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 150
he surface of the tail-water. Draft-tubes are rarely made longer than 10 to 15 ft., theirprincipal use being to render the turbine easily accessible forexamination, repairs, etc. Fig. 63 (on p. 123) shows a wheel-casing receiving water from a penstock (not shown; enteringthe casing from behind) and… … Fig. 6ob. Escher Wyss & Co. Turbines at Spiez, Switzerland.
Hydraulic machinery
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