Scribner's engineers' and mechanics' companion : comprising United States' weights and measures : mensuration of superficies and solids ... the mechanical powers ... steam and the steam engine (1848)
Scribner, J. M · New York : Huntington and Savage · leaf 184
evel-wheel, b, and this turns thehorizontal bevel-wheel, d. This last-named wheel being cop.nectedto the bevel pinion, /, by means of a horizontal shaft, will turnanother bevel-wheel, g, which is attached to a screw, i, causing thenut if to move upward. This will raise the sluice-gate, L, by means… … 182 EFFECTS OF HEAT. working ten separate power presses, or runs of stone, and that fiveof them should be suddenly stopped. The engine or wheel will thuslose half their load, and would, if the same power of steam orwater continued to he admitted, move with nearly twice their formervelocity. But the…
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