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  • He did not succeed in making the wire or the magnet revolve on its own axis.
  • The first great fact to be noticed is that the planets revolve around the sun in the same direction.
  • Again, any plane w is the locus of a system of null-lines meeting in a point, called the null-point of c. If a plane revolve about a fixed straight line p in it, its ntill-point describes another straight line p, which is called the conjugate line of p. We have seen that the wrench may be replaced by two forces, one of which may act in any arbitrary line p. It is now evident that the second force must act in the conjugate line p, since every line meeting p, p is a null-line.
  • It followed that when the gun was elevated or depressed, the rack caused the pinion to revolve, and the sight was thus raised or lowered to the proper height to fulfil the conditions given above; but, as Colonel Watkin said, owing to want of level of platform and other causes it was not satisfactory.
  • - Automatic Coal Weighing Machi revolve, and as it revolves it carries the large poise along the steel - yard.
 
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