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Plate 117: Grain mill powered by river current
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Millstone can be raised and lowered by screws to accommodate change in river levels. Boards attached to beam S, which can be raised or lowered, modulate the river's force through the mill.
Mechanics: undershot…
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Plate 116: Grain mill powered by water running off an elevated pool or fountain
- 1588
The water is then pumped back to the source.
Mechanics: overshot waterwheel; horizontal crankshaft; force pump; lantern and crown gear; crank and connecting rod.
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Plate 115: Grain mill powered by channel running off an elevated pool
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Mechanics: horizontal waterwheel; spur gear and lantern.
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Plate 113: Grain mill powered by channel current
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Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; spur gear and lantern; lantern and crown gear.
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Plate 112: Cofferdam used to drain relatively low water
- 1588
Workmen use shadoofs, counterweighted buckets on poles, to drain water from the section walled off by the cofferdam in order to secure foundations for construction.
Mechanics: shadoof.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Cofferdams, Machinery, Water
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Plate 111: Cofferdam used to drain relatively high water
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Workmen use buckets to drain water from the section walled off by the cofferdam in order to secure foundations for construction.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Cofferdams, Machinery, Water
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Plate 10: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
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Mechanics: hand crank; force pump; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; worm and worm gear; lantern and rack; flywheel; roller guides.
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Plate 101: Device for draining water from a swamp or pool by river current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; Archimedean screw; angle spur gears; lantern and crown gear.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Water-power, Water-wheels, Machinery
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Plate 100: Device for draining water from a swamp or foundation by river current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; horizontal crankshaft; force pump; horizontal working beam; crank and connecting rod.
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Wherever there's water, there's pH...
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Advertisement about using various models of Beckman pH meters for monitoring water quality in industrial settings.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California…
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Beckman Water Quality System
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- Photographer Photomation
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Water quality, Water quality--Measurement, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman Water Quality System
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The Beckman Water Quality System incorporates Hach Company instruments.
- Photographer Photomation
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Water quality, Water quality--Measurement, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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