 | Francis Morgan Barber - Engineering - 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 from wetting and... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Mining engineering - 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.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Annandale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1901 - 530 pages
...simple 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 involved in the... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - English language - 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, ad. By mechan ical... | |
 | Ernest John Andrews, Howard Newell Howland - Physics - 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 the wedge and screw... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 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 essentially different... | |
 | Thomas J. Foster - Coal mines and mining - 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. They are termed mechanical... | |
 | Henry William Bunbury - Caricature - 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. By means of... | |
 | John Dearness - Natural history - 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, defining weight... | |
 | Silas Ellsworth Coleman - Physics - 1906 - 456 pages
...modifications and combinations of one or more of the six simple machines or mechanical powers. These are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw. The study of the simple machines will afford a review and application of much that has already been... | |
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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. 
