 Springs were in all likelihood applied at first to carriages, with no other view than to accommodate travellers. They have since been found to answer several important ends. They convert all percussion into mere increase of pressure — that is, the collision...  The Quarterly Journal - Página 971825Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1825 - 486 páginas
...are, however, only applicable to cattle drawing immediately at the carriage ; and the con. venience of this draft, as connected with the insertion of...injury, and the materials of the road are not broken 5 and, in surmounting obstacles, in-, stead of the whole carriage, with its load, being lifted over,... | |
 | 1825 - 428 páginas
...important ends. They convert all percussion into mere increase of pressure ; that is, the co!li-ion of two hard bodies is changed, by the interposition of one that is elastic, into ;i mere accession of weight. Thus the carriage is preserved from injury, and the materials of the road... | |
 | 1825 - 630 páginas
...found to answer several important ends. They convert all percussion into mere increase of pressurethat is, the collision of two hard bodies is changed by the interposition of one that is elastic, into mere accession of •weight. Thus the carriage is preserved from injury, and the materials of the road... | |
 | John Timbs - 1831 - 302 páginas
...Again, springs of carriages convert all percussion into mere increase of pressure: that is to say, the collision of two hard bodies is changed by the...that is elastic, into a mere accession of weight. It is probable, that under certain modifications, springs may be applied with great advantage to the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1831 - 324 páginas
...convert all percussion into mere increase of pressure : that is to say, the collision of two hard bodjes is changed by the interposition of one that is elastic, into a mere accession of weight. It is probable, that under certain modifications, springs may be applied with great advantage to the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Steam Carriages - 1832 - 352 páginas
...travellers. They have since been found to an«wer several important ends. -They convert all percursion into mere increase of pressure; that is, the collision...being lifted over, the springs allow the wheels to raise, .while the weights suspended upon them are scarcely moved from the horizontal level. So that,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1832 - 834 páginas
...travellers. They have since been found to answer several important ends. They convert all percursion into mere increase of pressure; that is, the collision...being lifted over, the springs allow the wheels to raise, while the weights suspended upon them are scarcely moved from the horizontal level. So that,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 362 páginas
...Again, springs of carriages convert all percussion into mere increase of pressure : that is to say, the collision of two hard bodies is changed by the...that is elastic, into a mere accession of weight. It is probable, that under certain modifications, springs may be applied with great advantage to the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 332 páginas
...Again, springs of carriages convert all percussion into mere increase of pressure : that is to say, the collision of two hard bodies is changed by the...that is elastic, into a mere accession of weight. It is probable, that under certain modifications, springs may be applied with great advantage to the... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 páginas
...when fully laden. There are also in Paris a number of omnibusses supported on springs in this way. travellers. They have since been found to answer several...the whole carriage with its load being lifted over them, the springs allow the wheels to rise, while the weights suspended upon them are scarcely moved... | |
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