British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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... weight , or produce any effect , which could not be easily effected otherwise . Engines are extremely numerous ; some used in war , as the battering ram , balista , waggons , chariots , & c . others in trade and manufactures , as cranes ...
... weight , or produce any effect , which could not be easily effected otherwise . Engines are extremely numerous ; some used in war , as the battering ram , balista , waggons , chariots , & c . others in trade and manufactures , as cranes ...
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... weight L , shall hang over with the same inclination on the opposite side of the perpendicular , and consequently the end , K , will then be as much depressed as it is now elevated . The pipe , RS , has its lower end im- mersed in a ...
... weight L , shall hang over with the same inclination on the opposite side of the perpendicular , and consequently the end , K , will then be as much depressed as it is now elevated . The pipe , RS , has its lower end im- mersed in a ...
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... weight fixed at one end , passes through the great shaft below the great wheel , and always tends to push the great bolt upwards , and lock the drum to the great wheel : I , the forcing bar , which passes through the hollow axis of the ...
... weight fixed at one end , passes through the great shaft below the great wheel , and always tends to push the great bolt upwards , and lock the drum to the great wheel : I , the forcing bar , which passes through the hollow axis of the ...
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... both charged with an equal weight . EQUIMULTIPLES , in arithmetic and geometry , are numbers and quantities multiplied by one and the same number or quantity . Hence , equimultiples are always in the same ratio to each other , as EQU EQU.
... both charged with an equal weight . EQUIMULTIPLES , in arithmetic and geometry , are numbers and quantities multiplied by one and the same number or quantity . Hence , equimultiples are always in the same ratio to each other , as EQU EQU.
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... weight of three tons , half of which is considered as the regular draught . A horse of this class was exhibited as a curiosity in London in the year 1805 , no less than twenty hands in height . For the cart - horse , see Mam- malia ...
... weight of three tons , half of which is considered as the regular draught . A horse of this class was exhibited as a curiosity in London in the year 1805 , no less than twenty hands in height . For the cart - horse , see Mam- malia ...
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