Mechanical movements, powers, devices and appliances (1901)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, N. W. Henley & company · leaf 143
478. CURRENT WHEEL WATER.LIFT.—The water buckets and arms aretroughs that carry the water to the centralhollow shaft, from the end of which it is-discharged into a trough. Used for irrigation and low-grade water supply. … 479. DRAINAGE WHEEL, used fordraining fens and lowlands. Broadbuckets on a power-driven wheel with aback or tangential slope, the wheel re-volving in a current shield. Such wheels^at proper speed, will lift a largevolume of water to a height ofI nearly half their diameter. 480. PERSIAN WHEEL.—A…
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