Electrical engineer's pocket-book: a hand-book of useful data for electricians and electrical engineers (1901)
Foster, Horatio A. (Horatio Alvah), 1858-1913 · New York, D. Van Nostrand co.; London, E.& F.N. Spon, ltd. · leaf 953
et. Fontaines turbine is of thisclass, the wheel being placed at the bottom of the water-pipe or flume, justabove the level of the tail-race. The water passes through guide blades andstrikes the curved floats of the wheel. Jonvals turbine is of similar type,but is arranged to work partly by… … Fig. 15. Victor Wheel set in ordinary Flume. Outward-flow Turbines have a somewhat higher efficiency than theparallel-floAv —as much as 88 per cent has been realized by Boydens tur-bine ; Fourneyrons has given a maximum of 79 per cent. Inward-flow Turbines have been designed by SAvain and…
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