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Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Construction of Horizontal and Vertical Water-Wheels: With Twelve Plates, Specially Designed for the Use of Operative Mechanics
As the first edition of my Treatise on the Turbine is exhausted, I have been induced, at the solicitation of numerous mill wrights and engineers, to prepare a. Second edition for the press. I have therefore, in accordance with their wishes, devoted such leisure hours as I could spare from my professional avocation to a careful examination and revision of the first impression and its supplement, introducing such improvements as a closer observation and a more matured judgment suggested. For this end I have given new rules of construction, with diagrams and additional plates, which I ¿atter myself will impart new improvements and simplify its working. The great number of tur bines that have been erected in the United Kingdom since I wrote the.
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