The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators (1849)
consequence of this arrange-ment is that each paddle board can only act in that directionwhich is most advantageous for the propulsion of the vesselwhen it arrives near the lowest point of the wheel. In by the increased economy of fuel will not be in so great a proportion as thesaving of fuel. A… … figure 67, let o be the shaft on which the common paddlewheel revolves ; the position of the paddle boards are repre-sented at a, b, c, &c.; x, t represents the water line, thecourse of the vessel being supposed to be from xto y; thearrows represent the direction in which the paddle wheel…
Steam-engines
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