The artillerist's manual, and compendium of infantry exercise

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283 ページ - In the same manner multiply all the multiplicand by the inches, or second denomination, in the multiplier) and set the result of each term one place removed to the right 'hand of those in the multiplicand.
300 ページ - MECHANICAL POWERS are certain simple instruments employed in raising greater weights, or overcoming greater resistance than could be effected by the direct application of natural strength. They are usually accounted six in number; viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
356 ページ - A cylinder is a solid figure described by the revolution of a right angled parallelogram about one of its sides, which remains fixed. XXII. The axis of a cylinder is the fixed straight line about which the parallelogram revolves.
273 ページ - To reduce fractions of different denominators to equivalent fractions, having...
298 ページ - If the vessel have a poop or half-deck, or a break in the upper deck, measure the inside mean length, breadth, and height of such part thereof as may be included within the bulkhead; multiply these three measurements together, and, dividing the product by 92.4, the quotient will be the number of tons to be added to the result as above found.
356 ページ - A sphere is a solid figure described by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which remains unmoved.
285 ページ - The root of any number, or power, is such a number, as .being multiplied into itself a certain number of times, will produce that power. Thus, 2 is the square root...
331 ページ - ... gun. — From the same table it also appears, that the time of the ball's flight is nearly as the range; the gun and elevation being the same.
180 ページ - ... it is received by the man on the other side, who hauls it through, hooking the tackle to it, both men holding up the ends of the sling. The men at the breast, and behind bring their ropes round, and make them fast to the grummets. The driver holds the horse's head, and makes fast the guys to it. The horse being previously blindfolded, the word " HOIST AWAY" is given, and he is hoisted on board.
286 ページ - When the power is expressed by several numbers, with the sign -(-or — between them, a line, or vinculum, is drawn from the top of the sign over all the parts of it ; thus, the square root of 21 — 5 is \/ 21 — 5, &c. EXTRACTION OF THE SQUARE ROOT. IT 107. To extract the square root of any number is to find a number, which, being multiplied into itself, shall produce the given number.

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