Well's natural philosophy : for the use of schools, academies and privte students, introducing the latest results of scientific discovery and research ; arranged with special reference to the practical application of physical science to the arts and the experiences of everyday life ; with three hundred and seventy-five engravings (1873)
Wells, David A · New York : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co. · leaf 163
, in somwheel ? instances, as at the cotton factories at Lowell, Mass., to up- ward of 95 per cent, of the whole force of the water. Is it possible 356. It may appear strange to those unacquainted with the to construct a action of hydraulic engines, that so much of the power exist-which will rcn-… … HYDRAULICS. 159 friction of the water against the surfiices upon which it flows, and to the fric-tion of the wlieel wliich receives the force of the current iorce is also lostbj changing the direction of the water in order to convej^ it to the machinery;iu the sudden change of velocity which the…
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