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Experiments upon the Tremont Turbine.
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sequence of a concavity in the path, that centrifugal force can have any existence. With the gate only partially raised, this force may act powerfully in increasing the discharge, and a similar effect may be produced, at high velocities, with the gate fully raised; but in experiment 30, giving the maximum coefficient of effect, it can have had only a slight action.
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