[SEL] Curved spokes ...engine rotation

[Peter Scales]

Right you are indeed.

Date of publication 1st April 1904, perchance?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com 
> [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of 
> Rob Skinner
> Sent: 24 May 2006 16:47
> To: 'The SEL email discussion list'
> Subject: RE: [SEL] Curved spokes ...engine rotation
> 
> 
> >If the flywheel runs the opposite way the outer 
> > rim will tend to wan't to fold in on itself.
> 
> Right you are, Lindsay.  Renowned engine builder Sheldon
> Brown, partner of Jeremiah Cochran, studied the issue in
> great detail.  Here is what he wrote in his Famous Flywheel
> Treatise of 1904:
> 
<huge snip of Famous Flywheel Treatise>

Regards

     Pete
-- 
Peter Scales