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 139
469. SAW-MILL WATER WHEEL and flume, h -\- h represents the head of water.The total head in feet multiplied by the weightof water discharged per minute equals the foot-pounds of power. Efficiency about sixty percent. … 470. BREAST WATER WHEEL.—Powerequals about forty per cent, of the value ofthe water-fall flowing through the gate. Thisform should have housed buckets.
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