Posted by Mike-the-lapsed-Aussie-hydraulics-engineer on April 10, 2001 at 01:55:04 from 203.26.98.4:
In Reply to: Re: Electricity at Beckfoot posted by Gordon on April 09, 2001 at 22:51:06:
Pelton wheels -- weren't they just wonderful? Not on a par with hydraulic rams for ingenuity, of course, but lovely things all the same.
I remember having to do a fabrciation drawing of one once a few decades back, and the curves in those water-splitting buckets were the very devil to get right -- much worse than the dethridge wheels we used out here to measure irrigation-water flow.
Thanks for reminding me about them, Gordon.