Water-power; an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water . atingboom, anchored to timber cribs filled with stone, extendsobliquely across the westerly channel for the exclusion of lower part of the povver-house is of concrete resting onrock. The floor is formed b\- arches springing from steel which are supported by steel I-beam columns. A con-crete head-wall 6 feet thick divides the floor into two up-stream portion is the flume, containing the wheels anddraft-tubes. The part is the generator-room,which the horizontal
Water-power; an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water . atingboom, anchored to timber cribs filled with stone, extendsobliquely across the westerly channel for the exclusion of lower part of the povver-house is of concrete resting onrock. The floor is formed b\- arches springing from steel which are supported by steel I-beam columns. A con-crete head-wall 6 feet thick divides the floor into two up-stream portion is the flume, containing the wheels anddraft-tubes. The part is the generator-room,which the horizontal shafts enter through stuffing-boxes inplates built into the concrete wall. Along the up-stream faceof the power-house runs a rack formed of flat steel rods, sus-tained by a frame of steel beams and pillars, the whole sur-mounted by a bridge for the convenience of workmen incleaning the racks. There are ten pairs of 42-inch horizontal * The drawings and description of this plant are from EngineeringNews, vol. XL. p. 130, and EtigineeringRecord, vol. p. 299. 5o6 THE MECHANICSVILLE OX THE HUDSON. 507 Victor turbines, two pairs on each shaft. On the obtainablehead of 18 feet these run at 114 turns per minute, each wheelbeing rated at 250 and each set of four driving a 750-
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