Experimental engineering and manual for testing (1903)
Carpenter, Rolla C. (Rolla Clinton), 1852-1919 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 203
. 91, to thepower-shaft; this disk revolves between two sheets of thincopper E E joined at their outer edges, from which it is .sepa-rated by a bath of oih Outside the copper sheets on eitherside is a chamber which is connected with the water-supply atG. The water is received at G and discharged at… … 214 EXPERIMENTAL ENGINEERING. [§ 174. are rigidly connected to the outside cast-iron casing and brake-arm Py the turning effect can be balanced and measured thesame as in the ordinary Prony brake. The pressure of wateris automatically regulated by a valve V, Fig. 94, which is par-
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