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 158
)es, esj)ecially when underhigh pressure, it is difficult and dangerous suddenly to vary the tjuan-tity of water delivered by the nozzle in such a manner as is necessaryto regulate the speed of a hydro-electric generating imit subject to … Fig. 55. -Lombard Automatic Hydraulic Governor. 74 WATER-POWER DEVELOPMENT siiddcii violent variations of load. Consccpuntly it has become cus-tomary to regulate the speed of such units bv deflecting the jet ofwater, so that all, or part of it, misses the water-wheel buckets, andis for the moment…
