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Excerpt from Applications of the Science of Mechanics to Practical PurposesIn proceeding 8. Step farther, we find that in every machine there is a positive loss of the force applied to work it, for its motion is opposed by various re. Sistances, among which friction is the most important.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction o...

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Excerpt from Report on the Water Power, at Kingsbridge, Near the City of New-York, Belonging to the New-York Hydraulic Manufacturing and Bridge Company, 1827The momentum, or power of water, is made up, of the quantity and of the head. Where there is great head, little quantity is required, where there is little head, greater quan tity is required, to produce a given effect. My first object, therefore, was to ascertain the quantity. Of water, m...

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Excerpt from Familiar Illustrations of Natural Philosophy: Selected Principally From Daniell's Chymical PhilosophyIn adapting the work of Professor Daniell to the present object, all that was strictly chymical has been omitted, and with it the exposition of the views of Faraday in relation to the connexion of electricity with chymical afiinity. Some few alter ations have been made in the text to adapt it to the American reader, and a variety o...

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Excerpt from Outlines of Natural Philosophy, Vol. 1: Being the Heads of a Course of Lectures Delivered in Columbia College, New-YorkNo body possesses within itself the power of changing its state, whether of motion or of rest. It cannot lose motion in any di rection without communicating an equal amount to other bodies in the same direction neither can it acquire motion in any di rection, without diminishing the motion of other bodies by an eq...

Excerpt from The Saint's Duty in Evil Times: In Two Sermons Preached From Isaiah XXVI. 20Thou}? Filiéi Pf 2551-14 opens up precious and rich Ware, and fays to his bscq'fi: m6dity IS {hall not: cait out ab e Hearts tb receive, Come.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state...

Excerpt from Life of Dewitt ClintonThe Biography of Dewitt Clinton, which is now submitted to the public, was origin ally intended to have been a mere sketch, comprised within less than a third of its present extent. The subject, however, was found to present itself in so many new and important points of view, thatit appear ed probable that so meager an outline would have given but little satisfaction to the reader. In this stage of the compos...

Excerpt from Applications of the Science of Mechanics to Practical PurposesTo accommodate the direction which the 1110 ving power necessarily has, or that in which it is capable of acting to the greatest advantage, to the direction in which alone the resistance can be over come. Thus, when a man has a weight to raise.to a height, he may, instead of carrying it upward, place a fixed pulley a little above the point to which the weight 1s to be l...

Excerpt from Outlines of Natural Philosophy, Vol. 1: Being the Reads of a Course of Lectures, Delivered in Columbia College, New-YorkStill it may reasonably be doubted whether matter be infinitely di visible the more probable supposition is, that it may finally be resolved into particles perfectly hard and incapable of further division.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ww...

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Excerpt from An Informatory Vindication of a Poor, Wasted, Misrepresented Remnant of the Suffering, Anti-Popish, Anti-Prelatick, Anti-Erastian, Anti-Sectarian, True Presbyterian Church of Christ in Scotland: United Together in a General CorrespondencePoor, wafied, mifi'ep'refented Remnant of o the fuffering, anti-popifh, Anti-prela tick, Anti-erafiian', Anti-feé'tarian, true Presbyterian Church of C H RI ST in. Scot/and.About the PublisherForg...

Excerpt from The Applications of Chemistry to the Arts: Taken From the Lectures of Professor RenwickMuriatic acid was also prepared on a small scale in glass ves sels. It is at present prepared in an apparatus composed of iron cylinders, and three-necked bottles, similar in general character to that used in the manufacture of nitric acid.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ...