Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 911
] 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 the tail-race. The following is the effect of the columii of water on the wheel. As mentioned above, the column of action… … The first part of the column operates by the same laws as in ordinary wheels, that is to say, thequantity of water multiplied by the velocity corresponding to the height of the fall. The second partof the column, that is to say, from the turbine to the lower part of the fall, would, in ordinary…
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