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 142
f the wheel, and downward on thedescending side. The wheel is mounted in such a way that its lov/estparts are submerged to a convenient depth, and it may be turned bythe impulse of the current impinging on radial vanes arranged aroundits circumference. The partitions scoop up a c|uantity of… … Fig. 36. Tympauimii. Fig. 37. Scoop Wheel. raised at the extremity of eaxh radius, so that its lever arm, andtherefore its resistance, increases as it is raised to a horizontal plane.This defect does not exist in the next type. 71. Scoop Wheel. As this wheel (Fig. 37) revolves, the partitionsdip…
