. Cassier's magazine . -ther away and a pair of light West-ons blocks and chain-tackle inter-posed. Any tendency of the weightsto rise is then quickly compensatedand the man in charge is well awayfrom possible danger. Care is neces-sary in the use of all brakes, and nounnecessary risks should be run. Within the last «few years theFroude Water Dynamometer, origi-nally devised by the late Mr. WilliamFroude in connection with his experi-ence on the propulsion of ships, hasbeen developed upon a commercialscale by Messrs. Heenan & Froude,Ltd., of Manchester, to whom we areindebted for the illustrat
. Cassier's magazine . -ther away and a pair of light West-ons blocks and chain-tackle inter-posed. Any tendency of the weightsto rise is then quickly compensatedand the man in charge is well awayfrom possible danger. Care is neces-sary in the use of all brakes, and nounnecessary risks should be run. Within the last «few years theFroude Water Dynamometer, origi-nally devised by the late Mr. WilliamFroude in connection with his experi-ence on the propulsion of ships, hasbeen developed upon a commercialscale by Messrs. Heenan & Froude,Ltd., of Manchester, to whom we areindebted for the illustrations, and hascome into extensive use as a safe,ready and accurate instrument formeasuring the power given out byprime movers of every kind. The original idea was, no doubt,taken from the ordinary centrifugalpump, which obviously might be usedas a roughly approximate means ofmeasuring power by varying theheight of a lift, or, what would cometo the same thing, throttling the de-livery by a sluice valve, thus insert-.
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