. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . PtItiJii w h(_cl The Pelf on Wheel—A novel type of wheel of a very different form from the turbine hasbeen recently introduced on the Pacific Coast. It is applicable to very high heads and smallstreams of water, and has given very good results. It might be approximately described as having the outline of an undershot wheel. 900 WATER WHEELS. with the buckets of a turbine. Its general construction will be readily und
. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . PtItiJii w h(_cl The Pelf on Wheel—A novel type of wheel of a very different form from the turbine hasbeen recently introduced on the Pacific Coast. It is applicable to very high heads and smallstreams of water, and has given very good results. It might be approximately described as having the outline of an undershot wheel. 900 WATER WHEELS. with the buckets of a turbine. Its general construction will be readily understood fromFig. lo. The important feature is the peculiar construction of the bucket, which is illus-trated in section, Fig 14, and in ix-rspective. Fig. Mi. The bucket is in form of a paraboloid,and has a central wedge which splits the entering jet of water. This jet then passes to the.
Size: 1585px × 1576px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade189, booksubjectmechanicalengineering
