Excerpt from Modern Turbine Practice and Water-Power Plants The present European practice has only been evolved during the last ten years and is yet in a transition state, so that changes and improvements are continually being made. The American standard type of turbines has not been shown in the illustrations, as every hydraulic-power engineer is sufficiently familiar with it through the engineering press and the turbine catalogs. On account of the growing importance of the steam-turbine and its close relation to the hydraulic turbine, the writer has included a chapter on this subject. . In the second part of this book will be found information and data about matters connected with turbine plants. These were either taken from the writer's personal experience or collected from recent volumes of the American and European engineering press. Of course there are instances where the refinement in turbine design and construction here recommended does not pay, being either unnecessary or impracticable. For example, the backwoods sawmill, moving with the pioneer settler into newly opened territory, will do best with the roughest kind of a turbine plant. The opinion of engineers in regard to many statements made in this book may vary- from that of the writer, and no hard and fast rules can be laid down for water-power developments, as every case demands a careful and intelligent judgment, requiring greater experience on the part of the planning engineer than most other classes of construction work. At the end of this book will be found Mr. Allan V. Garrett's paper on speed regulation of turbines, and the writer begs to thank here Mr. Garrett and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers for their kind permission to reprint this paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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