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I AM obliged to Mr. Housman for pointing out a slip of expression in my review of Mr. Sharp's book. I had not confused the ratio of the I's for the ratio of the D's, but merely inadvertently used the word “stiffness” in its colloquial and more extended sense, so to include resistance to forces which would seriously bend or damage, as well as to those which would produce infinitesimal bending.
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BOYS, C. “Bicycles and Tricycles”. Nature 56, 293 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056293d0
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