Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 856
ny of those wheels still continue to exhibit in their constructive details a very su-perior style of workmanship, and an attention to durability which, in several Instances within the knowledge of thg writer, the lapse of a century has hardly conquered. The best specimens, no doubt, onlyremain of… … Another peculiarity, not indeed uncommon in wheels of recent construction, although generally abandoued by millwrights who make pretensions to a superior knowledge of the principles which ought togovern tlie transmission of hydraulic power, unless the conditions be dictated by extraneous…
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