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THE attention of writers on Applied Mechanics should be called to the error continuously repeated in about thirty editions of the late Prof. Rankine's different works which have appeared during the last thirty years. The error is stilt reproduced in quite recent works of other writers: Prof. Ewing's article, “Steam-Engine,” in the Encyclopædia Britannica; Prof. Unwin's “Elements of Machine Design”; Prof. Alexander's “Elementary Applied Mechanics”; &c.
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DEWAR, T. Resistance of Square Bars to Torsion. Nature 38, 126 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038126d0
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