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Some delightful Victorian diagrams from a textbook, Elementary Mechanics, Including Hydrostatics and Pneumatics by Oliver J. Lodge, D.Sc. Lond., circa 1880.
Title: Elementary Mechanics, Including Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. Revised edition
Date: 1882
Total items: 5
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![[picture: 60.---Chinese Capstan.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Lodge-ElementaryMechanics/wm/big/60-Chinese-Capstan-q90-169x200.jpg "[picture: 60.---Chinese Capstan.]")
A pulley is often used in conjunction with a capstan, the rope passing round a pulley attached to the weight, and the mechanical advantage of the capstan is thereby doubled. Moreover, the free end of the [...]
