Experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of wind and water to turn mills and other machines depending on a circular motion. And an experimental examination of the quantity and proportion of mechanic power necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies from a state of rest. Also new fundamental experiments upon the collision of bodies. With five plates of machines. By the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.
- Smeaton, John, 1724-1792.
- Date:
- 1796
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for I. and J. Taylor, No. 56, High-Holborn, 1796.
Physical description
vii,[1],110,[2]p.,V plates,tables : port. ; 80.
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Edition
The second edition.
References note
ESTC N3262
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.