Excerpt from Rudimentary Treatise on the Power of Water: As Applied to Drive Flour Mills, and to Give Motion to Turbines and Other Hydrostatic Engines Some of the most pleasant days of the author's early life were passed on a small, but picturesque estate belonging to his family, on which were three corn mills - one driven by wind, and two by water. To his youthful associations with these and their tenants may in part be owing his attachment to mechanical pursuits. Subsequently his father was induced, as an investment, to build, on other property, a flour-mill driven by steam, to which, during its erection, he was a daily visitor. In after life his professional employment as a civil engineer frequently involved the construction of water wheels, many of them on a large scale, for drainage and irrigation, and for motive power, besides hydraulic works of various kinds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.