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 906
. 899 its utmost effect by the proper construction of tlie pjuides and buckets, which, together, form an annularBection. The following is the action of the water discharging through the wheels. The water, as it leaves the forebay, follows the guides of the stationary wheel, curved in a spiralform,… … .^ater de«end in a spiral direction. Tlien, by the contracted form of the buckets of the movable wheei,the water has a second action, tliat of lifting the wheel in the direction of 18° to the horizontal line andtangential to the chcumference; this second action is upou the principle of discharge of…
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