27 - The least solid measure is the cubic inch, other cubes being taken from it according to the proportion in the following table, which is formed by cubing the linear proportions.
Page 68 - Strength of a Rectangular Beam of Timber, fixed at one end and loaded at the other. Rule. — Multiply the value of S...
Page 208 - Thus, in the isometrical squares, exhibited in fig. 2, distances measured on the longer diagonal, or its parallels, would be measured by the divisions on the major axis, those depending on the shorter diagonal, by the divisions on the minor axis. To describe a cylinder, lying in an isometrical direction, the circles at its extremities, should be represented by the proper isometrical ellipses, and two lines touching both, should be drawn: and in a similar way, a cone, or frustum of a cone, may be...
Page 35 - ... so that the mass compounded of the two may sink together. Weigh the denser body and the compound mass, separately, both in water, and out of it ; then find how much each loses in water, by subtracting its weight in water from its weight in air ; and subtract the less of these remainders from the greater. Then...
Page 23 - Compute the area of the whole circle : then say, as 360 is to the degrees in the arc of the sector, so is the area of the whole circle, to the area of the sector.