 On this, I soon imagined that by pulling round a wheel, the weight might be raised to any height, by tying a rope to the weight, and winding the rope round the axle of the wheel ; and that the power gained must be just as great as the wheel was broader...  The popular educator - Page 233by Popular educator - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Books - 1774 - 690 pages
...be juft: as great as the wheel was broader than the axle was thick ; and found it to be exactly fo, by hanging one weight to a rope put round the wheel,...and another to the rope that coiled round the axle. So that, in thefe two machines, it appeared very plain, that their advantage was as great as the fpace... | |
 | Several Hands - 1774 - 622 pages
...be juft as great as the wheel was broader than the axle was thick ; and found it to be exactly fo, by hanging one weight to a rope put round the wheel,...and another to the rope that coiled round the axle. So that, in thefe two maChines, it appeared very plain, that their advantage was as great as the fpace... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...power gained must be just as great as the wheel was broader than the axle was thick, and found it to be exactly so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round...and another to the rope that coiled round the axle, so that in these two machines, it appeared very plain, that their advantage was as great as the space... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...gained, must be just as great as the wheel was broader than the axle was thick ; and found it to be exactly so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round...and another to the rope that coiled round the axle. So that> in these two machines, it appeared very plain, that their advantage was as great, as the space... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...gained must be just as great as the wheel was broader than the axle was thick ; and found it to be exactly so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round...and another to the rope that coiled round the axle." The child had thus, it will be observed, actually discovered two of the most important elementary truths... | |
 | George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...gained, must be just as great as the wheel was broader than the axle was thick ; and found it to be exactly so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round...and another to the rope that coiled round the axle. So that, in these two machines, it appeared very plain, that their advantige was as great, as the space... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1830 - 452 pages
...the axle was thick; and found it to be exactly so, by hanging one weight to a rope put TOL. in. 17* round the wheel, and another to the rope that coiled round the axle." The child had thus, it will be observed, actually discovered two of the most important elementary truths... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...broader than the axle was thick ; and found it to be exactly so, by hanging one weight to a rope put s3 round the wheel, and another to the rope that coiled round the axle." The child had thus, it will be observed, actually discovered two of the most important elementary truths... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...gained must be just as great as the wheel was broader than the axle was thick ; and found it to be exactly so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round...and another to the rope that coiled round the axle." The child had thus, it will be observed, actually discovered two of the most important elementary truths... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Biography - 1832 - 336 pages
...gained must be just as great as the wheel was broader than the axle was thick ; and found it to be exactly so, by hanging one weight to a rope put round...and another to the rope that coiled round the axle." The child had thus, it will be observed, actually discovered two of the most important elementary truths... | |
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