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Graphical Calculation of Mine Hoisting Machines

N. S. Lenz
1922 SovietRxiv: ru-192201.07330

This paper develops and applies a graphical and analytical method for calculating mine hoisting machines and comparing alternative hoisting systems. After surveying cylindrical and conical drums, bobbins, Koepe pulleys, and less common arrangements, it sets common output, depth, load, rope, and spee…

Materials on the Testing of Building Stones of Western Siberia: Based on Data from the Mechanical Laboratory of the Tomsk Technological Institute

I. I. Bobarykov
1922 SovietRxiv: ru-192201.07327

This paper presents results from more than fifteen years of mechanical testing of Western Siberian building stones at the Mechanical Laboratory of the Tomsk Technological Institute, motivated by the growing need for reliable local stone materials for railways, roads, paving, and other construction. …

Einstein’s General Principle of Relativity

V. Frederiks
1921 SovietRxiv: ru-192101.82746

Owing to its brevity, the present article cannot lay claim to even a remotely exhaustive explanation of Einstein’s theory. Its aim is to elucidate Einstein’s principal fundamental propositions and to apply them to the solution of two or three comparatively simple questions, such as, for example, the…