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 318
a collar-bearing. In Power-House Xo. 2, an-other arrangement was necessary. A special piston is here provided. WATER-POWER DEVELOPMENT 227 4 feet 6 inches in diameter, the water-pressure on which, due to thehead, partially balances the weight. The excess or unbalanced loadin this case is taken by… … Fig. 183. Detail of 10,000-11.-P. Turbiae, Cauadiau Niagai-a Power Company. with the sluices. In Power-IIouse No, 2, the relay is of the hydraulictype. In this case the sensitive governor in action opens a valve,thus actuating a ram driven by oil from an oil reservoir, at a pressureof 1,200 lbs.…
