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Title:
Steel Casing From Turbine (Equipment for construction, transportation, and maintenance)
Creator:
Pomeroy, F.B.
Date Created:
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 equipment for construction, transportation, and maintenance
Location:
Washington (State) Grant County Grand Coulee Dam
Latitude:
47.953688
Longitude:
-118.989688
Publisher:
University of Idaho Library Digital Initiatives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/
Source:
PG 94, Box 1, Folder Equipment for Construction, Transportation, and Maintenance, 3 8167
Source Identifier:
94-3-8167
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg
Source
Preferred Citation:
"Steel Casing From Turbine (Equipment for construction, transportation, and maintenance)", Columbia River Basin Project: Dam Construction in the Pacific Northwest, Digital Initiatives, University of Idaho Library
Reference Link:
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/crbp/items/crbp973.html
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.
Standardized Rights:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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