Record Details
Equipment for construction, transportation, and maintenance--steel casing from turbine
University of Idaho Digital Collections
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Equipment for construction, transportation, and maintenance--steel casing from turbine |
| Creator | Pomeroy, F.B. |
| Date | 1941-04-03 |
| Description | One steel casing for a giant turbine at the Grand Coulee Dam makes a full carload. Water from the Columbia River, falling through this 16-foot runner at the rate of 141 tons a second, will drive the biggest electric generator ever built, to produce electricity for the manufacture of aluminum, vital need of the defense program. |
| Subject | Dam construction--Washington (State)--1940-1950; |
| Coverage | United States--Washington--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam |
| Source | PG 94, Box 1, Folder Equipment for Construction, Transportation, and Maintenance, 3 8167 |
| Publisher | University of Idaho Library Digital Initiatives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/ University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives |
| Relation | Columbia River Basin Project Collection http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/crbp/ |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Image;StillImage |
| Format | image/jpg |
| Rights | Material produced by the United States Army Corp of Engineers. In Public Domain. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ |
| Identifier | http://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/crbproj/id/973 |
