Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 74
a whirling action was set up in the jet, tending to distort it. In order to overcome this, i-32-inch plates were placed vertically above the orifice. These plates broke up any small eddies, and the water fell in a very quiet stream onto the plate below. The plate was placed exactly level and so… … Fig. 5. the surface of the plate, was the pressure in inches of water on the plate at the hole to which the tube was connected. The holes in the plates are lettered for convenience of reference (Fig. 5). The center hole is A. The holes along one-half of the diameter are lettered from B to P,…
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