Water-power; an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water . - be used in connection with theflashboards for regulating the level or for drawing it downaltogether. On the left bank of the river is a short canal, 4, whichsupplies three mills under a head of about 35 feet, dischargingdirectly into the river. This is controlled by a small gate-house. 6 is the gate-house on the right bank. It is about 40 HOL YOKE, MASS. 4IT. 412 DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL WATER-POWERS. feet wide, measured with the current, and has twelve gate-openings, each 8 feet wide by 15 feet deep, s
Water-power; an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water . - be used in connection with theflashboards for regulating the level or for drawing it downaltogether. On the left bank of the river is a short canal, 4, whichsupplies three mills under a head of about 35 feet, dischargingdirectly into the river. This is controlled by a small gate-house. 6 is the gate-house on the right bank. It is about 40 HOL YOKE, MASS. 4IT. 412 DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL WATER-POWERS. feet wide, measured with the current, and has twelve gate-openings, each 8 feet wide by 15 feet deep, separated by piersabout 19 inches thick; and also two smaller gate-openings,each 4A feet wide by \o\ feet deep. This is surmounted by abrick building in which is the machinery for working the power is furnished by a turbine at one end of the buildingwhich acts directly to turn a long horizontal shaft runninglengthwise of the building above the gates. Each of the latterhas two vertical wooden posts (stems), 10 by 13 inches in size,fastened to it, and faced on one side with iron racks. Thelong shaft operated by the turbine, in turn, by connectingbelts, causes a series of cog-wheels to revolve, the last of theseengaging and moving the racks ahead}- mentioned and withthem the gates, each of which can be moved independently ofevery other. Commonly the water stands higher outside thegates than in the canal; at such times they are not raised
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