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 144
f the radial inward-flow type, and was invented by Prof. James Thomson. Itis remarkable for its excellent device for regulating the flowof water and for the fact that the outer radius is made fromtwo to four times as great as that of the inner, or discharge,circumference. Fig. 61 shows a view of… … §81. PARALLEL-FLOW TURBINE. 121 to the wheel-entrances; i.e. there are only four guide-blades,like EG. Each of these guide-blades is pivoted at G, very nearthe extremity, so that when the blades are turned on thesepivots, the water way may be diminished in sectional area;without, however, sensibly…
Hydraulic machinery
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