Q.What is the advantage of two discs entering into the composition of the crank instead of one? A.A double crank, such as two discs form with the crank pin, is a much steadier combination than would result if only one disc were employed with an over-hung pin.

c. 112. hath some notable examples of such counterfeit cranks, and every village almost will yield abundant testimonies amongst us; we have dummerers, Abraham men, &c.

Every one has heard of this remarkable man, who was regarded by some as a martyr, and by others as a dangerous crank.

He was a gigantic crank,an arch-Jesuit, indifferent to means so long as he could bring about his end; and he became not merely a casuist, but a dictatorial and arrogant politician.

He would call our attention silently and reach behind her when she wuz about her work and turn an imaginary crank in her back, and then in the same pantomime would jump back as if in fear of the fatal power he'd invoked, but would wickedly delight in the endless stream of talk let forth, occasionally asking a few questions, enough to keep her going.

The Tories said it was a mob of inconsequential cranks.

He was a gigantic crank,an arch-Jesuit, indifferent to means so long as he could bring about his end; and he became not merely a casuist, but a dictatorial and arrogant politician.

Among the philosophic cranks of my acquaintance in the past was a lady all the tenets of whose system I have forgotten except one.

A few months before he died he was visited by a pious crank, who out of curiosity or Christian zeal sought to know his theological views.

There was no jar, no shock, no thumping of cylinders and pounding of rapidly revolving cranks; the motion of the engine was rotary, and the propeller shafts, spinning at 2,000 revolutions per minute, made no more vibration than a windmill whirling in the breeze.

In other cases two inverted cylinders are set above the screw shaft on appropriate framing; and connecting rods attached to the ends of the piston rods turn round cranks in the screw shaft.

Sometimes, "In the dead vast and middle of the night," I used to hear sounds as if some one were turning that rusty crank on the sly.

These worthies consisted of an old man and what appeared to be his much older daughter, the two most unaccountable cranks that dame nature ever presented to my notice.

"I suppose I am an awful crank," he had laughed once, "but no models rummaging among my things for mine.

Why then so sure will I be arrested by a couple of serjeants, and fall into one of the unlucky cranks about Cheapside, called Counters.

In a screw vessel the same course may be pursued, provided the broken crank is not the one through which the force of the other engine is communicated to the screw.

A.The floats should be so governed by the central crank or eccentric, that the entering and emerging floats have a direction intermediate between a radius and a vertical line.