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 163
WATER-POWER DEVELOPMENT 77 In the electric power station at A\>rnayaz, Switzerland, are six1,000~horse-power Girard wheels, workin<^ nnder a head of 1,()40 feet;the outer diameter of each wheel is about 6.5 feet; and the normalspeed, about 540 revolutions per minute. These wheels work withbut…
