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 862
made to give the buckets a definite form with reference to the action of the water uponthem on its admission; and possibly under the system now generally adopted, of introducing it belowthe summit, and under as small a head-pressure as can be obtai;ied, consistently with the volume to beused, it is… … 3 ■05 ^ K 1 °)t (o be that of quickest descent; and in no case ouglit it to descend from so great a height that its reac-tion upon the under side of the succeeding bucket shall be sensibly felt. This appears to be well illus-trated by the well-known experiments of Mr. Smeaton, to which we shaU…
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