 | John M. Moffat - Physics - 1834 - 530 pages
...a wheel on the periphery of which are fixed a number of flat boards at equal distances, and Bet at right angles to the plane of the wheel. They are called...in motion by the impact of the water on the boards a» they successively dip into it. As a wheel of this kind will revolve in any stream which furnishes... | |
 | Walter Rogers Johnson - Science - 1835 - 530 pages
...of awheel on the periphery of which are fixed a number of flat boards at equal distances, and set at right angles to the plane of the wheel. They are called...wheel of this kind will revolve in any stream which furnishes a current of sufficient power, it may be used where the descent of the water is by far too... | |
 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 308 pages
...floatboards; and the wheel is so pfaced that for its lowest point u immersed in flowing water, and is satin motion by the impact of the water on the boards as...wheel of this kind will revolve in any stream which furnishes a current of sufficient power, it may be used where the descent of the water is by far too... | |
 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 280 pages
...a wheel on the periphery of which are fixed a number of flat boards at equal distances, and set at right angles to the plane of the wheel They are called floatboards; and the wheel is so placed that for its lowest point is immersed in flowing water, and is sot in motion by the impact... | |
 | John M. Moffat, Walter Rogers Johnson - Physics - 1842 - 498 pages
...which are fixed a number of flat boards at equal distances, and set at right angles to the plane of-the wheel. They are called float-boards; and the wheel...wheel of this kind will revolve in any stream which furnishes a current of sufficient power, it may be used where the descent of the water is by far too... | |
 | John M. Moffat, Walter Rogers Johnson - Physics - 1845 - 516 pages
...a wheel on the periphery of which are fixed a number of flat boards at equal distances, and set at right angles to the plane of the wheel. They are called...wheel of this kind will revolve in any stream which furnishes a current of sufficient power, it may be used where the descent of the water is by far too... | |
 | Chemistry - 1850 - 414 pages
...a wheel on the periphery of which are fixed a number of flat boards at equal distances, and set at right angles to the plane of the wheel. They are called...wheel of this kind will revolve in any stream which furnishes a current of sufficient power, it may be used where the descent of the water is by far too... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1858 - 466 pages
...other. It is placed in such a position that its lower floats are immersed in a running stream, and is set in motion by the impact of the water on the boards as they successively dip into it. A wheel of this kind will revolve in any stream which furnishes a current of sufficient power. Fig.... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Physics - 1857 - 492 pages
...It ia placed in such a position that its lower floats are immersed in a running stream, and is Bet in motion by the impact of the water on the boards as they successively dip into it. A wheel of this kind will revolve in any stream which furnishes a current of sufficient power. Fig.... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Physics - 1859 - 468 pages
...other. It is placed in such a position that its lower floats are immersed in a running stream, and is set in motion by the impact of the water on the boards as they successively dip into it. A wheel of this kind will revolve in any stream which furnishes a current of sufficient power. Fig.... | |
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It consists, as is shown in the annexed, figure, of a wheel on the periphery of which are fixed a number of flat boards at equal distances, and set at right angles to the plane of the wheel. They are called float-boards ; and the wheel being so placed... 
