Hydraulic engineering; a practical treatise on the principles of water pressure and flow and their application to the development of water power, including the calculation, design and construction of water wheels, turbines, and other details of hydraulic power plants (1909)
American School (Chicago, Ill.), Black, Adolph, Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, 1866- · Chicago American School of Correspondence · leaf 154
nly from manu-facturers catalogues, follows: 82. Under average conditions of operation, a governor is notnecessary, as, with a constant load, the speed of the wheel is abso-lutely uniform. When slight and infrequent changes occur—suchas are caused by hanging up stamps of a battery, for… … FiR. 49. Section of a Needle Nozzle. times happens, however, especially when operating electric plants,that the fluctuations in speed are sudden and severe; and in thesecages an automatic regulator is essential. In such cases the speed ofthe wheel may be controlled by means of various devices,…
