 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1859 - 750 pages
...application in practice, are for many purposes suitable and convenient. They are, however, but ill adapted for the measurement of very variable quantities of...moderately dry weather, the water flows so shallow over its crest that its indications cannot be relied on. To remove, in some degree, this objection, gauges for... | |
 | John Neville (civil engineer.) - 1860 - 516 pages
...application in practice, are for many purposes suitable and convenient. They are, however, but ill adapted for the measurement of very variable quantities of...moderately dry weather, the water flows so shallow over its crest, that its indications cannot be relied on. To remove, in some degree, this objection, gauges... | |
 | John Neville - Hydraulic engineering - 1861 - 494 pages
...application in practice, are for many purposes suitable and convenient. They are, however, but ill adapted for the measurement of very variable quantities of...moderately dry weather, the water flows so shallow over its crest, that its indications cannot be relied on. To remove, in some degree, this objection, gauges... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1862 - 776 pages
...ordinary rectangular notches, although for many purposes suitable and convenient, are but ill adapted for the measurement of very variable quantities of...to the engineer to be gauged in rivers and streams ; because, if the rectangular notch be made wide enough to allow the water to pass through it in flood... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1862 - 804 pages
...ordinary rectangular notches, although for many purposes suitable and convenient, are but ill adapted for the measurement of very variable quantities of...to the engineer to be gauged in rivers and streams ; because, if the rectangular notch be made wide enough to allow the water to pass through it in flood... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1867 - 460 pages
...vertical plates for the gauging of running water, instead of the rectangular notches in ordinary use. The ordinary rectangular notches, accurately experimented...moderately dry weather, the water flows so shallow over its crest, that its indications cannot be relied on. To remove in some degree this objection, gauges for... | |
 | William Davis Haskoll - 1868 - 224 pages
...application in practice, are for many purposes suitable and convenient. They are, however, but ill adapted for the measurement of very variable quantities of...in rivers and streams. If the rectangular notch is made wide enough to allow the water to pass in flood times, it must be so wide that for long periods,... | |
 | William Davis Haskoll - 1868 - 252 pages
...practice. For many purposes they are both suitable and convenient. They are, however, but ill adapted for the measurement of very variable quantities of water, such as commonly occur in gauging small or moderately sized streams ; this is particularly the case with streams flowing through... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1860 - 448 pages
...vertical plates for the gauging of running water, instead of the rectangular notches in ordinary use. The ordinary rectangular notches, accurately experimented...moderately dry weather, the water flows so shallow over its crest, that its indications cannot be relied on. To remove in some degree this objection, gauges for... | |
 | J. Leffel & Co - Barrages - 1874 - 348 pages
...notch in such cases is that if it is made wide enough to allow the water to pass in time of flood, it must be so wide that for long periods, in moderately dry weather, the water flows so shallow over its crest that its indications cannot be relied on. Accordingly, it is proposed to make the triangular... | |
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If the rectangular notch is to be made wide enough to allow the water to pass in flood times, it must be so wide that for long periods, in moderately dry weather, the water flows so shallow over its crest, that its indications cannot be relied on. 
