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Definition of Dynamometers
1. dynamometer [n] - See also: dynamometer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dynamometers
Literary usage of Dynamometers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference Book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1902)
"dynamometers. dynamometers are instruments used for measuring power. ...
Traction dynamometers, used for determining the power required to pull a car or ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"They are divided into two main classes—• absorption dynamometers and transmission
... The most common form of absorption dynamometers is the Prony brake, ..."
3. A Text-book of Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering by Andrew Jamieson (1903)
"Or, he may have to arrange for a more or less constant retarding force as in the
case of absorption dynamometers when used for paying-out submarine cables ..."
4. Text-book of Mechanics by jr Louis Adolphe Martin (1912)
"dynamometers may be divided into two general classes: (a) Absorption ...
Absorption dynamometers The Prony Brake. — One form of Prony brake, Fig. ..."
5. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1913)
"dynamometers. — dynamometers for measuring power are of two distinct types, ...
For a description of rope brakes and the Alden absorption dynamometers see ..."
6. Dynamics of Machinery by Gaetano Lanza (1911)
"DYNAMICS OF MACHINERY CHAPTER I. dynamometers. dynamometers, as their name implies,
are instruments for measuring power. They may be divided into two main ..."
7. Experimental Engineering and Manual for Testing: For Engineers and for by Rolla Clinton Carpenter (1906)
"General Types of Transmission-dynamometers.* —Transmission-dynamometers are of
different types, the object in each case being to measure the power which is ..."
8. Text-book of Mechanical Engineering by Wilfrid James Lineham (1909)
"dynamometers are best used when the power given to or by a continuously - moving
... dynamometers shew the load supported with any speed of revolution, ..."
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