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 172
the com-plete filling of the wheel-channels was assured when properly designed.This was the first moflern turbine—a motor which, as varied and im-proved by Fontaine, Henschel, Jonval, and others in Europe, and byBoyden and Francis, and their successors in America, has grown inpopular favor, and,… … LARGEST TURBINE IN THE WORLD Installed at the Shawiuigau Falls Power Station on the St Maurice l•i^:el^^!^bout8^ milesnortheast of Montreal, Que. Weight,;:^!! 1,000 pounds: height. 30 feet: weight of wheel, d tonsreigMof32-in. shaft, 10 tons; intake.* 10 feet in diameter: amount of water passing…
