Water-power; an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water . CRIB WORK. 85. (9 86 CONSTRUCTIOM OF DAMS. what is common in ship-building, and by steaming the plankall difficulty would disappear. Below the inflection-point ofthe curved face there would be no harm in applying a protec-tion of iron, the wear on that portion being severe. Strips offlat iron 3 inches wide and 6 or 8 inches apart would be asgood as continuous plates. It will be noticed in Fig. 43 thatwe have adopted a curve which leaves some 16 feet of theapron straight and level. Had we placed the tang
Water-power; an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water . CRIB WORK. 85. (9 86 CONSTRUCTIOM OF DAMS. what is common in ship-building, and by steaming the plankall difficulty would disappear. Below the inflection-point ofthe curved face there would be no harm in applying a protec-tion of iron, the wear on that portion being severe. Strips offlat iron 3 inches wide and 6 or 8 inches apart would be asgood as continuous plates. It will be noticed in Fig. 43 thatwe have adopted a curve which leaves some 16 feet of theapron straight and level. Had we placed the tangent-point atthe lower extremity of the apron, we should have had a curva-ture such that the deflection of a 16-foot plank would havebeen less than 6 inches. Fig. 44 is a section of the dam of the Wauregan Mills * of,the Ouinnebaug River at Plainfield, Conn. The river at this Fig. 44,
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