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Mr. Knight has keen perceptive powers and is quick to see an advantage for the improvement of all mechanism. Consequently his inventive turn of mind has brought about great changes in the utility of mining machinery, mids, and hoist plants. His late product, the electrical governor, which controls the speed and regulates the supply of water on the immense Knight wheel, is a stride far in advance of all competitors, .
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The mines of the surrounding district are favored with one of the largest and best equipped foundry and machine shops in the state outside of San Francisco. The shop, located in Sutter Creek, is supplied with all the modern improvements and appliances for handling heavy work, such as is wed in the mines. They have lathes that swing offset in diameter, and a planer that takes in work 4 feet square and 16 feet long. Their rolls for sheet-iron work take inPieces 10 feet long and are strong enough to roll any thickness of steel plates, having hydraulic appliances for handling them.
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S. N. Knight, the senior member of the firm, is an acknowledged authority on water wheel power upon the Pacific Coast. It is he who first perfected and nwde practical the bucket wheel and the other manufacturers, such as Pelton and Dodd wheel, were a modification and copy of the general plan of the Knight wheel. Today the wonderful power obtained from these wheels has made possible cheap motive power on the lode, and the owners of the many hoisting works and mills owe to his genius a debt of gratitude.
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