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" How to make a weight that cannot take up an hundred pound, and yet shall take up two hundred pound, and at the self-same distance from the centre, and so proportionably to millions of pounds. "
The Penny Mechanic, and the Chemist - Page 187
1837
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A thousand notable things, embracing a collection of scarce receipts, &c. To ...

Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...bullets of an hundred pound weight, a steeple height, and a quarter of a mile off and more, stonebowwise, admirable for fire-works and astonishing of besieged...themselves SO forcibly and dangerously surprised. .i 25. How to make a weight that cannot take up an hundred pound, and yet shall take up two hundred...
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American Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 1

1825 - 428 pages
...of an hundred pound weight a steeple height, and a quarter of a mile off, and more, slone-bowwiHe ; admirable for fire^works, and astonishing of besieged...dangerously surprised. 25. How to make a weight that cannnr take up an hundred pound, and yet shall take up two hundred pound, and at the selfsame distance...
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Mechanics Magazine, Volume 3

1825 - 486 pages
...of an hundred pound weight a steeple height, and a quarter of a mile off, and more, ftone-bowwise; admirable for fire-works, and astonishing of besieged cities, when, without warning given by noi-*e, (hey iind themselves to fnrr'lily and dangerously wirp-i>ad. 85. ; ( 'V. to make a weieht that...
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Mechanics' Magazine, and Journal of the Mechanics' Institute, Volume 1

1833 - 426 pages
...иС1атоиЛ t "A« within." ее 87 noise, they find themselves so forcibly and dangerously surprised. 26. How to make a weight that cannot take up an hundred...at the self-same distance from the centre ; and so, propor. tionably, to millions of pounds. 26. To raise weight as well and as forcibly with the drawing...
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The Life, Times and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester

Henry Dircks - 1865 - 670 pages
...below (the hill), and note well the difference." — Weld's Hist. Eoyal Society, Vol. ip 98. 25How to make a Weight that cannot take up an hundred pound, and yet fhall take up two hundred pound, and6 at the felf-fame diftance from the Centre ; and fo proportionately...
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Inventors and inventions

Henry Dircks - 1867 - 340 pages
...find themselves so forcibly and dangerously surprised. 25. A double drawing Engine for weights. — How to make a Weight that cannot take up an hundred...; and so proportionably to millions of pounds. 26. A to and fro Lever. — To raise weight as well and as forcibly with the drawing back of the Lever,...
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Inventors and Inventions

Henry Dircks - 1867 - 302 pages
...of an hundred pound weight a Steeple-height, and a quarter of a mile off and more, Stone-bow-wise, admirable for Fire-works and astonishing of besieged...themselves so forcibly and dangerously surprised. 25. A double drawing Engine for weights. — How to make a Weight that cannot take up an hundred pound,...
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