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 279
s as Made and Tested by U. S. Geological Survey. 188 WATER-POWER DEVELOPMENT energy .of the water into mechanical power, and the latter into a formsuitable for transmission, in a single power-house, from which centralstation the power may be conveyed long distances, and applied to vari-ous machines… … Fig. 143. Construction of Pipe by Movable Form. Courtesy of U. ,y. Geological Survey. but, since the great development of electricity in comparatively recenttimes, this agent is most generally employed for that purpose. It does not usually happen that a fall available for power pro-duction (either…
