The history and antiquities of the parish of Lambeth, and the archiepiscopal palace .. . nted. By means of steps, the gang of prisoners ascend at one end,and when the requisite number range themselves upon thewheel, it commences its revolution. The effort, then, to everyindividual is simply that of ascending an endless flight of steps,their combined weight acting upon every successive steppingboard, precisely as a stream of water upon the float-boards of awater-wheel. a The Wheels erected at the House of Correction, at Cold Bath Fields, areeach capable of containing forty or more prisoners, an
The history and antiquities of the parish of Lambeth, and the archiepiscopal palace .. . nted. By means of steps, the gang of prisoners ascend at one end,and when the requisite number range themselves upon thewheel, it commences its revolution. The effort, then, to everyindividual is simply that of ascending an endless flight of steps,their combined weight acting upon every successive steppingboard, precisely as a stream of water upon the float-boards of awater-wheel. a The Wheels erected at the House of Correction, at Cold Bath Fields, areeach capable of containing forty or more prisoners, and the joint force of theprisoners is expended in giving motion to a regulating fly, which, by expandingof itself in proportion to the power, will keep any number of men, from twentyto three hundred and twenty, at the same degree of hard labour. /?? /*f/< 405 CXOSS . or - /A, //?/ //,/ ///, /Aw,///// ?>////, //<,,,/////,, A, , j ///r/Afr/ ff/ //,/?/?, nA/?/?j y/ /•,,,/// A,/? /A,-. Znnnxre4 b* SJ-Xaeie .{- An %F«t /// / v/ /•/•«/ //« //m _/ (•.,:*///,/,aruA/A^- rArs/>rr 7/A <sijr-cy/A^? AtvAi/ isti-Uej amruAinyAy . st. Matthews district. 405 During this operation, each prisoner gradually advances fromthe end at which he mounted towards the opposite end of thewheel, from whence the last man taking his turn descends forrest, another prisoner immediately mounting as before to fill upthe number required, without stopping the machine. The in-terval of rest may then be portioned to each man, by regulat-ing the number of those required to work the wheel with thewhole number of the gang; thus if twenty out of twenty-fourare obliged to be upon the wheel, it will give to each man,intervals of rest amounting to 12 minutes in every hour oflabour. Again, by varying the number of men upon thewheel, or the work inside the mill, so as to in
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