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 594
-boards should be greater than that of the sheet of waterthat strikes them. 1242. Breast Jflteels are very commonly called also undershot n-heels, because thewater runs beneath the wheel ; but they differ essentially, since the principal power isderived fi-ora the weight of the water, and not from… … which is made concentric with it; the float-boards are exactly adapted to this masonry,so as to pass as near as possible to it without touching, and the side walls are, in the likemanner, adapted to the ends of the float-boards; the intention being, that as little wateras possible shall be able to…
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