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Definition of Fulcrums
1. fulcrum [n] - See also: fulcrum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fulcrums
Literary usage of Fulcrums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Design and Construction of Cams by Charles Follansbee Smith, Frederick Arthur Halsey (1906)
"CHAPTER XIII THE LOCATION OF LEVER fulcrums FOR FACE CAMS ' I AM much surprised
at the advocacy of a location for the fulcrum of the lever for a face cam ..."
2. The Mechanical Euclid: Containing the Elements of Mechanics and Hydrostatics by William Whewell (1838)
"If two equal weights be supported upon aJ straight lever on two fulcrums at equal
distances from the weights, the pressures upon the two fulcrums are ..."
3. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1818)
"Did it rest on a solid body of cast-iron or masonry at the fulcrums, instead of
being suspended from them, that part of the road being fixed would become a ..."
4. On Some Principles of Seismic Geology by William Herbert Hobbs, Eduard Süss, Fernand Montessus de Ballore (1907)
"of the area we have called the line of no vertical stress1), which may be looked
upon as a line of fulcrums from which the moments of load must be computed. ..."
5. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1818)
"The fulcrums, being previously fitted together where cast, may be erected with
scarcely any other scaffolding than what they themselves afford. ..."
6. The Engineer's & Mechanic's Encyclopeadia ...: The Machinery & Processes by Luke Hebert (1849)
"... furnished at each end with ratchet notches о b, which constitute the fulcrums
of the levers AA ; с is the top of the press, supported by the frames dd; ..."
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