Pelton Water-Wheel Bucket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1901
notes: label: Description
content: This is a rectangular bucket divided by a central splitter edge into two hollow semicylindrical compartments. The bucket is designed to receive and divide the jet upon the slitter edge and direct the water to either side, discharging at the sides. No provision is made for the flow of water in a radial direction along bucket, and the outer end of the bucket makes sharp angles with the sides and bottom. The extreme lip of the bucket is very slightly depressed, suggesting the notched lip developed later. The back of the bucket is provided with lugs, which slip over the rim of the wheel center to which it is attached by the bolts passing through the lugs and rim parallel to the shaft. The bucket is made of cast iron, measures about 11.5 inches wide, and weighs 30 pounds. This bucket was made about 1901.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: This description comes from the 1939 Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States Museum Bulletin 173 by Frank A. Taylor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Bulletin 173
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Frank A. Taylor. Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States National Museum, Bulletin 173
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Pelton Water Wheel Company, San Francisco, California
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.310386
label: catalog number
content: 310386
label: accession number
content: 117363
objectType: label: Object Name
content: turbine, hydraulic, bucket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 11 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in; 29.21 cm x 29.845 cm x 15.875 cm