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 926
WATER WHEELS. 893 at the John P. King mill, at Augusta. Ga., 475 horse-power having been realized by thelast test. All this type of Jonval wheels give high results at full gate, but are somewhatdefective at part gate. … This name of Jonval is applied to wheels set with a draft tube, and at some pointon the fall, intermediate from the bottom to 28 or 30 ft. above it. -d i * The draft tube was patented in the United States by Zebulon and Amasa Parker, otLicking, 0., in 1840. It has proved of great value, by enabling…
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