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 300
apoint somewhat overa mile above theFalls, to deliver theAvater to wheels in apit at the side of thecanal, and to con-duct the water fromthe wheels to the riverbelow the Fallsthrough a tunnel7,000 feet long,driv-en through tlie rockat a d istanceof nearly200 feet beneath thecity of Niagara Falls.… … Fig. 170. Transverse Section of Wheel-Pit. Power-HouseNo. 1, Niagara Falls Power Company. 210 AVATER-rC AVER DEVEL0P:MEXT portal of the tunnel is about 1,100 feet below the American Fall, at themean elevation of 343.4 feet. This makes a gross head of 217.8 feet.The canal, which was excavated to…
