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 952
. 3. A diffuse or an-nular chamber surrounds the wheel, into which the water is discharged. This chamber expands out-wardly, and thus the escaping velocity of the water is reduced. A plan of the Boyden wheel isgiven in Fig. 4246. Fig. 4247 represents the modern method of its construction. A is a… … 918 WATER-WHEELS, TURBINE. necting the wheel to the vertical shaft; F, G, and G, supporting-beams ; S, the shaft; I, the sup-port for the bearings ; J, the driving-gear; and li, the apparatus for moving the gate. II. Parallel ok Downward-Flow Turbines.—Fontaines Turbine.—In turbines constructed…
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