Mechanical movements, powers, devices and appliances (1901)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, N. W. Henley & company · leaf 140
OVERSHOT WATER WHEEL, withsteel buckets. With the gate chute im-pinging upon the buckets an efficiency offrom seventy to seventy-five per cent, maybe obtained. h X w X .70 = horse-power. 33,000 h, Total height of water-fall from race ; w,^x weight of water falling per minute. … 465. OVERSHOT WATER WHEEL.—Power equals about sixty per cent, of the valueH of the water-fall flowing over the wheel.
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