Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 865
arged upon the wheel in a larger sectionkhan the opening between the buckets. Under these circumstances the air is suddenly condensed, andagain reacting by its elastic force, throws back the water upon the orifice of the cistern, and thus allowsthe buckets to pass without being more than half… … WATER-WHEELS. 855 jo always applicable, and presents none of those constructive objections which are bo often fatal to theintroduction of technical improvements in hydraulic machinery. This has, indeed, been acknowLby the almost universal adoption of the principle by those engineers capable of…
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