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

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.