Record Details
Installation of turbines and generators--completed rotor
University of Idaho Digital Collections
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Installation of turbines and generators--completed rotor |
| Creator | Fuller, H.W. |
| Date | 1942-11-28 |
| Description | A tight fit. The clearance between the huge 25-foot rotors and the stators of the two 75,000 kilowatt Shasta Dam generators, being installed at Grand Coulee Dam to make additional power available for war industries, is only 5/8 inch. Lowering this 450 ton wheel into place, the operators of the two powerhouse cranes, that jointly supported the load, were guided by workmen, stationed around the rim, who inserted sticks between the stationary and moving parts to measure the clearance and prevent... |
| 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 10872 |
| 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/1038 |
