The wonders of modern mechanism. A résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science (1896)
Cochrane, Charles Henry, 1856- · Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott · leaf 289
of smallstreams having a high head, we are filled with wonder asto why somebody did not think of this before. The Pel-ton system of water-power, to which the world is indebtedM 23 280 WONDERS OF MODERN MECHANISM. for a means of producing great forces from little streams,makes use of not only the… … THE PELTON WATER-WHEEL. on the market three thousand years ago instead of someten years since. It is simply a wheel with a ring ofbuckets on its periphery, driven by water from a pipedelivered through one or more nozzles at an angle. Yetthis wheel received the highest aAvard at the WorldsColumbian…
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