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 9
er. €L The method adopted in the preparation of this volume isthat which the American School of Correspondence has devel-oped and employed so successfully for many years. It is not anexperiment, but has stood the severest of all tests —that ofpractical use—which has demonstrated it to be the best… … Table of Contents PART I—HYDRAULICSHydrostatics Page 1 Water at Rest and in Motion—Units of Measure—Weight of Water—Atmosplieric Iressure—Transmission of Iressure—Hydraulic Press—Pres-sure-IIead—Pressure on Ilane and Curved Surfaces—Components of Pressure—Pressure in Closed Pipes and…
