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 919
PADDLE, the -wheels employed in the propulsion of steamboats. Common paddle-wlieels mostly consist of iron framing, supporting paddle-boards or floats fixed at equal distances aroundthe rim, and radiating from the centre; they are placed one upon each side of the vessel, and are se-cured to a…
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