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 274
t the staves will become saturated l)y the water. Thewood used for such stavepipes is, in the order of its value for the pur-pose: California redwood, Douglas spruce (also called Douglas fir),spruce, white pine, southern pine, and cypress. The staves of a wooden penstock that is not left empty…