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 345
r-wheel and electrical apparatus, which is accom-plished from the switc-hboard at one end of the building. The com-plete ecjuipment of eight units will require a building considerablyover 200 feet in length. It was found necessary to reduce the lengthof each unit to the minimum, and for this and… … WATER-POWER DEVELOPMENT 251 placed one on each side of the engine-type generator, which is in thecenter of the bed-plate; it enables V)earings to be more nearly eciuallyloaded than if entire output were ol)tained from one wheel. Eachof the two wheels on each unit is required to develop 3,7)0…
