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HOW IT WORKS.

much more of the water's energy than was possible with the old-fashioned wheel.

Fig. 187.
Fig. 187. —A Pelton wheel which develops 5,000 horse-power. Observe the shape of the double buckets.

The turbine, of which we have already spoken in our third chapter, is now the favourite hydraulic engine. Some water-turbines work on much the same principle as the Parsons steam-turbine; others resemble the De Laval. Among

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