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 866
the circumference, and changed the character of the wheel to that of low-breast. Theseterms, therefore, convey no other positive intimation respecting the size of the wheel than that its axisis below, above, or in the plane of the water level. It, however, usually suggests that the fall is low,and,… … iMrii{»inr^-~r^T5
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