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Mechanical movements, powers and devices; a treatise describing mechanical movements and devices used in construcive and operative mechinery and the mechanical arts, being practically a mechanical dictionary (1917)

Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York : The Norman W. Henley publishing co. · leaf 138

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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 sixty per cent, of the valueof the water-fall flowing over the wheel.

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