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 191
ving the position of the gate, each turbine,before being installed in the mill where it is to work, is tested at thetesting-flume of the company, and thus becomes a water-meter, whoseindications, when the motor is in final place, are noted from day today by an inspector to the company. In the same… … Pig. 74. Vertical Section of Holyoke Testing-Flume. walls of the wheel-pit DD, which is 20 feet scjuare, are built of stonemasonry, and lined with brick laid in cement. The water is admittedto it from the head canal through a trunk or penstock, and vestibule,which are not shown in the figure. Over…