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clay 1
clear 1
clearly 1
clock 18
clock-work 2
clocks 4
clockwork 3
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19 then
19 there
19 wheel
18 clock
18 could
18 electrical
18 form
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
On the Conservation of Force

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clock

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1 I | first toothed wheel of the clock, cannot obey the pull of 2 I | the weight cannot put the clock in motion without itself 3 I | move, it could not move the clock, and its motion can only 4 I | of gravity. Hence, if the clock is to go, the weight must 5 I | supports it is run out. The clock then stops. The usual effect 6 I | But we can wind up the clock by the power of the arm, 7 I | capacity, and can again set the clock in motion.~We learn from 8 I | to perform in driving the clock is not indeed great. It 9 I | weight is detached from the clock, the pendulum swings for 10 I | mentioned. Hence, to keep the clock going, there must be a moving 11 I | work. Let us assume that a clock is driven by a weight of 12 I | runs down ten feet, the clock will go two days instead 13 I | action of the arm. In the clock we use a weight so that 14 I | directly. By winding up the clock we accumulate a store of 15 II| coiled in winding up the clock, and are uncoiled by the 16 II| uncoiled by the working of the clock. To coil up the spring we 17 II| wind it up, just as in the clock we have to overcome the 18 II| operation of stretching; the clock, on the contrary, spreads


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