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Definition of Flashboards
1. flashboard [n] - See also: flashboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flashboards
Literary usage of Flashboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hydro-electric Power Stations by David Barker Rushmore, Eric A. Lof (1917)
"flashboards The maintaining of a constant water level above the dam is ...
This is accomplished by providing flashboards, which are placed on the top of the ..."
2. Hydroelectric Developments and Engineering: A Practical and Theoretical by Frank Koester (1909)
"A detailed description of this system will be found in The Engineering Record}
flashboards. In order to take care of surplus water during flooding periods, ..."
3. Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1909)
"Retarding Velocity by flashboards on Fall Crest.— The effect of a fall is to
increase the velocity and to diminish the depth of water for some distance ..."
4. Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1909)
"Retarding Velocity by flashboards on Fall Crest. — The effect of a fall is to
increase the velocity and to diminish the depth of water for some distance ..."
5. Manual of Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1896)
"Retarding Velocity by flashboards on Fall Crest. — The effect of a fall is to
increase the velocity and to diminish the depth of water for some distance ..."
6. Report Upon New York's Water Supply: With Particular Reference to the Need by John Ripley Freeman (1900)
"If by flashboards storage is added to extent of 4000 ? mil. gals. If by lease of
ponds not owned is added 855 " " If by emptying Central Park reservoirs ..."
7. Water-power: An Outline of the Development and Application of the Energy of by Joseph Palmer Frizell (1901)
"The height of the centre of pressure of the flashboards above the crest of the dam
... _ 3 A 2 — Vr •) io • When the water is at the top of the flashboards, ..."
8. Water-power: An Outline of the Development and Application of the Energy of by Joseph Palmer Frizell (1901)
"The height of the centre of pressure of the flashboards above the crest of the dam
... The total pressure on the flashboards to be borne by a pin will be, ..."
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