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 908
d, but not found to give full satisfaction. In these wheels thereliave been employed a series of movable divisions, by which a part of the inner periphery of the wheelis inclosed, and the whole water to be absorbed is thrown to the external periphery. This arrangementhas been most satisfactory in… … It will require only half an hour to insert these divisions, but for mstant change of s])eed or iiower.there is also the gate by which one-fifth of its power can be taken off without any considerable clianj;ein effect. Adeantayes obtained by thene wheels over other first-class wheels.—1st. In…
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