Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 869
examples,except by a forced interpretation of the term, and instead we ought, in strictness, to employ the termhigh-breast, as better expressing the actual conditions. We have still, indeed, some wheels of a minorclass scattered over the country, and employed chiefly for agricultural purposes,… … In the higher class of wheels constructed according to this principle, and which were originally de-nominated breech-viheels, the shuttle consists of an accurately fitted sluice, usually commanded by anadjusting apparatus bearing the name of governor, which regulates the supply of water admitted…
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