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" ... 2. When the prop is at one end of the lever, the power at the other, and the weight between them. "
Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects, in Mechanics, Hydrostatics ... - Page 54
by James Ferguson - 1814
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A Military Dictionary: Or, Explaination of the Several Systems of Discipline ...

William Duane - Electronic books - 1810 - 774 pages
...mechanical prop is at one end of the lever, the power at the other, and the weight between them. 3d, where the prop is at one end, the weight at the other, and the power applied between them. 4th, the bended lever, which diflers from the first in form, but not in property. In the first and...
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An Easy Grammar of Natural and Experimental Philosophy: For the Use of Schools

Sir Richard Phillips - Celestial mechanics - 1811 - 196 pages
...doors turning on hinges, cutting knives which, are fixed at one end. 68. A lever of the third kind, is when the prop is at one end, the weight at the other, and the power applied between them. Here the power must exceed the weight, in the same proportion as the distance of the weight from the...
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Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art, Comprising ..., Volume 1

Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...kind of lever may be reduced oars, rudders of ships, cutting knives which are fixed at one end, &c. 3. When the prop is at one end, the weight at the other, and the power applied between them. In this lever we suppose the power and weight to change places, the power _ (p) is between the weight...
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British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 7

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...fastened at or near the point of the blade ; also in oars moving a boat, the water being the fulcrum. When the prop is at one end, the weight at the other, and the power applied between them, as in tongs, sheers, &c. The lever of the first kind is principally used for loosening large stones;...
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 7

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...fastened at or near the point of the blade ; also in oars moving a boat, the water being the fulcrum. When the prop is at one end, the weight at the other, and the power applied between them, as in tongs, sheers, &c. The lever of the first kind is principally used for loosening large stones;...
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Elements of Science and Art: Being a Familiar Introduction to ..., Volume 1

John Imison - Art - 1822 - 528 pages
...There are three kinds of levers: 1. When the fulcrum, or prop, is between the power and the weight. 2. When the prop is at one end of the lever, the power...at one end, the weight at the other, and the power between. 2. In all kinds of levers, the power is to the weight, as the distance of the weight from...
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Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics ..., Volume 1

James Ferguson - Eclipses - 1823 - 406 pages
...weight, or as the wcanta of the angles which the direction of the posers make* with the horizon— Ef. There are four kinds of levers. 1. The common sort,...property. Those of the first and second kind are often used in mechanical engines ; but there are few instances in which the third sort is used.2 -.' , ,...
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A Companion to the Scientific Dialogues; Or, The Tutor's Assistant ..., Volume 7

Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1824 - 224 pages
...end of the lever, the power at the other, and the weight between them: the third is when the fulcrum is at one end, the weight at the other, and the power between them. 31. In all kinds of levers, the power is to the weight as the distance of the weight...
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The Cabinet of Arts: Or General Instructor in Arts, Science, Trade ...

Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Agriculture - 1825 - 892 pages
...When the prop is at (me -end of the lever, the power at the other, and the weight between them ; and 3, When the prop is at one end, the weight at the other and the power between them. Of the first tsoit of lever is the common iron crow, for joying a block of stone or so,...
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A Grammar of Natural and Experimental Philosophy ...: With One Hundred ...

Sir Richard Phillips - Physics - 1826 - 254 pages
...turning on hinges, and cutting knives which are fixed af one end. 71 . A lever of the third kind is when the prop is at one end, the weight at the other, and the power applied between them. Here the power must exceed the weight in the same proportion, as the distance of the weight from the...
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