The power from a horse- or cattle-powered mill was small compared to that from overshot water-wheels, which usually generated two to five horsepower.
In terms of hydraulic efficiency, classical horizontal waterwheels reach values on the order of 50%, being well below those obtained from overshot (71%), waterfall (66%) and, even, undershot (65%) vertical ones.
At the time the mill's motive power came from an overshot water wheel supplied with water from the Liffey River via a long wooden trough.
An American Airlines flight from Miami overshot the runway in Kingston on Tuesday but came to a safe stop, an airline spokesman said.
One of the company's young acrobats overshot a somersault-leap from the shoulders of one performer to another - rather than landing on a raised hand, he hit an elbow, and slid to the floor.
JERUSALEM — A rocket fired by militants from Gaza overshot the Israeli port city of Ashdod on Thursday afternoon, landing in an open area to the north, as Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was meeting with Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, less than 20 miles up the coast in Tel Aviv.
In 2010, when an Air India Express flight from Dubai overshot the runway in the western Indian city of Mangalore and crashed, killing all 158 passengers, investigators found that 10 of them had been travelling with forged or stolen documents.
Samples were overshot along the ballistic track from the Beryl rifle.
However an entirely uncharacteristic error from Webber, when he overshot his pit box at the end of the third stint cost the squad time, an error compounded by a one minute stop-go penalty subsequently imposed on the team.
And the safety board is investigating an incident in February in which a Go airlines flight from Honolulu to Hilo, Hawaii, overshot the airport by 15 miles, at which point the crew was alerted by an air traffic controller.
