The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide

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Lea & Blanchard, 1848 - 392 ページ
 

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126 ページ - Experience confirms that this velocity of 3 feet in a second is applicable to the highest overshot wheels, as well as the lowest ; and all other parts of the work being properly adapted thereto, will produce very nearly the greatest effect possible : however, this also is certain from experience, that high wheels may deviate further from this rule, before they will lose their power, by a given aliquot part of the whole, than low ones can be admitted to do ; for a wheel of 24 feet high may move at...
179 ページ - These five machines are variously applied, in different mills, according to their construction, so as to perform every necessary movement of the grain, and meal, from one part of the mill to another, or from one machine to another, through all the various operations from the time the grain is emptied from the wagoner's bag, or from the measure on board the ship, until it be completely manufactured into flour, either superfine or of other qualities, and separated, ready for packing into barrels, for...
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17 ページ - When the prop is at one end of the lever, the power at the other, and the weight between them.
102 ページ - But in this case it is very necessary to distinguish the circumstances in which a model differs from a machine in large ; otherwise a model is more apt to lead us from the truth than towards it.

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