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Noun Concept
Categories: Water turbines, American inventions, 19th-century inventions
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Pelton wheel  Pelton-type  Pelton turbine  Pelton turbines
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The Pelton wheel or Pelton Turbine is an impulse-type water turbine invented by American inventor Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s. Wikipedia
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The Pelton wheel or Pelton Turbine is an impulse-type water turbine invented by American inventor Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s. Wikipedia
Type of turbine Wikidata
A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity. Wiktionary
IS A
water turbine
PART OF
Forstsee power station
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR
Lester Allan Pelton
NAMED AFTER
Lester Allan Pelton
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Pelton wheel
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Pelton wheel
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Pelton wheel
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Pelton-type, Pelton turbine, Pelton turbines
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Pelton turbine

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