st costly to build as well as that of being the largest with a full current of 30 amperes on gave 1,758 candles. water wheel ever constructed. It is at Laxey, on the These figures show that candle power is much over- Isle of JIan, where it is used to pump water in working estimated in all ca.ses.… … cost of putting in position a Pelton the lamp and its interior mechan- ism, the sides being removed for THE GREAT OVERSHOT WATER WHEEL AT LAXEY ISLE OF MAN, wheel to afford the same power as this great overshot wheel would not that purpose when the photograph be one-fiftieth of that of the earlier…
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