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 216
sare in motion, bythe upward pres-sure of the water inthe wheel-case ona balancing pistonor disc B, placed above the upper wheel and rigidly attached to theshaft. The upper disc containing the guides is perforated so that thewater pressure existing in the penstock can be transmitted directlythrough… … Fig. 84. Thrust Piston with Twin-Flow Wheels Mounted onSame Shaft. Niagara Falls Powt-r Co., Power-House No. 1. 128 WATER-POWEIl DEVELOPMENT —— ^ to the wheel-case, which, together with the penstock, is supportedupon several girders. At the upper end of the shaft is a specialthrust-bearing designed…
