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 242
ack of energy must besupplied from some outside source. Any decrease in the gate-opening, andconsequent decrease in the velocity of thewater in the penstock, will thus produce a tem-porary increase in the penstock pressure; and —^ ... .1 . 1 ■ • 1 1 ji • • • Fig. 111. Straightway With the gates… … Only. of a blow, usually called water-hammer. On opening, giving a perfectly fiee way for the water. hand, any inrrpn^p in flip o-nfp- Seats are of bronze, to be & iv replaced when worn. the velocity of the water in the otheropening and in the penstock, will pnxluce a temporary decrease in the…
