Knight Foundry
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Knight Foundry, also known as Knight's Foundry and Shops, is a cast iron foundry and machine shop in Sutter Creek, California. It was established in 1873 to supply heavy equipment and repair facilitie
Knight Foundry exterior
Knight Foundry
Two Knight lathes in the machine shop
Water turbine
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A water turbine is a rotary machine that converts kinetic energy and potential energy of water into mechanical work.
Knight Foundry
…equipment and repair facilities to the gold mines and timber industry of the Mother Lode. Samuel N. Knight developed a high speed, cast iron impulse water turbine which was a forerunner of the Pelton wheel design. Knight Wheels were used in some of the first hydroelectric plants in California, Utah, and Oregon…
The runner of the small water turbine
The construction of a Ganz water Turbo Generator in Budapest in 1886
Roman turbine mill at Chemtou, Tunisia. The tangential water inflow of the mill race made the submerged horizontal wheel in the shaft turn like a true turbine.
A Francis turbine runner, rated at nearly one million hp (750 MW), being installed at the Grand Coulee Dam, United States.