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 252
ueto a change in load takes place, the governor will set the regulatinggate in motion; but, owing to the inertia of the water, a certain amountof time is required for the turbine to return to the proper speed: so thatthe gate would have traveled in the interval beyond the required posi-tion, and in… … Fig. 121. Diagrammatic Repre.sentation of ReplogleCentrifugal Governor and Return. 164 WATER-POWER DEVELOPMENT must be arrestee!-before the latter has traveled too far, by a return de-vice. 181. Time of Closure. Mechanical (governors effect an entire
