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The Serpent Spring

Nature volume 175, pages 766–767 (1955)Cite this article

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IN the course of investigations concerned with the problem of obtaining large elongation or rotational effects by small variations of a force, the following peculiar behaviour of spiral springs has been observed.

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  1. See also Brit. Pat. 711205, 711206.

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  1. Research Centre, The British Petroleum Co., Ltd., Kirklington Hall, Near Newark

    R. TOMASCHEK

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TOMASCHEK, R. The Serpent Spring. Nature 175, 766–767 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175766b0

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