Mechanical movements, powers, devices and appliances; (1903)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, The N.W. Henley & co. · 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,weight of water falling per minute. … 465. OVERSHOT WATER WHEEL.— Power equals about sixt)^- per cent, of the valueof the water-fall flowing over the wheel.
Mechanical movements
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