Seientitic American, (SEPTEMBER 13, 1873, 166 IMPROVED TURBINE WATER WHEEL. The principal point of improvement, in the turbine wheel represented in the accompanying engravings, consists in the peculiar shaping of the buckets, through which, it is claimed, the maximum power of the water supply is… … power is applied. Thus, if a wheel could re- own extremity of the ship, or, for the sake of main stationary and still transmit the impulse, the greater head of water, each at its opposite the semicircle would be the proper curve for its buckets; but he explained its use. such not being the case,…
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