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 211
, also for certain cases of tide-mills, the fall acting onthe turbines may be increased throughout the year, over and alx>vethe natural fall, so as to produce a greater speed, and thus render thelocation more fit for generating electricity; while at the same time itwill diminish the cost of the… … Fig. 80. Application of a Fall-Increaser to a Power Plant. exhausts the turbine discharge from the vacuum-box, and also pro-duces a partial vacuum in this vacuum box, thus increasing the fallthat would otherwise act upon the turbines. Fig. 80 show^s diagram-matically the application of a…
