Tracts on HydraulicsThomas Tredgold M. Taylor, 1836 - 219 pages |
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... Undershot Wheels PAGE 1 2 PART II . Overshot Wheels .. 33 PART III . the Construction and Effect of Windmill Sails ..... 47 II . - An Experimental Examination of the Quantity and Pro- portion of Mechanical Power necessary to be employed ...
... Undershot Wheels PAGE 1 2 PART II . Overshot Wheels .. 33 PART III . the Construction and Effect of Windmill Sails ..... 47 II . - An Experimental Examination of the Quantity and Pro- portion of Mechanical Power necessary to be employed ...
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... Undershot Water - wheels 210 CHAP . XIV . Of the Properties of the Air , as far as they relate to Hydraulic Machines . 211 CHAP . XV . - Of Siphons ... 213 CHAP . XVI . - Of Sucking Pumps 213 CHAP . XVII .-- Of Forcing Pumps CHAP ...
... Undershot Water - wheels 210 CHAP . XIV . Of the Properties of the Air , as far as they relate to Hydraulic Machines . 211 CHAP . XV . - Of Siphons ... 213 CHAP . XVI . - Of Sucking Pumps 213 CHAP . XVII .-- Of Forcing Pumps CHAP ...
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... Undershot Wheels ... Bossut's Experiments on Undershot Wheels on Overshot Wheels .... Practical Rules for Finding the Diameters of Mains and other Pipes for Water - works , & c . .... 219 14 28 45 205 AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY CONCERNING ...
... Undershot Wheels ... Bossut's Experiments on Undershot Wheels on Overshot Wheels .... Practical Rules for Finding the Diameters of Mains and other Pipes for Water - works , & c . .... 219 14 28 45 205 AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY CONCERNING ...
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... UNDERSHOT WATER WHEELS . PLATE I. Fig . 1. is a perspective view of the machine for ex- periments on water - wheels ; wherein ABCD is the lower cistern or magazine , for receiving the water , after it has quitted the wheel ; and for ...
... UNDERSHOT WATER WHEELS . PLATE I. Fig . 1. is a perspective view of the machine for ex- periments on water - wheels ; wherein ABCD is the lower cistern or magazine , for receiving the water , after it has quitted the wheel ; and for ...
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... undershot wheels will , perhaps , set some of these questions at rest , though conducted by an indirect process . The power of the water is equal to the velocity and pressure due to the effective head . The resistance , reduced to the ...
... undershot wheels will , perhaps , set some of these questions at rest , though conducted by an indirect process . The power of the water is equal to the velocity and pressure due to the effective head . The resistance , reduced to the ...
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angle aperture appears applied axis Bossut buckets Canal centre centre of gravity centrifugal force circumference collision column communication of motion conical tube consequently contracted vein cylindrical tube deductions descending discharge distance ditto double Dutch sails eddies enlarged sails equal expenditure extremity fall fluid force four cubic feet friction given gravity greater greatest half height Hence horizontal hydraulic impelling power impulse inches increase JOHN SMEATON lateral communication length less lines in diameter load machine Maxim maximum mechanic power mill minute move nearly non-elastic soft bodies number of turns observed orifice overshot wheel particles perpendicular pipe plane plane sails pressure produced proportion proposition quantity of water radius ratio reservoir resistance river River Thames scale set of experiments side square root stream striking body suppose surface theory thin plate undershot velocity vessel vibrations watermills whole wind
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Page 39 - However, as every thing has its limits, so has this: for thus much is desirable, that the water shall have somewhat greater velocity, than the circumference of the wheel, in coming thereon ; otherwise the wheel will not only be retarded by the buckets striking the water, but thereby dashing a part of it over, so much of the power is lost.
Page 61 - ... 2. The load at the maximum is nearly but somewhat less than, as the square of the velocity of the wind, the shape and position of the sails being the same.
Page 45 - ... which is equal to the difference of level between the surface of the water in the...
Page 34 - ... inches, and there impinging upon another body, would be capable of producing an equal effect by collision, as if the same cubic inch had descended through the same space with a slower motion, and produced its effects gradually ; for, in both cases, gravity acts upon an equal quantity of matter, through an equal space...
Page 41 - Experience confirms that this velocity of 3 feet in a second is applicable to the highest overshot wheels as well as the lowest ; and all other parts of the work being properly adapted thereto, will produce very nearly the greatest effect possible. However, this also is certain, from experience, that high wheels may deviate farther from this rule, before they will lose their power, by a given aliquot part of the whole, than low ones can be admitted to do : for a wheel of 24 feet high may move at...
Page 67 - The effects of sails of similar figure and position are as the square of the radius. 9. The velocity of the extremities of Dutch sails, as well as of the enlarged sails, in all their usual positions when unloaded, or even loaded to a maximum, is considerably greater than that of the wind.
Page 57 - a broader sail requires a greater angle ; and that when the sail is broader at the extremity, than near the centre, this shape is more advantageous than that of a parallelogram.* Many have imagined, that the more sail the greater the advantage, and have therefore proposed to fill up the whole area: and hy making each sail a sector of an ellipsis, according to M.
Page 76 - ... with that of a vertical one, it is manifest that the power of a vertical mill will be four times as great as that of an horizontal one, let the number of vanes be what they will. This disadvantage arises from the nature of the thing...