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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

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470. BREAST WATER WHEEL.—Power equals about forty per cent, of the value ofthe water-fall flowing through the gate. Thisform should have housed buckets. … 471. FLUTTER WHEEL.—Much in use toback the log carriage of saw-mills. Efficiencyvery low. HYDRAULIC POWER AND DEVICES. 133

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