"Inclined plane" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... devices are, the wedge, the screw, the pulley and the inclined plane. In some form or other, one or more of these are used in every piece ...
— Practical Mechanics for Boys • J. S. Zerbe
... sometimes yellow, sometimes blue, or green. Friction or pressure produces strong electrification; thus the stones may be electrified by shaking a few together in a bag, or by the tumbling of the powdered stone-grains over each other as they roll down a short inclined plane. The stones are usually found in the primitive rocks, varying somewhat in different localities in their colour; many of the Brazilian stones, when cut as diamonds, ...
— The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones • John Mastin
... terminated by a strong circular fort guarding the harbor entrance. It cost over $5,000,000, and about one thousand convicts were employed in its construction, which took nearly six million tons of stone. The materials, quarried and laden on cars by the convicts, were sent down an inclined plane and out to the appointed place, where they were emptied into the sea. The prison of the convicts is on the east side of the island adjoining the quarries, and is almost a town of itself, having twenty-five hundred inmates. ...
— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook
... loads for twenty hours at a stretch. [Footnote: There is no "elephant gun-drill" laid down in the Imperial Regulations, but when the gun goes into action the elephant is made to kneel, and long "skids" are placed against the cradle upon which the gun rests, so as to form an inclined plane to the ground. The gun is then lifted off the cradle and down the ...
— Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute • Theo. F. Rodenbough
... cultivated land, cut down the fruit-trees, and used these to build a strong palisade around the entire city, with the determination that not a Plataean should escape. This done, they began to erect a great mound of wood, stones, and earth against the city wall, forming an inclined plane up which they proposed to rush and take the city by assault. The sides of this mound were enclosed by cross-beams of wood, so as to hold its ...
— Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
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