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 895
he fluid be confined in a vessel of thin material, iind the orifice be WATER-WHEELS. simply a hole pierced in its side, the discharge in cubic feet per second will be nearly expressed by § o ^2^ H, the area of the orifice being a. If the jet from an orifice of this kind be clo5elv observed,it will… … oe taien of this circumstance to apply an ajutage to the orifice of the form assumed by the jet, tftedischarge will be found to approximate very closely to that assigned by the theoretical formnl.V This difference of discharge in the two kinds of aperture is usually ascribed to the incUned…
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