Elementary natural philosophy : designed for high schools and academies (1881)
Griffin, La Roy F. (La Roy Freese), 1844-1916 · Philadelphia : Sower, Potts & Co. · leaf 87
water has all stopped, the valve E falls, and the op-eration is repeated. After a short time, the water rises in theescape pipe, and flows from the end in a continuous stream. 273. This instrument will raise one-sixth of the waterpassing through it about ten metres for every metre of fallin the… … Fig. 97. 275. TheUndershotWheel,Fig.97, consists of a wheel carrying a series offloats, called buckets, attached to itsrim, which dip into the water. Thewater flows beneath the wheel, andacts by its momentum. This wheelwill utilize about thirty per cent, of theforce of the water. 78 MECHANICS OF…
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