Record Details
Installation of turbines and generators--men carry bolts
University of Idaho Digital Collections
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Installation of turbines and generators--men carry bolts |
| Creator | Fuller, H.W. |
| Date | 1942-12-29 |
| Description | Bolts and nuts weighing 193 pounds, couple the sections of the shafts for the two 75,000 kilowatt Shasta generators being installed in the Grand Coulee Dam left powerhouse. The bolts are five inches in diameter and 25 inches long. Each section of the two part shaft is provided with a flange, in which 16 holes have been bored. The bolts will be inserted in these openings, and the nuts, weighing 37 pounds each, attached. To tighten these, a huge steel wrench, three feet long, turned by the... |
| Subject | Power plants--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam--1940-1950; |
| Coverage | United States--Washington--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam |
| Source | PG 94, Box 1, Installation of Turbines and Generators, 3 10940 |
| 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/1022 |
