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" ... a rope to the weight, and winding the rope round the axle of the wheel ; and that the power gained must be just as great as the wheel was broader than the axle was thick ; and found it to be exactly so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round the... "
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen - Page 292
edited by - 1853
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 49

Books - 1774 - 690 pages
...to a rope put round the wheel, and another to the rope that coiled round the axle. So that, in thefe two machines, it appeared very plain, that their advantage was as great as the fpace gone through by the working power exceeded the fpace gone through by the weight. And this property...
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the monthly review

Several Hands - 1774 - 622 pages
...to a rope put round the wheel, and another to the rope that coiled round the axle. So that, in thefe two maChines, it appeared very plain, that their advantage was as great as the fpace gone through by the working power exceeded the fpace gone through by the weight. And this property...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben ..., Volume 9

Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round the wheel, and another to the rope that coiled round the axle, so that in these two machines it appeared...great as the space gone through by the working power exceeding the space gone through by the weight; and this property, I thought, must take place ma wedge...
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Autobiography: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 6

Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round the wheel, and another to the rope that coiled round the axle. So that> in these two machines, it appeared...cleaving wood ; but then I happened not to think of the screw. By means of a turning lathe which my father had, and sometimes used, and a little knife,...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 9

Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...through by the working power exceeding the space gone through by the weight ; and this property, I thought, must take place in a wedge for cleaving wood, but then I happened not to think of the screw. I then wrote a short account of the machines, and sketched out figures of them with a pen,...
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Journal of a Voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia

George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round the wheel, and another to the rope that coiled round the axle. So that, in these two machines, it appeared very plain, that their advantige was as great, as the space gone through by the working power exceeded the space gone through...
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Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics ...

James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round the wheel, and another to the rope that coiled round the axle. So that in, these two machines, it appeared...cleaving wood ; but then, I happened not to think of the screw. — By means of a turning lathe which my father had, and sometimes used, and a little knife,...
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Hours of Thought

William M'Combie - Conduct of life - 1839 - 264 pages
...so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round the wheel, and another to the rope that coiled round the axle. So that, in these two machines, it appeared...cleaving wood : but then I happened not to think of the screw. By means of a turning lathe which my father had, and sometimes used, and a little knife,...
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Instructive Extracts, Comprising Religious and Moral Instruction, Natural ...

1843 - 350 pages
...so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round the wheel, and another to the rope that coiled round the axle ; so that, in these two machines, it appeared...advantage was as great, as the space gone through by the workingpowerexceecled thespace gone through by the weight ; and this property, I also thought, must...
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The R.I. Schoolmaster, Volume 7

Education - 1861 - 526 pages
...exactly so, by hanging one weight to a rope round the wheel and another to the rope that coiled round the axle. So that, in these two machines, it appeared...cleaving wood ; but then I happened not to think of the screw. By means of a turning lathe which my father had, and sometimes used, and a little knife,...
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