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 955
king the third side of the water-passage, and the under sidesof the projections inclining downward as they approach thewheel make the fourth side, thus completing it of a form whichthe manufacturers claim offers the least resistance to the water.At a competitive test of water-wheels conducted at… … WATER-WHEELS, TURBINE. 921 Tfie American Turbine, manufactured by Messrs. Stout, Mills & Temple of Dayton, Ohio, is repre-sented in Figs. 4258, 4259, and 4260. Fig. 4258 shows the wheel only; Fig. 4259, the case; andFig. 4260 is a plan view of the wheel and gates. The wheels and cases are made…
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