Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 922
Risdon D.C. or double capacity wheel mentioned above.This form of bucket appears to take advantage of thecentrifugal motion given to the water by the wheel it-self, and which in the case of the (original) inward dis-charge was directly opposed to the effect of the water. Another cause of the… … 892 WATEE WHEELS. extemally has enabled them to be so formed as to deliver the water in an unbroken volume,by ajutages which contract the flow, instead of cutting it partially off. Thus, while the Boyden dropped from an efficiency of 7!) per cent, at full gate to 44percent, with lia|f water ; and…
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