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 140
conducts the water to the turbine inthe wheel-casing, E. After leaving the wheel, the water entersthe upper ends of two draft-tubes (or suction-tubes, asthey are often called), from which it is finally discharged intothe tail-water at T. These draft-tubes discharge underwater that the air may not… … Fig. 59. 117 118 HYDRAULIC MOTORS. § 78. is in motion, the internal fluid pressure being less than oneatmosphere at points of higher elevation than the surface ofthe tail-water. Their upper extremities are not more thanabout 20 ft. above the surface of the tail-water, so that thewater continues to…
Hydraulic machinery
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