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Excerpt from Treatise Relative to the Testing of Water-Wheels and Machinery: With Various Other Matters Pertaining to Hydrodynamics
That I know but little about the exact lines necessary for the production of a good turbine is not, perhaps, a legitimate excuse for the absence in this work of directions for turbine building. Because the most minute formulas to be found upon the subject have undoubtedly been published by those who knew still less about it than myself, but such formulas seem to have hindered rather than to have aided turbine improvements, for it is very certain that the best turbine builders have given little heed to such formulas, hence I have not attempted to do what I could not do well. 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.
