Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
semost extensively employed are illustrated and briefly described. Though various reciprocating and rotary water-engines, similar tosteam-engines, have been used, the most simple and common way ofapplying tlie fall of water is by means of various kinds of wheels, calledwater-ioheeh; which may be… … TF, Avhich are pitched toward tlie stream, and hold the water untilthey reach the position F. where they begin to discharge. This is themost powerful of all the water-wheels of similar construction, and ismoved principally by the gravity, and slightly by the momentum, ofthe water. L is a gate for…
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