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HOW IT WORKS.

Fig. 188.
Fig. 188. —Pelton wheel mounted, with nozzle in position.

The wheel, which may be of any diameter from six inches to ten feet, has buckets set at regular intervals round the circumference, sticking outwards. Each bucket, as will be gathered from our illustration of an enormous 5,000 h.p. wheel (Fig. 187), is composed of two cups. A nozzle is so arranged as to direct

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