The Ten Books on Architecture, 10.9.2

Vitruvius  translated by Joseph Gwilt

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2This being adjusted on the inner side of the nave of the wheel, let a drum-wheel be securely fixed, having one small tooth projecting beyond the face of its circumference; and in the body of the chariot let a small box be fastened, with a drum-wheel placed to revolve perpendicularly, and fastened to an axle. The latter wheel is to be equally divided, on its edge, into four hundred teeth, corresponding with the teeth of the lower drum-wheel: besides the above, the upper drum-wheel has on its side one tooth projecting out before the others.

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