Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania and American Repertory of Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures, and of American and Other Patented Inventions, 1845, Vol. 9
The wheel the breast, and the gates, are of wood, which was adopted for the sake of economy, and executed with all the care and precision desirable. The planes of the buckets are in the direction of the radius.
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