. The Country gentleman's magazine. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Great Britain. The Turbine 59 chamber, in which tiiere is a series of parti- tions leading the water, which is suppUed to the central part of the chamber, to orifices corresponding in number to the spaces be- tween the partitions. This chamber aa is fixed, but revolving round it concentrically is the outer wheel bb, also provided with a series of partitions. Into these the water is deli- vered from the central chamber aa, and passes from them through the apertures made in the outer periphery of disc. The water is thus passed in at
. The Country gentleman's magazine. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Great Britain. The Turbine 59 chamber, in which tiiere is a series of parti- tions leading the water, which is suppUed to the central part of the chamber, to orifices corresponding in number to the spaces be- tween the partitions. This chamber aa is fixed, but revolving round it concentrically is the outer wheel bb, also provided with a series of partitions. Into these the water is deli- vered from the central chamber aa, and passes from them through the apertures made in the outer periphery of disc. The water is thus passed in at the centre c of the turbine, and discharged at its circumference, giving motion in its passage to the outer disc wheel bb, to which the central driving-shaft is fixed, and which passes up through c. In another form arms, as shewn in the section in fig. 6. In cases where a supply of water may be obtained at a low level to be raised to a high-level tank by means of a water ram, and then taken from the tank to work a small turbine, the power will be obtained at probably the very cheapest rate at which it can be obtained, for the ram works night and day, and the water from the tank can be put on the turbine at a moment's notice. We feel, indeed, that in recommend- ing this mode of obtaining motive power we are doing a great practical service to those the circumstances of whose locality permit its adoption. In many instances steam power is obtained at large primary cost, which is ex- pensive to be maintained, and in the main-. of turbine, as Schiele's, the water is delivered to the outer arms, and is passed out at the centre. In Fourneyron's turbine the parti- tions are made of curved plates, as dd, ee, fig. 5. In fig. 6 we give a vertical section of Gwynne's form of turbine : aa is the bed- plate by which it is bolted to the foundation ; bb the wheel-case, supplied with water by the pipe cc; in the interior of the case the wheel </^/revolves, of which the shaft—from which pow
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