 | Vincent Thomas Murché - Science - 1894 - 404 pages
...machines, can be grouped under six heads, and are spoken of as the mechanical powers. They are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw. The lever, the pulley, and the inclined plane are the simplest of all, and are known as primary machines.... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - Physics - 1895 - 630 pages
...convert rapid motion into slow motion; eg, a crowbar. There are six simple ma- Fl °- 70 chines, — the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw. power signifies the magnitude of the force that acts upon one part of the machine ; the weight signifies... | |
 | Vincent T. Murché - 1896 - 408 pages
...machines, can be grouped under six heads, and are spoken of as the mechanical powers. They are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw. The lever, the pulley, and the inclined plane are the simplest of all, and are known as primary machines.... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1897 - 864 pages
...other parts, and describing their habits. Give some knowledge of the principles and applications of the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw. Let the pupil study the principal races of men, their physical and mental characteristics, and their... | |
 | Business etiquette - 1897 - 392 pages
...transferring forces from their natural point of action, to another point of application. They are the "lever." the wheel and axle, the pulley, the "inclined plane," the wedge, and the screw. In reality there are only two mechanical powers, for the pulley and wheel are only assemblages of levers,... | |
 | Francis Morgan Barber - Engineering - 1900 - 174 pages
...always in use. These methods consisted in various applications of the simple mechanical powers, ie, the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge and the screw. Besides these the Romans knew of the power of torsion, or twisted rope, of shrinkage from wetting and... | |
 | John Spencer Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, Walter Scott Perry - Art - 1900 - 350 pages
...for its own sake.'' — SIR WVKE BAYLISS. Simple Machines. — There are six simple machines — the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw — which enter largely into all machinery. Familiar examples of the lever are found in the seesaw,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Annandale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1901 - 530 pages
...instruments or elements of which every machine, however complicated, must be constructed; they are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw. See those terms. Mechanics, the term originally used to denote the general principles involved in the... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - English language - 1902 - 346 pages
...He-£han'jc, \ a. Relating to mechanism Me-ihan'i-cal, / or mechanics. — Mechanical power», the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw, by means of which force is converted into motion or viceversa. Me-ehän'i-cal-lx, ad. By mechan ical... | |
 | Ernest John Andrews, Howard Newell Howland - Physics - 1903 - 466 pages
...than our own strength, as the wind, water power, steam power, ebc. There are six simple machines : the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw. Sometimes the wheel and axle is considered as a modified form of the lever, and the wedge and screw... | |
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These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw. 
