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 960
stock, may be of wood or iron, securely braced, and tight in all the joints, andshould have a firm, rigid foundation or platform, upon which the wheel is to be set. In setting thewheel, it should fit its case easily, so as not to bind when the weight of water is on it, and should betight in the… … are opened. But if there be any leakage through the flume, or at the joint of the wheel-case andfloor of the penstock, this leakage, if flowing over the weir, may first be measured with the gauge anddeducted from the whole when the wheel is running, as it is only the water actually acting on…
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