Rotor Installation
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Title |
Rotor Installation |
Title Caption |
A 527-ton rotor, for the first of the 108,000 kilowatt generating sets, being fitted inside the stator or stationary section of main unit L-3. Two 350-ton cranes, joined together by means of a 60-ton lifting beam consisting of two single-trees and a double-tree, lower the rotor into place. The load was the heaviest ever lifted at the dam site. |
Description |
A 527-ton rotor, for the first of the 108,000 kilowatt generating sets, being fitted inside the stator or stationary section of main unit L-3. Two 350-ton cranes, joined together by means of a 60-ton lifting beam consisting of two single-trees and a double-tree, lower the rotor into place. The load was the heaviest ever lifted at the dam site. |
Date Original |
1941-06-05 |
Author |
United States. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Reclamation.; photographer unknown |
Library of Congress Subject Headings |
Hydroelectric generators--testing--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Hydroelectric generators--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Employees--Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.); Gantry cranes--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam |
TGM Subject |
Hydroelectric generators; Hoisting machinery; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam |
Type |
Image |
Genre |
Photographs |
Geographic Area |
United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site; United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam |
Identifier |
cg040b07f3pg209.jpg |
Publisher |
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/ |
Source |
Is found in A History of the Columbia Basin Project (vol. 9, pg. 209), Cage 40, Frank A. Banks Papers https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg40.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes |
No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was created by the United States government. |
Digitization |
Original photographic prints scanned at 24 bit color, with 4000 pixels by the long side, for master TIFF files on an Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. Prints were then batch translated into JPEG files. These JPEGs were then added to the CONTENTdm database at WSU Libraries. |
Notes |
Part of Western Waters Digital Library, http://westernwaters.org/ |
Language |
English |
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