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 144
472. BARKER WHEEL.—A reaction waterwheel. The reaction of the water escaping fromthe tangential orifices at the ends of the armsunder the pressure of the water head in the hol-low shaft gives impulse to the wheel. Very lowefficiency. … 474. Section of wheel and case. 473. CURRENT MO-TOR.—A propeller revolv-ing within a case with ex-panding mouth to increasethe force of the current.A sprocket-wheel on therear end of the propellershaft with chain transmis-sion to shaft on suspen-sion frame.
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