Rudimentary Treatise on the Power of Water as Applied to Drive Flour Mills and to Give Motion to Turbines and Other Hydrostatic Engines (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Rudimentary Treatise on the Power of Water as Applied to Drive Flour Mills and to Give Motion to Turbines and Other Hydrostatic Engines

In after life his professional employment as a civil engineer frequently involved the construction of water wheels, many of them on a large scale, for drainage and irrigation, and for motive power, besides hydraulic works of various kinds.

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