. Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering. WHEELS, PADDLE, the wheels employed in the propulsion of steamboats. Common paddle-wheels mostly consist of iron framing, supporting paddle-boards or floats fixed at equal distances aroundthe rim, and radiating from the centre; they are placed one upon each side of the vessel, and are se-cured to a strong shaft passing across it, which is turned round by the engines, each engine working acrank fixed upon it; and are placed at right angles to each other. Fig. 3920 represents the commonpaddle-wheel. 3920.

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