Author: SMEATON, J. [Transl. by M.P.S.Girard]
Title: Recherches Expérimentales sur L'eau et le Vent, considérés comme forces motrices, applicables aux moulins et autres machines a mouvement circulaire, etc.; suivies d'expériences sur la transmission du mouvement et la collision des corps; ...
Description: Paris, Chez Courcier, Imprimeur-Libraire pour les Mathématiques, quai des Augustins, no 57, et a La Haye, Chez Immerzeel et Compagnie, Libraires, 1810. 4to. W. 5 fold. engr. pls. ['Gravé par N.L.Rousseau'] (each plate w. 3 small restored / filled in 1 cm tears / holes). Contemp. half brown clf., over brown marbled brds., spine w. red title shield and simple horizontal giltruling. [n2, a-c4, d2, 1 - 13 in 4s]. (IV, XXVIII, 102, I (errata and contents), I (blank) pp.). DSB vol. XII, pp. 461 - 463 {Smeaton]: 'During the last 35 years of his life he was responsible for many engineering projects, including bridges, steam engine facilities, power stations, run by wind or water, mill structures and machinery, and river and harbour improvements.': Rouse & Ince, p. 123: 'Girard's enthusiastic translation of Smeaton's work early in the 19th century gave it a place of prominence in French as well as English engineering literature.': Roberts & Trent, Bibl. Mechanica, comp. p. 297 [Engl. ed. 1794] 'The first outstanding engineer to use cast iron to any extent, Smeaton made use of it in the construction of windmills, water wheels and pumps. ... The work is devoted to experiments on undershot waterwheels, overshot wheels and on the construction and effects of windmill sails. The results of these experiments demonstrated the greater efficiency of overshot water wheels. To this has been added his "An experimental examination of the quantity and proportion of mechanic power necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies from a state of rest"...': Comp. Timoshenko, 72:

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