Rudimentary Treatise on the Power of Water: As Applied to Drive Flour Mills, and to Give Motion to Turbines and Other Hydrostatic EnginesJohn Weale, 1853 - 148 Seiten |
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... passed on a small , but picturesque estate belonging to his family , on which were three corn mills - one driven by wind , and two by water . To his youthful associations with these and their tenants may in part be owing his attachment ...
... passed on a small , but picturesque estate belonging to his family , on which were three corn mills - one driven by wind , and two by water . To his youthful associations with these and their tenants may in part be owing his attachment ...
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... PASSING THROUGH NOTCH AND ORIFICE 19 RAIN GAUGE . 34 EMBANKMENT AND DIAGRAM OF PRESSURE 35 ROUE À CUVES . ELEVATION PLAN AND BUCKETS 39 ROUET VOLANT . DO . AND VANES 40 HORIZONTAL WHEEL . ( DRAWING FROM GENOA ) SECTION OF FIXED AND ...
... PASSING THROUGH NOTCH AND ORIFICE 19 RAIN GAUGE . 34 EMBANKMENT AND DIAGRAM OF PRESSURE 35 ROUE À CUVES . ELEVATION PLAN AND BUCKETS 39 ROUET VOLANT . DO . AND VANES 40 HORIZONTAL WHEEL . ( DRAWING FROM GENOA ) SECTION OF FIXED AND ...
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... passed through a hole in the upper stone , which like the nether millstone was of a flat circular form . The upper stone was fitted with a handle to drive it round , and make it revolve over the lower stone ; sometimes the upper surface ...
... passed through a hole in the upper stone , which like the nether millstone was of a flat circular form . The upper stone was fitted with a handle to drive it round , and make it revolve over the lower stone ; sometimes the upper surface ...
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... passed through the centre of the lower millstone , as the spindle does now . It turned the upper millstone by means of a cross - bar fixed in the eye or centre of the stone , whilst a current of water directed against the vanes of the ...
... passed through the centre of the lower millstone , as the spindle does now . It turned the upper millstone by means of a cross - bar fixed in the eye or centre of the stone , whilst a current of water directed against the vanes of the ...
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... passed , and a few miles lower the double range of hills is nearly lost , and the country becomes comparatively flat . " The water - wheel used in China unites with the simplicity of all Chinese mechanism great ingenuity of construction ...
... passed , and a few miles lower the double range of hills is nearly lost , and the country becomes comparatively flat . " The water - wheel used in China unites with the simplicity of all Chinese mechanism great ingenuity of construction ...
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Seite 22 - 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 x - 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.
Seite 9 - VALUING ARTIFICERS' WORKS; containing Directions for taking Dimensions, Abstracting the same, and bringing the Quantities into Bill, with Tables of Constants, and copious Memoranda for the Valuation of Labour and Materials in the respective Trades of Bricklayer and Slater, Carpenter and Joiner, Painter and Glazier, Paperhanger, &c. With 43 Plates and Woodcuts.
Seite 11 - WORKSHOP COMPANION. Comprising a great variety of the most useful Rules and Formulae in Mechanical Science, with numerous Tables of Practical Data and Calculated Results for Facilitating Mechanical Operations. By WILLIAM TEMPLETON, Author of " The Engineer's Practical Assistant, "&c., &c. Eighteenth Edition, Revised, Modernised, and considerably Enlarged by WALTER S. HUTTON, CE, Author of "The Works' Manager's Handbook," " The Practical Engineer's Handbook,
Seite 11 - Workshop Companion. THE OPERATIVE MECHANIC'S WORKSHOP COMPANION, and THE SCIENTIFIC GENTLEMAN'S PRACTICAL ASSISTANT ; comprising a great variety of the most useful Rules in Mechanical Science ; with numerous Tables of Practical Data and Calculated Results. By W. TEMPLETON, Author of "The Engineer's, Millwright's, and Machinist's Practical Assistant.
Seite x - No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge : for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Seite 9 - Containing Directions for taking Dimensions, Abstracting the same, and bringing the Quantities into Bill, with Tables of Constants for Valuation of Labour, and for the Calculation of Areas and Solidities. Originally edited by E.
Seite 147 - EMBANKING LANDS FROM THE SEA, the Practice of. Treated as a Means of Profitable Employment for Capital. With Examples and Particulars of actual Embankments, and also Practical Remarks on the Repair of old Sea Walls.
Seite 147 - Is. 105. ALGEBRA, GEOMETRY, and TRIGONOMETRY, First Mnemonical Lessons in, by the Rev. TP Kirkman. Is. Gd. 131. READY-RECKONER FOR MILLERS, FARMERS, AND MERCHANTS, showing the Value of any Quantity of Corn, with the Approximate Value of Mill-stones and Mill Work.
Seite xi - 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.