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 19
years to build, requiring about 8.50,0U0 cu. yds. of masonry. Completed in 1906. Cost, a>7,<00,000.Lentrth, 2,400 feet; height, 301 feet; thickness, 216 feet at base, tapering to ten feet at top of spillway(at left) and 21 feet at top of main dam. Capacity. 30,000,000,000 gals., and with… … HYDRAULICS The volume of the lower part of the vessel = (3 X 6^ X 3.14 169.5<) eu. ft., and of the ii])per part = ^^— -— = 25.12 4: cii. feet. Total voluine. =^ 194:.<)S en. ft., and weiij:ht of water =194.68 X 62.5 = 12,167 pounds. Note that the difference between the dowiiward pressure…
