Water Wheels or Hydraulic Motors

I am an engineer who designs screens to keep fish out of irrigation ditches and in the river. Many of these screens are small, and in isolated locations miles from the electrical grid. This leaves two options to operate the screen; use the energy in the water, or use solar panels. The program I work for has been building and maintaining screens for fifty years and the guys who build the screens have developed a good paddlewheel system for diversions of 3-cfs and larger. For smaller diversions they have been relying on solar panels.I looked all over, and called all kinds of people trying to find real engineering design criteria for paddlewheels. There isn't much out there. There are a few books, that give rules of thumb, for design and contruction of waterwheels, but this is the only one that is an engineering text, complete with the physics and math of why and how they work.During the beginning of the industrial revolution, water was the prime power source, and the United States, and the European nations were doing a lot of research on paddlewheels, and how to make them more efficient. When Tesla figured out how to build an efficient electric motor, generator and distribution system, nearly all of the research in paddle wheels ended. There was still quite a bit on turbines and Pelton wheels, because they can turn generators.This book, was written when the paddle wheel was still the king, and captured the state of the art, when that art was at it's pinacle.This isn't a coffee table book for those with out an engineering, or physics background. It is an engineering manual on how to design efficient paddle wheels, and covers the topic better than any other I found in a year of looking.

If you're interested only in the mathematical/engineering calculations about water wheels or hydraulic motors circa late1900's then this is your book.Very compact and to the point...zero fluff.This is not a history book.Order only the light blue copy because that is a replica and not an OCR'd book!

This is a good book for a engineer!