One of the main 2000 horse-power turbines, made by the famous Swiss engineers, Escher Wyss and Co.
Caption: One of the main 2000 horse-power turbines, made by the famous Swiss engineers, Escher Wyss and Co.: erected complete and opened up for inspection. The water comes from the pipe up through the floor on the left, travels round the circular cast iron casing (which bears the maker’s name): escapes from that through a circular internal slot, and is sent on by the guide blades (seen on each of the 20 pins that appear in a circle within the larger circle of projecting bolts). These direct the water inwards into the central chamber, whose hollow interior is furnished with blades set at right angles to the direction of the incoming stream. The wheel, through its blades, takes up the force of the water, and is thus made to rotate, and convey the power to the main shaft and thence to the electric generator. A glimpse of the blades in the inner wheel is caught just below the part of the shaft seen.
Description: Works nearing completion at the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric power station.
Source: The weekly press, 16 Sept. 1914, p. 31
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