. Spons' dictionary of engineering, civil, mechanical, military, and naval; with technical terms in French, German, Italian, and Spanish . FEICTION. 1589. 1590 FRICTION. This curve, termed the anti-friction curve by Christian Schiele, is known to mathematicians asthe tractrix; it has been erroneously identified with the catenary. This curve was invented byChristian Huygens and received its name from a supposition that it is the curve which would bedescribed by a weight drawn on a plane by a string of a given length, the extremity of which iscarried along the directrix A B, Fig. 3082. Euler has
. Spons' dictionary of engineering, civil, mechanical, military, and naval; with technical terms in French, German, Italian, and Spanish . FEICTION. 1589. 1590 FRICTION. This curve, termed the anti-friction curve by Christian Schiele, is known to mathematicians asthe tractrix; it has been erroneously identified with the catenary. This curve was invented byChristian Huygens and received its name from a supposition that it is the curve which would bedescribed by a weight drawn on a plane by a string of a given length, the extremity of which iscarried along the directrix A B, Fig. 3082. Euler has shown that this conclusion is wrong, unless
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