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  • Title: Generator
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    • Stator of a Service Generator

    • Power plants
    • The stator of a 12,500 kv-a. station service generator is carefully gone over with a vacuum cleaner. Inside this cavity will be installed a 40-ton rotor which will be whirled at 400 r.p.m. by the turbine embedded in the concrete below.
    • Rotor of Westinghouse Generator

    • Hydroelectric generators; Power plants--dams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Hoisting machinery; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
    • Lowering the 537-ton rotor of Westinghouse 108,000-kw. generator L-1 into place.
    • Stator of Shasta Generator

    • Hydroelectric generators; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Hoisting machinery
    • Shasta generator (G.E. stator. Stator parts arrived on cars, lying flat. Crane is here turning the part upright, for placement on the temporary erection platform, between L-2 and L-3 units.
    • Rotor Installation in Unit B Generator

    • Hydroelectric generators; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
    • West Powerhouse: Building the rotor for the Shasta, Unit B, generator. The magnetic circuit for the field poles is built up of thin steel plates, forming a cylinder around the spider and shaft.
    • Wall of Generator Pit

    • Power plants--dams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Drilling & boring machinery; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
    • West wall of L-8 generator pit, through which workmen are cutting an opening for the penstock of a Shasta turbine. The wall was first drilled, then the center section will be blasted. Photo of workmen operating chippings guns.
    • Generator Control Cubical

    • Control rooms--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
    • This is the generator control cubicle of the unit-control station for the No. 1, 75,000-kilowatt Shasta unit in pit L-7. It is situated in the governor gallery at elevation 951. The station will start the turbine, indicate the loads and...
    • Main Unit Generator

    • Hydroelectric power; Power plants
    • By close of 1939 all exterior walls and roof slabs had been completed for main units, L-1 to L-9 and the control bay walls reached to elevation 1012.
    • Main Unit Generator

    • Concrete; Power houses
    • Looking east into the main unit generator room of the left power house during the course of construction. On the left is shown the type of scaffolding erected by the contractor to provide access to the wall pours. On the platform in the foreground...
    • Columbia Basin Project History; Text of Volume X (1942)

    • Dam construction; Dams; Power plants; Reservoirs; Spillways; Hydroelectric power; Housing; Construction; Plans; Government officials; Excavation; Surveying; Irrigation; Rivers; Pedestrian bridges; Sewerage; Hydraulic facilities; Civil service
    • Table of Contents and selected material from volume ten of the Columbia Basin History Project for the Grand Coulee Dam
    • Columbia Basin Project History; Text of Volume IX (1941)

    • Dam construction; Dams; Power plants; Reservoirs; Spillways; Hydroelectric power; Housing; Construction; Plans; Government officials; Excavation; Surveying; Irrigation; Rivers; Pedestrian bridges; Sewerage; Hydraulic facilities; Civil service
    • Table of Contents and selected material from volume nine of the Columbia Basin History Project for the Grand Coulee Dam
    • Crane Preparing to Lift Intermediate Shaft of L-1 Generator

    • Hydroelectric generators; Power plants--dams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Hoisting machinery; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
    • Crane hooking on to the 24-foot intermediate shaft of generating unit L-1. Hinged fixtures facilitate bringing the shaft into a vertical position, with the fixture at the left uppermost.
    • Generator Pit from Above

    • Water tunnels--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
    • Looking down on work in pit No. 8, from the top of the wall at El. 991, between pits 8 and 7. Reinforcing steel for the throat of the draft tube has been placed.
    • Mimic Board of Generator Connections

    • Control rooms--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Diagrams
    • This mimic board in the main control room shows the interconnections of generators, transformers, power circuits, associated switch yard equipment, and the outgoing transmission lines, as arranged on December 14, 1942, except that Spokane lines...

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