Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 900
890 WATER-WHEELS. horizontal, circular, and of small area in comparison with the area of the containing vessel; under theseconditions a large portion of the fluid will be put in motion, and will slowly approach the orifice duringthe efflux, in the form of an inverted cone, of which the orifice is…
Mechanical engineering
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