Poncelet Wheel
The Poncelet Wheel, 1826, a drawing from a model in the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, France. At the time, the Poncelet water wheel offered a more efficient design in hydraulic power. Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788-1867) was a French engineer and mathematician. He is known for having revived projective geometry
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Diagram Hydraulic Poncelet Waterwheel
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