"Frictionless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hoist; and, from the directness of the action, the friction is reduced to a minimum. This simple method of construction renders the hoist very compact and easily fixed; and, from the directness with which the power is conveyed from the piston to the winding drum, and the frictionless nature of the mechanism, a smaller piston suffices than in the ordinary hydraulic hoists, and a smaller quantity of water ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 286 - June 25, 1881 • Various
... subgroup to higher ones. Such a transfer of labor entails few hardships for any one, and in general it is to be said that all the movements of labor and capital which are occasioned by quantitative changes in the supply of these agents are of this comparatively painless and frictionless kind. About changes caused by new methods of production there is a different story to tell. The transformation of the world does not go on without some disquieting results, however inspiring is the remote outlook which they afford. The irregularity of the general movement, ...
— Essentials of Economic Theory - As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy • John Bates Clark
... learn how to produce it properly, will prove a valuable aid in the investigation of the nature of the forces acting in an electrostatic or magnetic field. If there is any motion which is measurable going on in the space, such a brush ought to reveal it. It is, so to speak, a beam of light, frictionless, devoid of inertia. ...
— Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High - Frequency • Nikola Tesla |
