The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 275
nd effort required to manoeuvre the small wickets will cer-tainly not he greater than is necessary to work one of the simple turningwickets generally used in lock-gates, while the quantity of water dischargedby the sluice will, with the above proportions, be about four-fold, and may,by a variation… … Fig. 1 is a plan, in which the part A is intended to represent a reservoir,lock-chambtr, &c. «,(/, shows the leaves of the wicket-gute (which issupposed to be placed lu the tide wall of a lock), both oi which i«re se-cured to the shaft s, aud are connected by means of the rods, or bars, p p.H…
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