 | 1879 - 542 pages
...or quantity of cloth were greatest, that the second term of the ratio was less. IV. — Concerning the effects of sails, according to the different velocity...together the respective numbers of columns 4 and 5, Table II., wherein those of Nos. 2, 4, and 6, ought to be double of Nos. 1, 3, and 5 : but as the deviation... | |
 | Alfred R. Wolff - 1885 - 190 pages
...greatest effect, for want of proper interstices to escape. SMEATON'S MAXIMS. 1. The velocity of the windmill sails, whether unloaded, or loaded so as...the wind ; their shape and position being the same. 2. The load at the maximum is nearly, but somewhat less than, as the square of the velocity of the... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - 1900 - 742 pages
...miles an hour.. Smeaton draws the following conclusions from his experiments: (1) The velocity of the windmill sails, whether unloaded, or loaded so as to produce a maximum, is nearly as the velocity ot the wind: their shape and position being the same. (2) The load at the maximum is nearly, but somewhat... | |
 | Alexander James Wallis-Tayler - 1900 - 496 pages
...to nine feet per second : — 1. The velocity of windmill sails, so as to produce a maximum effect, is nearly as the velocity of the wind, their shape and position being the same. 2. The load at the maximum is nearly as, but somewhat less than, the square of the velocity of the... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - 1901 - 714 pages
...miles an hour. Smeaton draws the following conclusions from his experiments: (1) The velocity of the windmill sails, whether unloaded, or loaded so as...the wind: their shape and position being the same. (2) The load at the maximum is nearly, but somewhat less than as the square of the velocity of the... | |
 | Robert Steele Ball - 1908 - 382 pages
...structure in a gale of this severity. 1. The velocity of windmill sails, so as to produce a maximum effect, is nearly as the velocity of the wind, their shape and position being the same. 2. The load at the maximum is nearly as, but somewhat less than, the square of the velocity of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1761 - 582 pages
...the cube of the velocity of the water. The velocity of windmill fails, whether unloaded, or loaded fo as to produce a maximum, is nearly as the velocity of the wind, their ihape and pofition being the fame. The load at the maximum is nearly, but fomewhat lefs than, as the... | |
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... 2. The load at the maximum is nearly, but somewhat less than, as the square of the velocity of the wind ; the shape and position of the sails being the same. 
