| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 778 Seiten
...to produce it. The raising of a weight, relative to the height to which it can be raised in a given time, is the most proper measure of power; or, in other words, if the weight raised is multiplied by the height to which it can be raised in a given time, the product is the measure of... | |
| John Nicholson (civil engineer.) - 1825 - 1008 Seiten
...of a weight, the relative height to which it can be raised in a given time being the actual extent; or, in other words, if the weight raised be multiplied...equal, whose products, made by such multiplication, are the same : for if a power can raise twice the weight to the same height, or the same weight to twice... | |
| Thomas Tredgold - 1836 - 288 Seiten
...to produce it. The raising of a weight, relative to the height to which it can be raised in a given time, is the most proper measure of power ; or, in other words, if the weight raised is multiplied by the height to which it can be raised in a given time, the product is the measure of... | |
| Oliver Evans - 1848 - 594 Seiten
...strength, gravity, impulse, or pressure, so as to produce motion. The raising of a weight, relative to the height to which it can be raised in a given time, is the most proper measure of power. Or, in other words, if the weight raised be multiplied by the... | |
| 1858 - 314 Seiten
...raising of a weight relative to the heightto which it can be raised, is the most proper measure if power, or in other words, if the weight raised be...given time, the product is the measure of the power raisin; it : and consequently all those powers are equal whose products made by such multiplication... | |
| Oliver Evans - 1860 - 460 Seiten
...produce motion. The raising of a weight, relative to the height to which it can be raised in a given time, is the most proper measure of power. Or, in...weight raised be multiplied by the height to which it caa be raised in a given time, the product is the measure of the power raising it; and, consequently,... | |
| Frederick Hungerford Bowman - 1882 - 352 Seiten
...equally important, and it is found that a constant relation always subsists between the weight raised and the height to which it can be raised in a given time This relationship is such that with any given expenditure of force, if we multiply the weight in jKninds... | |
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