Hydraulic engineering; a practical treatise on the principles of water pressure and flow and their application to the development of water power, including the calculation, design and construction of water wheels, turbines, and other details of hydraulic power plants (1909)
American School (Chicago, Ill.), Black, Adolph, Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, 1866- · Chicago American School of Correspondence · leaf 132
stream-flow. Perhaps the largest overshot wheel in existence is that at Laxey,Isle of Man (Fig. 29), off the west coast of England. It is 72 feet6 inches in diameter, and is said to yield 150 to 200 horse-poweruseful work, which consists in draining a mine 1,200 to 1,380 feet WATER-POWER… … Fig. 29. Overshot Wheel at Laxey, Isle of Man. Diameter of wheel. 72 ft. 0 iu. Water carried up masonry tower by pressure, then flowing into buckets of the wheel. largest wheel of this type in the United States was erected at Troy,X. Y., with a diameter of G2 feet and a width of 22 feet,…
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