Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheeves
Literary usage of Sheeves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of by John Nicholson (1825)
"The manner in which the rope goes round, and grasps the sheeves, ... 470. a and
b two grooved sheeves, fastened upon the two upright shafts '- and d, ..."
2. The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of by John Nicholson (1825)
"The manner in which the rope goes round, and grasps the sheeves, and occasions
their contrary motion, is best seen in fig. 470. The twisting motions for ..."
3. The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of by John Nicholson (1826)
":wo grooved sheeves, fastened upon the two upright shafts le framing of the machines.
t best ... 1er in which the rope goes round, and grasps the sheeves, ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General by Nicholas Wood (1838)
"sheeves, and causing it to pass down the plane, along their peripheries ; we
diminish it, in the ratio of the diameter of the ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General by Nicholas Wood (1838)
"sheeves, and causing it to pass down the plane, along their peripheries ; we
diminish it, in the ratio of the diameter of the ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General by Nicholas Wood (1825)
"The amount of friction being always proportionate to the extent of rubbing surface,
by placing the rope upon sheeves, and causing it to pass down the plane, ..."
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