812 



INDEX 



Scoop wheel, 579 

 Scott Russell, 396 



Scouring and silting of open channels, 343 

 Screw propulsion, 402 

 pump, 581 * 

 Sewers, 306 



Ships, resistance of, 393 

 propulsion of, 401 

 stability curve, 34 

 metacentric height, 33 

 oscillations of, 36 

 ,, suction between, 329 

 Side wheel, 432 

 Silting, 343 

 Similar orifices, 135 



pumps and turbines, 668 

 Slip in pumps, 594 

 Sluice valves, 776 

 Small orifices, 102 

 Smeaton, 431 



Smith, Hamilton, 2, 105, 144 

 Snoqualmie Falls, 501 

 Speed regulation of Pelton wheel, 285, 447 



turbines, 515 



Standing waves, 312, 314 

 Stand pipes, 520, 564 

 Stanton, 215, 389 



Steam-hydraulic forging press, 770 

 Stearns, 141, 144 

 Stevinus, 1 



Stoppage by gradual closing of valve, 225 

 of motion in pipe of uniform bore 



222 

 Stream lines, 45 



change in pressure across, 95 

 line motion, 44, 65 

 ., rating curves, 363 

 Submerged bodies, resistance to motion of 



393 



orifices, 107, 132 



weirs, 157 



Suction between ships, 329 

 ,, pipes for pumps, 645 

 tube, 483 

 Sudden contraction of area, 93 



enlargement of cross section, 82 

 initiation , 240 

 stoppage of pipe flow, 232 

 Suppressed contraction, 106 

 Surface tension, 7 

 Surge pipes, 520, 564 

 Suspension bearing, 482, 49 1 

 Symbols used in book, xvii. 



Syphon, 273 



inverted, 278 



T. 



TAIL race, 527 

 Taper pipes, loss in, 84 

 Tee branch losses at, 255 

 Thomson, James, 152, 496, 606 

 Threlfall, 214 

 Thrupp, 203, 296, 361 

 Time of discharge from notches, 171 

 small orifices, 121 



through pipe line, 201 



Torricelli, 1 



Transmissibility of pressure, 18 

 Transmission of energy (hydraulic), 710 

 Trapezoidal weirs, 155 

 Trumpet-shaped pipes, 87 

 Triangular weirs, 151 

 Turbines, American type, 511, 557 



balancing of end thrust, 504, 551 

 Barker's mill, 471 

 Borda, 475 

 classification of, 464 

 comparison of, 563 

 ,, compound, 509 

 Cone, 483 



fly-wheel effect, 567 

 ., Fourneyron, 475, 518 

 Francis, 487 



Gates, 438, 524 



Girard, 465, 558, 



governing of, 515, 565 



Haenel, 464 



,, Impulse, 464, 558 

 Jonval, 479 

 losses in, 547 

 New American, 513 

 ,, Niagara, 491 

 ,, pressure, 471 

 ., Samson Lcffel, 514 

 Shawinigan, 4!)0 

 Snoqualmie Falls, 502 

 ., theory of, 530 

 ,. Thomson, 496 

 Victor, 512 

 Vortex, 496 

 Tutton, 203 



U. 



UNDERSHOT wheel, 434 

 Unwin, 166, 180, 202 

 Utilisation of water powers, 422 



