Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- SECTION I INTRODUCTION
- SECTION II THE PRINCIPLES OF MECHANISM
- SECTION III ON PRIME MOVERS
- CHAPTER I ON THE ACCUMULATION OF WATER AS A SOURCE OF MOTIVE POWER
- CHAPTER II ON THE FLOW AND DISCHARGE OF WATER, AND THE ESTIMATION OF WATER POWER
- CHAPTER III ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATER-WHEELS
- CHAPTER IV ON THE UNDERSHOT WHEEL
- CHAPTER V ON TURBINES
- CHAPTER VI ON THE PROPERTIES OF STEAM
- CHAPTER VII VARIETIES OF STATIONARY STEAM ENGINES
- CHAPTER VIII ON BOILERS
- CHAPTER IX ON WINDMILLS
- APPENDIX Experiments upon the Efficiency of the Vortex Wheel
- MILLS AND MILLWORK
- Preface
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
- LTST OF PLATES
- SECTION IV ON MACHINERY OF TRANSMISSION
- SECTION V ON MILL ARCHITECTURE
- APPENDIX
- APPENDIX II
- INDEX
APPENDIX - Experiments upon the Efficiency of the Vortex Wheel
from SECTION III - ON PRIME MOVERS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2015
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- SECTION I INTRODUCTION
- SECTION II THE PRINCIPLES OF MECHANISM
- SECTION III ON PRIME MOVERS
- CHAPTER I ON THE ACCUMULATION OF WATER AS A SOURCE OF MOTIVE POWER
- CHAPTER II ON THE FLOW AND DISCHARGE OF WATER, AND THE ESTIMATION OF WATER POWER
- CHAPTER III ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATER-WHEELS
- CHAPTER IV ON THE UNDERSHOT WHEEL
- CHAPTER V ON TURBINES
- CHAPTER VI ON THE PROPERTIES OF STEAM
- CHAPTER VII VARIETIES OF STATIONARY STEAM ENGINES
- CHAPTER VIII ON BOILERS
- CHAPTER IX ON WINDMILLS
- APPENDIX Experiments upon the Efficiency of the Vortex Wheel
- MILLS AND MILLWORK
- Preface
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
- LTST OF PLATES
- SECTION IV ON MACHINERY OF TRANSMISSION
- SECTION V ON MILL ARCHITECTURE
- APPENDIX
- APPENDIX II
- INDEX
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- Treatise on Mills and Millwork , pp. 281 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014First published in: 1861