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UNDER this title a little brochure has recently appeared from the pen of the Rev. F. J. Smith, B.A., of Taunton, in which work-measuring dynamometers, or ergometers, as the author terms them, of various forms are described. Amongst these machines there are many devised by the author himself, and some of these are of considerable interest and much originality. The transmission ergometers of the type originally invented by General Morin deserve notice in particular. The following is the general principle involved in transmission ergometers:—
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"Work-Measuring Machines." By Frederick J. Smith, B.A. 32 pp. 12mo. (London: E. and F. N. Spon. 1884.)
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Work-Measuring Machines 1 . Nature 30, 220–221 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030220a0
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