 | Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1815 - 632 pages
...water-wheels, multiply the diameter in feet by the width also inject, to which add the square of halt tht diameter : the cube root of the sum will be nearly equal to the diameter of the gudgeon in inches. These, of course, must be regarded as approximations. Mr. Buchanan has inferred from several experiments,... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1815 - 582 pages
...multiply the diameter in feet by the width ajiso in feet, to which add the square of half the diameler : the cube root of the sum will be nearly equal to the diameter of the gudgeon in inches. These, of course, must be regarded as approximations. Mr. Buchanan has inferred from several experiments,... | |
 | Robertson Buchanan - Machinery - 1823 - 440 pages
...diameter increased in the duplicate ratio or square of the diameter. RULE II. < For wooden water-wheels, multiply the diameter in feet by the width also in...nearly equal to the diameter of the gudgeon in inches. EXAMPLE. Suppose a wooden water-wheel 12 feet diameter and 7 feet wide, (see E in Table II of Gudgeons.)... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1826 - 606 pages
...inches, of a cast-iron gudgeon sufficiently strong to support such wheel. 2. For wooden water-wheels, multiply the diameter in feet by the width also in feet, to which add the square of half the diameter : the cube root of the sum will be nearly equal to the diameter of the gudgeon in inches.... | |
 | Robertson Buchanan - Machinery - 1841 - 582 pages
...RULE II. For wooden water-wheels, multiply the diameter in feet by the tridth also in feet, to trhich add the square of half of the diameter. The cube root of the sum witt be nearly equal to the diameter of the gudgeon in inches. EXAMPLE. 12 x 7 = 84 The square of 6... | |
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RULE II. < For wooden water-wheels, multiply the diameter in feet by the width also in feet, to which add the square of half of the diameter. The cube root of the sum will be nearly equal to the diameter of the gudgeon in inches. 