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 73
be used for streams up to 3 or 4 feet in depth and 40 or 50 feetMide, althoucrh streams normally of such size would have floodflows uiany times greater aiid which could not be so measured.AVhere a dam already exists in a stream, observations of the flowover such a dam will give fairly good results… … Fig. 30. section and the area of such cross-section, then tlie discharcre willbe equal to the product of these quantities. 39. Variations in Velocity. Owing to the disturbing effectof the bottom and sides of a channel, the velocity of the Avater Millnot be the same at all points in a given…
