Speed government in water-power plants

✍ Scribed by Mark A. Replogle

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1898
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 958 KB
• Volume: 145
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(98)90187-9

✦ Synopsis

No problem in hydrodynamics has created so much interest in the past few xears as the government of water-powers. When it had been demonstrated that power could be successfully transmitted to great distances by the use of electric currents, the economist very naturally conceived the idea of harnessing available waterfalls. It was well known that turbine water-wheels could be constructed that would furnish to a dynamo an efficiency of 75 per cent., or more, of the energy represented by the fall or head. The conservative engineer and the investor, however, were much concerned about the VoI.. CXLV. No. 866.