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    The Poncelet wheel is a type of waterwheel invented by Jean-Victor Poncelet while working at the École d'Application in Metz. It roughly doubled the efficiency...
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    Jean-Victor Poncelet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ viktɔʁ pɔ̃slɛ]; 1 July 1788 – 22 December 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most...
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  • started to design better wheels. In 1823 Jean-Victor Poncelet invented a very efficient undershot wheel design that could work on very low heads, which was...
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    efficiencies of up to 84% (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-AfK2Bl4NY). Poncelet wheel, a similar concept that improved the undershot design Reynolds, pg....
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    1852. In 1926 the old water wheel was replaced with a more efficient Poncelet wheel. The mill is now a Grade II* listed building. The Oxford, Worcester...
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    doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04629-w. PMID 35508780. S2CID 248526001. Charpentier Poncelet, Alexandre; Helbig, Christoph; Loubet, Philippe; Beylot, Antoine; Muller...
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    carried out. The mill was powered by an external Poncelet wheel, a more efficient form of undershot water wheel, but its condition in 2013 was poor. Internally...
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    turbine runner, causing it to spin. Another French engineer, Jean-Victor Poncelet, designed an inward-flow turbine in about 1820 that used the same principles...
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    found at Hacienda Buena Vista in Ponce, Puerto Rico. In 1820, Jean-Victor Poncelet developed an inward-flow turbine. In 1826, Benoît Fourneyron developed...
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    the CV or horsepower. Based on a 100 kgf⋅m/s standard, it was called the poncelet and was abbreviated p. Tax or fiscal horsepower is a non-linear rating...
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