...SIR W H WHITE; R H SMITH; W C UNWIN; W H PRETTY; A STEIGER © Thomas Telford and ICE 1904 TURBINES LOW WATERFALLS WATER ELECTRICITY POWER PARALLEL FLOW LOSS EFFICIENCY EDDIES AXIAL PRESSURE HORSE POWER WATER WHEELS KINETICS CENTRIFUGAL FORCES GOVERNORS VELOCITY COSTS...

...A H TYACH © Thomas Telford and ICE 1900 TURBINES WATER WHEELS REACTIONS LOSS IMPULSES WATER WHEELS MOTORS MOTION BUCKETS DYNAMOS ELECTRICITY HYDROELECTRICITY Papers.] TYACK ON TURBINES. 307 (Students Paper 436.) Turbines By ARTKURHENRYTYACKS,tud.Inst. C.E. A TURBINaEs...

... be coupled up as required. There are three systemsof construction of water-wheels, which differ in themethod of transmitting the force. In thefirst system the force is transmitted by a driving-axleand spokes acting as struts ; in the second, by a toothed wheel upon the circumference, the axle and spokes...

...D K CLARK © Thomas Telford and ICE 1879 MACHINERY MACHINES MECHANICAL ENGINEERING STEAM ENGINES TESTS COMPRESSION EFFICIENCY PUMPING HEAT STEAMSHIPS SHIPS BOILERS LOCOMOTIVES WATER WHEELS TURBINES OVERSEAS EXPERIMENTS CYLINDERS 286 OTHER SELECTED PAPERS. KO. 1,602...

...SIR W G ARMSTRONG © Thomas Telford and ICE 1877 HISTORY DEVELOPMENT WATER PRESSURE MACHINERY HYDRAULIC MACHINES WATER WHEELS CRANES POWER ACCUMULATORS ENGINES HOISTS LOADING COAL SHIPS WAGONS TIPPING DOCKS GATES SWING BRIDGES DRAWBRIDGES MECHANICAL CYLINDERS...

... was that of a large water wheel, which, being of an unusual size in proportion to the stream, was able to consume a large portion of the descending water. But that portionmust not be taken as thequantity whichcould be most usefully applied tothe wheel,because it was theamount between exhaustion one dayand...

...W FAIRBAIRN INS I ITUTION CIVIL ENGINEERS. SESSION 1849. January 9, 1849. JOSHUA FIELD, President, in the Chair. NO.793.-r6 On Water-wheels with ventilatedBucketsBy William Fairbairn, M. Inst. C.E. SINCEthetime of Smeaton s experimentsin 1759, little,, or no improvement has been made...

.... RENNIEsaid, Mr. Fairbairn s experience in the construction of water-wheels, was so great, and the general remarks of the Paper were so accurate, that little could be added, and he was grieved to disagreewithanypointin it;buthecouldnotaccordwiththe statement of fewimprovementshavingbeenintroducedsincethe time...

... for the axis of one of his earliest windmills, in 1754; then in 1769, for the shaft of a water-wheel, and the main-wheel attached to it, for boring cannon at Carron ; castironafterwards was generallyadopted for axes, but as some of them, which were improperly made, gave way, the applica- tion of cast iron...

... ; JameTsaddBylackburnlE; neas Coffey; JohnGeorge Cockburn Curtisa; nd as Associates. George Nasmyth, No. 582. Descriptionofa Water-wheel constructed by Mr.W. Fairbairn, M . Inst. C. E., and erected in Lombardy. B y Shute Barrington Moody, Grad. Inst. C . E. The chief peculiarities of this wheel, arestated to consist...

... eventually in enablingit to give motion toupwards of six thousand spindles, and a number of power looms. For this purpose he designed thegeneralplan of the mill, and of the water-wheel which had been described, and had intrusted its execution, with other parts of the millwright work, to Mr. Fairbairn...

...R MALLET No. 548. An Experimental Inquiryastothe Co-efficient of La- bouring force in Overshot Water-wheels, whose diameter is equal to, or exceeds the totaldescent due to thefall ; and of Water-wheels moving in circular channels. By Robert Mallet, N. Inst. C. E. On the CO- This paper ispartly...

...J FAREY; J TAYLOR; S C HOMERSHAM; J RENNIE; R MALLET WATER WHEELS WATER WHEELS COEFFICIENTS FORCES EXPERIMENTS OVERSHOT POWER VELOCITY BUCKETS 63 greater than that of the small one ; and it will of course retain its increased advantage a t periods of increased depth of the reservoir...

...GORDON © Thomas Telford and ICE 1842 TURBINES WATER POWER MACHINES MACHINERY WATER WHEELS EFFICIENCY MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION HYDROELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY FOURNEYRON PONCELET Theprincipals were sawnoutby atemplate so as toinsurethe given taper and the accuracy of the angles...

... as commonlyused for steam engines in Cornwall, with plunger pumps, except that there are two pump-rods in each pit,and they move up and down in contrarydirections, owing to the two cranks on :the ends of the axis of the water-wheel being bended in opposite directions; by that arrangement the weight of the two...

...I DODDS © Thomas Telford and ICE 1838 WATER WHEELS IMPROVEMENT WHEELS WATER 4 third pair of wheels, behind the fire box. The author then details certain necessary conditions in the structure of Locomotives, and the means successfully adopted to obviate the rocking motion...