The 'wheel of augmentation' machine
Does the augmentation wheel aid motion? A twin-drum machine driven by a worm
A single heading across the top asks whether the 'wheel of augmentation' aids the movements or not (text 1). The large drawing that fills the sheet shows a machine with two great parallel drum-wheels on a common horizontal shaft, driven through a worm-and-pinion gear and mounted on a boxed base. Faint show-through and further sketches lie behind the main figure but are not part of the transcription.
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Does the wheel of augmentation aid motion?
The heading poses the question directly: whether the 'wheel of augmentation' is of use to the movements or not. It frames the twin-drum machine below as a test of whether the added wheel helps or hinders.
Twin-drum machine driven by a worm and pinion
Two large drum-wheels turn side by side on one horizontal axle, geared through a worm-screw and pinion at their center. The whole rests on a solid boxed base, with the shaft projecting to a threaded terminal at the right.