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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.
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Title:
Steel Casing From Turbine
Creator:
Pomeroy, F.B.
Date Created (ISO Standard):
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.
Subjects:
dam construction
Location:
Washington (State);Grant County;Grand Coulee Dam
Latitude:
47.953688
Longitude:
-118.989688
Series:
Series 7: Equipment for Construction, Transportation, and Maintenance
Publisher:
University of Idaho Library Digital Initiatives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/
Source:
Army Corps of Engineers Dam Construction photographs, 1933-1965, PG 94, University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives
Finding Aid:
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv165618
Source Identifier:
94-3-8167
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg
Language:
eng

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"Steel Casing From Turbine", Columbia River Basin Project: Dam Construction in the Pacific Northwest, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/crbp/items/crbp973.html
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