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vibrating round two fixed points a a, placed laterally opposite each other, in the middle 

 of the space xy,fig, 1287. 

 c is a piece of iron with a peculiar curvature, seen in front, fig. 1287, and in profile, 



1287 



figs. 1288 and 1289. It is fixed on one side upon the upper cross-bar of the frame B, 

 and on the other, to the intermediate cross-bar b of the same frame, where it shows an 

 inclined curvilinear space c, terminated below by a semicircle, 



