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 896
. … 890 ■WATER-WHEELS. horizontal, circular, and of small area in comparison with the area of the containing vessel; under theseconditions a large portion of the fluid will be put in motion, and will slowly approach the orifice duringthe etfiux, in the form of an inverted cone, of which the orifice is…
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