Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 871
y pass the receiving point, from-diking against the descending stream, and thereby not only wasting a portion of the water by throw-ing it over the circumference of the wheel, but also diminishing the useful effect of that which passesinto the buckets by the counteraction produced on the wheel. The… … U Vi + a-i)2 //; being a coefficient depending for its value upon the particular form of the sluice-gate, but which maybe taken generally = 06-4; and g the symbol of gravity = 322. Consequently, if we substitute thenumerical values of these symbols, we shall have the simple arithmetical rule U =…
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