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 861
el for Mr. James Brown, of Linwood, near Paisley, which in floodwaters, when the wheel wasloaded, every bucket acted as a water-blast, and threw the water and spray to a height of six to eightfeet above tlie orifice at which it entered. This \ras complained of as a great evil; and in order to gA[id… … aaa into tlie interior buckets b bb inside of the wheel during the time of filling; and, when workingin backwater, it presented the same facilities for its emission before even a partial vacuum could beformed in the ascending bucket when rising through the tailwater. The changes which this…
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