 | William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - Industrial arts - 1831 - 406 pages
...the effect of the application of side and centre paddles, worked by men placed in the twin boat. " The result of these experiments shewed, that the resistance...the contrary, at a high rate of velocity, say above 10 miles an hour, the forces necessary to the propulsion of the boat on a broad and narrow line of... | |
 | William Newton - 1831 - 406 pages
...the effect of the application of side and centre paddles, worked by men placed in the twin boat. " The result of these experiments shewed, that the resistance...the contrary, at a high rate of velocity, say above 10 miles an hour, the forces necessary to the propulsion of the boat on a broad and narrow line of... | |
 | Meteorology - 1831 - 896 pages
...resistance to the progress of the boat, on a broad line of water, was considerably less than on a narrow line; on the contrary, at a high rate of velocity,...the forces necessary to the propulsion of the boat, un a broad, and narrow line of water, appeared to be the same if the advantage was not rather in favour... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1832 - 834 pages
...and from them he deduces results confounding all the established theories, " that the resistanceto a body drawn along a line of water confined within...to be the same, if the advantage was not rather in favor of the narrow line." From these observations, he was induced * to recommend, and the Forth and... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 898 pages
...»iz: * and under six miles an hour, the resistance to the progress of the boat, on • .'••road line of water, was considerably less than on a narrower line; on tte contrary, at a high rate of velocity, say above ten miles an hour, the forces necessary to the... | |
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... that the resistance to a body drawn along a line of water confined within the banks of a canal, did not appear to increase in the ratio laid down in theory; and that, while at a low rate of velocity, viz. at and under six miles an hour, the resistance... 