The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 274
e bucket, and 22 inches deep on the shroud. It hasa close-riveted sole, composed of No. 10 wire-gage iron plate, andthe buckets are ventilated from one to the other, as shown in theengraving, fig. 5. The fall is 17 feet, and the water is dischargedupon the wheel by a circular shuttle, which is… … order to afford time for the dam to fill, during the periods of rest,either during the night, or at meal-times.In this wheel, the power is taken fromeach side by two pinions working into in-ternal segments, and these again give mo-tion to shafts and wlieels, whicli communi-cate with the machinery…
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