An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 593
ssure, striking the float-boards of the wheel, so as to urge tliem forward.Such is the form of the undershot wlieels still generally employed in France and otherparts of the Continent; but in England they have long been superseded l>y more effectualapplications of the water, and are very rarely… … section of an undershot wheel, as now in use ; in which a is the axis, which, if not ofmetal, should be made of hard and durable wood, of a length and size proportioned tothe size and weight of the wheel. Into each end of this axis a gudgeon or centre-pinshould be fixed, for the wheel to turn upon.…
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