 | Francis Morgan Barber - 1900 - 176 pages
...always in use. These methods consisted in various applications of the simple mechanical powers, ie, the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge and the screw. Besides these the Romans knew of the power of torsion, or twisted rope, of shrinkage... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1900 - 728 pages
...treated, as all machinery, however complicated, is merely a combination of the six elementary forms, viz.: the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wcdtjc, and the screw; and these six can be still further reduced to the lever and the inclined plane.... | |
 | John Spencer Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, Walter Scott Perry - 1900 - 350 pages
...beautiful for its own sake.'' — SIR WVKE BAYLISS. Simple Machines. — There are six simple machines — the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw — which enter largely into all machinery. Familiar examples of the lever are... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Annandale - 1901 - 530 pages
...instruments or elements of which every machine, however complicated, must be constructed; they are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw. See those terms. Mechanics, the term originally used to denote the general principles... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1902 - 346 pages
...artificer. He-£han'jc, \ a. Relating to mechanism Me-ihan'i-cal, / or mechanics. — Mechanical power», the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw, by means of which force is converted into motion or viceversa. Me-ehän'i-cal-lx,... | |
 | Ernest John Andrews, Howard Newell Howland - 1903 - 464 pages
...than our own strength, as the wind, water power, steam power, etc. There are six simple machines : the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw. Sometimes the wheel and axle is considered as a modified form of the lever, and... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1905 - 816 pages
...locomotive weighing as much as twenty tons. Machines are either simple or compound. The simple machines are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge and the screw. All compound machines are modifications of these. In reality there are only two... | |
 | Thomas J. Foster - 1905 - 698 pages
...treated, as all machinery, however complicated, is merely a combination of the six elementary forms, viz.: the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw; and these six can be still further reduced to the lever and the inclined plane.... | |
 | John Dearness - 1905 - 244 pages
...and machinery used on the farm and in the household and shop can be analyzed into six simple forms— the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge and the screw. By the Nature Study method the teacher would not start out by describing the lever,... | |
 | Henry William Bunbury - 1905 - 196 pages
...riding, of the principles of mixed mathematics. Consider, Mr. Gambado, the six mathematical powers ! the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw ; and reflect with what advantage all these may be applied to the use of Horsemanship.... | |
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These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw. 
