PELTON WHEEL


Meaning of PELTON WHEEL in English

/pel"tn/

a high-pressure impulse water turbine in which one or more free jets of water are directed against the buckets of the rotor.

[ 1880-85; named after L. A. Pelton (d. 1908), U.S. engineer, its inventor ]

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