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 312
feet; but the total diameter of the turbine, which should includethe casing around the guide-wheel, is 12 feet. The guide-wheel ofthe Faesch & Piccard turbine has 36 buckets, and the turbine wheel32, of bronze cast solid with the rim. The outside diameter of thewheel of this turbine is about 7… … Fig. 178. Arrangement of Turbines andDraft-Tubes. Power-House No. 2, Ni-agara Fulls Power Company. 222 WATER-POWER DEVELOPMENT the cast-iron elbow at the foot of the penstock was carried on built-up girders, these in turn resting on brickwork walls 2 to 2\ feetthick; but the vibration to which they…
