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 880
tion is manifestly independent of the diameter. The velocity due to tlie current of water to baused is always an ascertainable quantity, and may therefore be regarded as known. Another deter»minate element of the calculation is the number of revolutions which it is desirable the wheel shoulrfmake… … in the simplest manner possible, and witli the least quantity of intermediate geering. It is also imjiortant that the wheel have a velocity and dimensions rendering it capable of fulfilling the purpose of afly at the rate of motion which it is intended to maintain. If we put %i, to denote the…
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