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Excerpt from Rules and Data for the Steam-Engine, Both Stationary and Locomotive: And for Railways, Canals, and Turnpike Roads The inclined plane is a stationary instrument, along the surface of which, the weight to be raised is moved. The wedge is a movable inclined plane, used, commonly, to separate substances that are in contact with each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.