 | Thomas Tredgold - Carriage and wagon making - 1825 - 220 pages
...inclination in an algebraic formula (p. 59), but here we shall give a rule in a more popular form. Rule. — To the tonnage in each direction add the weight of...fraction shewing the best inclination for the trade. Let us suppose that it has been ascertained, that for every 1000 tons of goods or minerals that will... | |
 | Thomas Tredgold - Carriage and wagon making - 1825 - 260 pages
...inclination in an algebraic formula (p. 59), but here we shall give a rule in a more popular form. Rule. — To the tonnage in each direction add the weight of...fraction shewing the best inclination for the trade. Let us suppose that it has been ascertained, that for every 1000 tons of goods or minerals that will... | |
 | Thomas Tredgold - Technology & Engineering - 1825 - 218 pages
...inclination in an algebraic formula (p. 59), but here we shall give a rule in a more popular form. Rule. — To the tonnage in each direction add the weight of...diminished by 1, the numerator, and the same quotient, with I added, the denominator of a fraction. Multiply this fraction by the fraction representing the resistance... | |
 | Joseph Mathieu Sganzin - Civil engineering - 1828 - 262 pages
...for finding this inclination. Rule.* To the tonnage in each direction add the weight of the wagons required to carry the greater tonnage, divide the...by the less, and make the quotient, diminished by one, the numerator, and the same quotient with 1 added, the denominator of a fraction. Multiply this... | |
 | James Day - Railroad engineering - 1848 - 240 pages
...gradients of the above description. " To the tonnage in each direction add the weight of the wagons required to carry the greater tonnage, divide the...the level rails, and the result will be the fraction showing the best inclination for the trade." — Tredgold. Per Yard. ASCENT OF PLANE. Per Chain. Per... | |
 | Anthony J. Bianculli - Locomotives - 2001 - 252 pages
...rule for determining its optimum value: To the tonnage in each direction add the weight of the wagons required to carry the greater tonnage, divide the...by the less, and make the quotient, diminished by one, the numerator, and the same quotient with 1 added, the denominator of a fraction. Multiply this... | |
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Rule. — To the tonnage in each direction add the weight of the waggons required to carry the greater tonnage, divide the greater sum by the less, and make the quotient, diminished by 1, the numerator, and the same quotient, with 1 added, the denominator... 