Hydraulic motors, with related subjects, including centrifugal pumps, pipes, and open channels, designed as a text-book for engineering schools (1905)
Church, Irving Porter, 1851-1931 · New York : J. Wiley & Sons; [etc, ] · leaf 131
meter, conducting waterunder pressure to the wheel-casing, e. At the upper andlower extremities of this casing revolve the two wheels, thedischarge from which issues at a from the upper, and at Tfrom the lower, turbine. T shows also the level of the tail-water at the bottom of the wheel-pit. The… … Fig 52. Fig 53 108 § 74. FOURNEYRON TURBINES AT NIAGARA. 109 such that all the channelways are completely filled with water,so that it operates as a reaction turbine and not as an impulse,or tangential, wheel. S is the shaft, which for strength and lightness combinedis mainly hollow, consisting of…
Hydraulic machinery
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