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Excerpt from Hydraulic Turbines: With a Chapter on Centrifugal Pumps The undershot water wheel was produced by confining the channel so that the water could not escape under or around the ends Of the vanes. This form Of wheel was capable Of an efficiency Of 30 per cent. And was in wide use up to about 1800. The breast wheel (fig. 2) utilized the weight of the water rather than its velocity due to the same fall with an efficiency as high as 65 per cent. It was used up to about 1850. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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