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 865
amples,c.tcept by a forced interpretation of the term, and instead we ought, in strictness, to employ the termhigh-breast, as better expressing the actual conditions. We have still, indeed, some wheels of a minorclass scattered over the country, and employed cliiefly for agricultural purposes,… … In tlie lii-lier class of wheels constructed according to this principle, and which were originally de-nominated bnech-w/ieels, the sliuttle consists of an accurately fitted sluice, usually commanded by anadjusting apparatus bearing the name oigovernor, which regulates the supply of water admitted…
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