Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 897
er risen above 50 per cent.; that is to say, about the rate of breast-wheels of the usual varieties. The expenditure of water in Fig. 3820 with the internal action, is sensibly independent of thegreater or less reaction of the wheel. In Fig. 3819, with external action, this cannot take place on…
Mechanical engineering
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