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 595
ference of a vertical wheel, as to receive the water from a trough placedover it in such a manner as to have the buckets on one side of the wheel always loaded,while those on the other side are empty. The weight of water on the loaded side ofthe wheel will cause it to descend ; and by this motion… … overshot water-wheel, the framing of which is of cast iron ; aaaa are the buckets. As itis of consequence to have them so formed as to retain the water on the descending sideas long as possible, much attention has been paid to their make : those in most generaluse are called elbow-buckets, because…
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