Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 152
th their radial supporting stems. They can be made of uniform thickness, with no more metal than their opera- tive functions require, and of less than half the weight of those cut from solid metal, so that, compared with the usual form of steam turbines, there would be one-fifth the number and… … Fig. 10. In the construction to be hereafter suggested, the buckets represent and constitute the whole rim of a wheel. As to wheels or disks, nearly all now in use for single-action engines are solid disks, as shown in Fig. 10, a matter much to be wondered at if we consider the strains. Not…
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