Turbine
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- OBJECT TYPE
- WATER/PELTON WHEEL/INSTRUCTIONAL
- DATE
- 1954
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1986.0182.001
- MANUFACTURER
- GILKES, GILBERT & GORDON LTD.
- MODEL
- 15
- LOCATION
- Kendal, England
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 5587
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 8
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- VARIOUS CAST METALS, SPRING STEEL, ALUMINUM ANDNICKLE PLATED BRASS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 106.5 cm
- Width
- 128.5 cm
- Height
- 120.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Industrial Technology
- Category
- Power sources
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- GILKES
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Kendal
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- MID 1950'S TO 1986
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
Used to demostrate principles, power & efficiency of the impluse turbine. - Technical
-
One of the two main types of turbine currently in use for power generation, the impulse turbine being used in high head situations. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 Cast plate reading "GILKES/WHEN ORDERING SPARES/QUOTE ORDER NO. 5587/BHP 4.87, FT.HEAD 100,RPM 730/ KENDAL/ENGLAND"/.1 cast lettering reading "GILKES 5587 1958"/.1 black lettering on meters reading "MADE BY/ FOUNDROMETERS LTD./LEEDS/REVOMETER/NO. 66399/R1:1" & "FEET HEAD OF WATER/FOUNDROMETERS LTD./LEEDS/224726"/ (see decoration details).
- Missing
- Essentially complete aside from water reservoir & can be erected as a working demonstration of one of the two main types of water turbe.
- Finish
- Painted medium grey enamel/plated parts/black synthetic meter casing/black wrinkle painted meter casing/ white meter faces/clear colourless synthetic windows.
- Decoration
- .4 plates reading "PEERLESS PUMP/HYDRODYNAMICS DIVISION/FMC CORPORATION/MFR. SER. NO. A229402" (see Supp. Inf.) & "MODEL PE2X21 2X8-S/PEERLESS PUMP/HYDRODYNAMICS DIVISION/FMC CORPORATION/INDIANAPOLIS, IND. LOS ANGELES CALIF./SERIAL DT303630"/.4 "PEERLESS PUMP DIV." cast on casing.
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GILKES, GILBERT & GORDON LTD., Turbine, circa 1954, Artifact no. 1986.0182, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1986.0182.001/
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