Encyclopędia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 18, Part 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... bear half of the load . fpring , as it is more and more coiled up , or unwound , by the call CRIPPLING ; and a knowledge of the circumftances which motion of the balance , acts on it with a force proportional modify it is of great ...
... bear half of the load . fpring , as it is more and more coiled up , or unwound , by the call CRIPPLING ; and a knowledge of the circumftances which motion of the balance , acts on it with a force proportional modify it is of great ...
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... bears a very fenfible proportion to its whole strength . Let AEВ ( fig . 3. ) be any portion of fuch a rope , and AC , BC be tangents to the curve into which its gravity bends it . Complete the parallelogram ACBD . It is well known that ...
... bears a very fenfible proportion to its whole strength . Let AEВ ( fig . 3. ) be any portion of fuch a rope , and AC , BC be tangents to the curve into which its gravity bends it . Complete the parallelogram ACBD . It is well known that ...
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... bear 50 with fafety . This gives 8640 for the utmoft ftrength of a square inch , which is much inferior to Muschenbroek's valuation . We may add to these , Ivory Bone Horn Whalebone Tooth of fea - calf II . BODIES MAY BE CRUSHED . know ...
... bear 50 with fafety . This gives 8640 for the utmoft ftrength of a square inch , which is much inferior to Muschenbroek's valuation . We may add to these , Ivory Bone Horn Whalebone Tooth of fea - calf II . BODIES MAY BE CRUSHED . know ...
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... bear with perfect safety 664,000 pounds , and that its extreme ftrength is 871,000 , and the fmalleft ftrength observed in any of his experiments was 460,000 . The foft bed of Givry ftone had for its smallest ftrength 187,000 , for its ...
... bear with perfect safety 664,000 pounds , and that its extreme ftrength is 871,000 , and the fmalleft ftrength observed in any of his experiments was 460,000 . The foft bed of Givry ftone had for its smallest ftrength 187,000 , for its ...
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... bear thrice as much when one of the fides is uppermost as when it is undermoft . The bar of fig . 5. no 2 . would be three times as ftong if the fide AB were upper- 80 moft and the edge DC undermoft . The strong- Hence it follows that ...
... bear thrice as much when one of the fides is uppermost as when it is undermoft . The bar of fig . 5. no 2 . would be three times as ftong if the fide AB were upper- 80 moft and the edge DC undermoft . The strong- Hence it follows that ...
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