Rudimentary Treatise on the Power of Water: As Applied to Drive Flour Mills, and to Give Motion to Turbines and Other Hydrostatic EnginesJ. Weale, 1853 - 148 Seiten |
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AMEN CORNER applied axis axle bottom Boulton & Watt breast-wheel buckets cast-iron cent centre Charles Tomlinson circumference Civil Engineers column of water conical constructed corn Crystal Palace cubic feet curve cylinder descending discharge driven effect equal erected experiments fall of water feet in diameter feet per minute fixed float-boards flour foot French gallons GRAMMAR gravity grinding head height horizontal hydraulic inches in diameter inclined iron Jacob's ladder lower machine machinery meal means mechanical Messrs mill miller millstones mode motion nearly notch opening overfall overshot wheel pair pinion pipe piston placed Poncelet practical pressure pressure-engine pumps quantity of water raised regulated Rennie requisite reservoir revolutions per minute revolving S. P. Woodward screw shaft sluice Smeaton speed spindle square stream stroke supply of water surface tractory turbine undershot upper stone valve velocity vertical VIRTUE BROTHERS W. D. Hamilton water-pressure engine water-wheel Westgarth wheat wheel wire
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Seite 26 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Seite 2 - Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon ; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans : for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones, and grind meal : uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
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Seite 3 - Cease your work, ye maids, ye who laboured in the mill : sleep now, and let the birds sing to the ruddy morning, for Ceres has commanded the water nymphs to perform your task ; these, obedient to her call, throw themselves on the wheel, force round the axle-tree, and by these means the heavy mill.