Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 158
The fixed rendering drum in rear of engine-house is 14 ft. 6 in. diameter, and the movable onefor the tail rope at foot of plane 10 ft. 3 in. diameter. As an example of the work this machinery iscapable of doing, during the busy season of 1876 it raised from the valley to the summit an averageof… … is commonly as follows : A track of heavy rails is laid on the plane, which has a grade of about 15°,and on this the cradle containing the boat ascends at the rate of five or six miles an hour. At thesummit is the motor, consisting of a water-wheel driven by the water on the upper level. The…
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