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Excerpt from Rudimentary and Elementary Principles of the Construction and on the Working of Machinery: Illustrated by Numerous Examples of Modern Machinery for Different Branches of Manufacture
But though every force may be capable of producing motion, yet we only recognise as motive power such forces as exist already in a state of motion; and to the sources of these especially, their nature and the methods adopted for their measurement as to intensity and quantity, we have now to direct our attention.
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