Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 423
e dam is twelve feet. The wheel is set so thebuckets just clear the water in the tail-race—thatis the level of the water below the dam. Therunner, or real power-producing wheel, is in-closed in an iron casing provided with a dozenshutters, or gates, as they are called, around theouter edge. When I… … THE WATER-WHEEL AT MR. PATTERSON S MU^I. much water in against the buckets of the runner.The higher the head —the column of waterstanding above the wheel in the flume—the moreviolent will be the force of the water against thebuckets, and, consequently, the greater the powerexerted. The buckets of a…
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