Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 910
e it so as to exert WATER-WHEELS. its utmost effect by the proper construction of the guides and buckets, which, together, form an annularsection. The following i< the action of the water discharging through the wheels. The water, as i: ■ forebay, follows tin. guides of the stationary wheel,… … - n, tint of lifting the wheel in the direction of ;ntial to the i i i conical pipe, and lias the effect of throw ing the ] II. . 900 WATER-WHEELS. The water discharged through this contracted space falls in a large air-tight cylinder, and descends,partially suspended by the tendency of vacuum, to…
Mechanical engineering
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