Industry : a magazine devoted to science, engineering, and the mechanic arts, especially on the Pacific Coast (1888)
San Francisco : Industrial Pub. Co. · leaf 96
86 TANGENTIAL WATER WHEELS. in Europe. The efficiency attained was from 60 to 65 per cent., which, considering the arrangement or design indicates a careful attention to workmanship and proportions. … Fig. 14. The wheel is described as one with a single jet or chute B, con- trolled by the diagonal slide C. The numbered lines are added, no doubt, in making analysis of the water's action. The discharge is inward through buckets or vanes, not conforming, as will be seen, to what are now considered…
Industrial arts · Technology
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