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 889
f later construction these numbers are reduced. DAubuissonmentions tmbines which he has examined having as few as 18 channels with from 16 to 9 guide-curves.Jariez gives the following rule for the number t^Divide the interior circumference by the heiglit rf, and thequotient number which results is… … n third of it will be the number of these fixed compartments. It is, however, easy to perceive that thi?rule must only be a distant approximation ; but even an approximation is better than no rule wheretheory seems insufficient to determine the question. The number, according to Prof. Riihlman,…
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