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 333
onry tunnel;and finally, for 3,936 feet, it is again a steel pipe, 2.62 feet in diameter.At the end of the last section, the pipe branches into three pipes,each of 1.64 feet diameter. One of these pipes extends to the j)o\\ci-plant; but the others are plugged, and will be built to the power-house… … head of water is only 089 feet; but from this point on, the desctni isverv abrupt. At this point, also, there is a retaining valve, and avertical stand pipe (regulator) 1.31 feet in diameter, and 82 feet high,which relieves the water-hammer in the pipe-line above. 215. The steep-grade pipe-line,…
