The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 364
ifices of discharge. I form the newwheel. says M. Passot, simply by placing either in the interior orexterior of a cylindrical drum, according as I want the pressure ofthe fluid to be exerted on the interior or exterior, curved vanes in thearc of a circle, such as a, h, c, d, figs. 1 and 2, then I… … While the machine is very simple, its properties are very re-markable. When the wheel turns without load or work under a givendifference of level or fall, its vanes take exactly the theoretical velo-city due to the fall. It is no longer the same when in any manner theform of the new wheel is…
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