Excerpt from Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania and Mechanics' Register, 1841, Vol. 32: Devoted to Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures, and the Recording of American and Other Patented Inventions While in the experiments Of Smeaton the overshot wheel appears to have been underrated, the undershot coefficient agrees very nearly with that just deduced; hence our comparison is more advantageous to the overshot wheel than his, in the proportion of to 2. 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.