Calendar: 1886-1887 Page 703

applied sciences 705 Why are the separate strands in hempen rope laid in the opposite direction to that in which the strands are twisted Explain with sketches the construction of machine for laying hempen strands into rope What is an epicyclic train Two wheels and Β are so mounted as to form an epicyclic train and is dead wheel having eighty teeth while has twenty teeth Find the number of turns made by Β for each rotation of the arm 10 The pressure of gas is measured by siphon gauge the sectional area of the tube is one square inch and the water stands inches higher in the outer leg of the gauge than it does in the other What will be the excess of pres- sure of the gas above that of the atmosphere in pounds per square foot upon the inside of the street main VI -ftnStrumenal Urafomg SECOND AND THIRD YEARS Draw scale of measure miles furlongs and diagonally chains and mark on it distance of mile furlongs chains Print clearly in capital letters the words Steam crane to lift two and half tons side elevation Scott and Con Engineers London Arrange the words in four lines and pay attention to balance and neatness of arrangement Draw prism long with square base of 1" side and one diagonal of the solid vertical give plan and elevation Show plane passing through cube of edge in such way that the resulting section shall be hexagon in form Draw line 513 long and divide it into three seg- ments bearing to each other the proportions 2Ί8 57-77 55 Draw regular heptagon of side and reduce it to an equilateral triangle of two-thirds the area Place in perspective heptagonal prism of 4' edge and axis standing on one of its rectangular sides one angle Ύ