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 282
EVELOPMENT 191 water supply, or irrigation, there are many important features requir-ing very special attention, some of which have already been referredto—such as the headworks, with the corresponding regulator- or head-gates for controlling the supply of water into the canal head; the diver-sion… … Fig. IW. Bear Valley Canal. Redlands. California,lioiilder-liued and plastered. Courtesy of •Enrjinccrinfj Xews. the canal (|ui(kly in ca.scof accident or danger, or to dispose of surpluswater in times of Hood or excessive nims; sand-gates, for scouring outdeposits of sand or silt; vertical falls…
