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 891
s, the latter projecting over the columns far enoutrhfor that purpose. The beams N also act as braces from the wheelpit wall to the curb, and are stronglvbolted at each end. K, the disc. This is of cast-iron, and is turned smooth on the upper surface, and also on its circum-ference. It is suspended… … WATER-WHEELS. 885 proper directions. They avo made of Russian plate iron, one-tenth of an inch in thickness, secured tothe disc by tenons, riveted on tlie under side. The upper corners of the guides, near the wheel, areconnected by the garniture L, \\iiich is intended to diminish the contraction of…
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