Mechanical movements, powers and devices; a treatise describing mechanical movements and devices used in constructive and operative machinery and the mechanical arts, being practically a mechanical dictionary, commencing with a rudimentary description of the early known mechanical powers and detailing the various motions, appliances and inventions used in the mechanical arts to the present time, including a chapter on straight line movements, by Gardner D. Hiscox (1914)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, The Norman W. Henley publishing co. · leaf 143
468. UNDERSHOT WATER WHEEL.—Power equals about forty per cent, of the valueof the water-fall flowing under the gate. … 469. SAW-MILL WATER-WHEEL and flume, h -\- h represents the head of water.The total head in feet multiplied by the weightof water discharged per minute equals the foot-pounds of power. Efficiency about sixty percent.
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