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 857
thesummit of the wheel; and, in ordinary practice, those wheels reckoned as overshot, by strict deflnitiooVol. II.—54 850 WATER-WHEELS. some under the designation of high-breast wheels. One of the finest specimens of this construction yeterected is that represented in Figs. .37*78 and 3779, in… … In the construction of wheels of this class, the technical points which remain to be considered, after de-termining the diameter and breadth of the wheel from the height of fall and quantity of water furnishedby the stream, are the axle and its journals, the aims and their connections, the…
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