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 153
In cases where the supply of water isabundant, so that waste is immaterial, good results can be ob-tained, especially with the smaller wheels, by mounting the twohalves of the vanes on separate wheels (practically dividing the ordi-nary wheel, with its vanes, into two equal portions by a vertical… … Fis- -18. Wheel Operated by Several Xozzles. WATER-POWER DEVELOPMENT 69 causes the two wheels to separate more or less, and thus some ofthe water is allowed to escape between. Several other ingeniousdevices have been developed for the purpose of accomplishing thesame end; a description of some of…
