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Van Nostrand's engineering magazine (1879)

[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 265

An illustration from Van Nostrand's engineering magazine, 1879, leaf 265
o maximum. have been attached to the idea that a In the foregoing discussion, no account stream of water, to produce its best ef- has been taken of the resistances which fect upon a vane, or float, must glide upon arise from friction, or loss of energy from the latter in a tangential direction. The… … change in velocity of a wheel when it Place a goblet under an ordinary goose runs at a speed giving its maximum effi- neck spout, from which a clear and trans- ciency, influences but little, the work per- parent stream issues, impinging on the formed. bottom of the goblet. If the velocity of A…

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