¶ Compression
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Compression:
“To make a local island of compression, with a cigar you have to load it” until it becomes a squash and then a sphere. “As a condition of the sphere for the first time, any axis is the neutral axis, in the spherical condition, it has antitude in any direction to withdraw the forces on it; it is not surprising that ball bearings become the most efficient compression member ever designed by man. I am not surprised to find more or less spherical planets in the heavens tensionally cohered, compression at its most effective.”
