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
upon the wheel in a larger sectionfhan the opening between the buckets. Under these circumstances the air is suddenly coudensed. andAgain reacting by its elastic force, throws back the water upon the orifice of the cistern, and thus allowsthe buckets to pass without being more tliau half tilled.… … WATER-WHEELS. 8512 J. always applicable, and presents none of those constructive objections which are so often fatal to theIntroduction of technical improvements in hydraulic machinery. This has, indeed, been acknowledgedby the almost universal adoption of the principle by those engineers capable…
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