Jump to content

File:James Watt's straight-line linkage.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (2,555 × 2,135 pixels, file size: 1.29 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: James Watt's mechanisms for guiding the upper end of the piston rod of a double-acting engine (British Patent 1432, April 28, 1784). Top Figure 9, top left.
Date
Source

Figure 9.—Watt's mechanisms for guiding the upper end of the piston rod of a double-acting engine (British Patent 1432, April 28, 1784). Top left, straight-line linkage. Reproduced in Mechanical Inventions of James Watt, Volume III, James Patrick Muirhead, 1864. John Murray. Immediate source http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27106/27106-h/27106-h.htm Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt, Ferguson, Eugene S. An article in the United States National Museum Bulletin, 228, paper 27, pp. 185-230

Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1962
Author James Watt

Licensing

Public domain
Public domain
This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1929, and if not then due to lack of notice or renewal. See this page for further explanation.
United States
United States
This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.


Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

inception

12 May 2013

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current18:51, 12 May 2013Thumbnail for version as of 18:51, 12 May 20132,555 × 2,135 (1.29 MB)ThincatUser created page with UploadWizard

The following page uses this file:

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Watt%27s_straight-line_linkage.jpg"