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 173
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… … Z SO S « -I CO !~ Z (M g. i-i (C^« ^ sDC H Z < — e CC Si : < = w - < =a a 9 ^ s - 2 .^ ft- 8 O -r o £ WATER-POWER DEVELOPMENT PART II TURBINES on. A turbine consists essentially of a series of short, curvedpassageways or buckets divided from one another by vanes or })lades,the whole…
