Record Details
Installation of turbines and generators--needle valve on base
University of Idaho Digital Collections
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Installation of turbines and generators--needle valve on base |
| Creator | Fuller, H.W. |
| Date | 1944-11-24 |
| Description | An 84-inch needle valve being placed on erection base in bay R-5 of the right powerhouse at Grand Coulee Dam. Eight of these needle valves, transferred from Boulder Dam, are being temporarily installed in the turbine pits by use of steel reducers (elbows) joining the valve with the 18-foot in diameter penstock tubes. A portion of the stream flow of the Columbia River is to be passed through those needle valves during the low water season. The flow through the needle valves, in addition to... |
| 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 12517 |
| 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/1077 |
