Pelton Wheel Turbine

“Turbine is, in mechanics, a term formerly confined to horizontal water wheels, the revolution of which is due to the pressure derived from falling water, but now applied generally to any wheel driven by water escaping through small orifices subject to such pressure. The turbine was invented by Fourneyron in 1823, and the first one was made in 1827. Air and steam turbines are also in use, air and steam being used instead of water to drive the impulse wheel."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Keywords

water, wheel, steam, turbine, air, turbine wheel, pelton, fourneyron

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Source

Everybody's Cyclopedia (New York, NY: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1912)

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