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 322
watershed could be utilized asimpounding reservoirs, so as to ensure a uniform flow sufficient todevelop nearly 100,000 horse-power throughout the year, should a de-mand for so much power eventually be found. It was also deter-mined that by the erection of a 5(1-foot dam above the headwoiks,… … 232 WATER-PO^^^R DEVELOPMENT The rock at the Falls is basaltic, with no regular cleavage. It ishard and non-absorbent, and is apparently divided by seams intogreat ledges. These conditions led to the adoption of the plan ofplacing the machinery in an underground chamber, as already noted.It was at…
