T.A. Gillespie Company, engineers and contractors - water works and pipe lines, railroad and tunnel construction, hydroelectric plants. (1912) (14574450247)
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Title: T.A. Gillespie Company, engineers and contractors : water works and pipe lines, railroad and tunnel construction, hydroelectric plants.
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: T.A. Gillespie Company.
Subjects: Pipe Pipe, Steel
Publisher: New York : T.A. Gillespie Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization
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the fear of a possible rush of water, and in order to provideagainst same a concrete bulkhead, 14 feet in thickness, with a cast steel door, was installed. Between the bulkhead and shaft were erected two (2) Worthington, 8-stage, 500-gallon, centrifugalpumps, operated by 250 H. P. General Electric motors, water cooled, and of submergible type, which pumpswould discharge water to the surface in one lift. In addition to these were installed two (2) Jeanesville pumps, Hazleton pattern, with a capacity of 400gallons per minute for a 400-foot head, and one i 1 I Cameron pump of the same capacity and lift. Watern these pumps being discharged into two (2) consecutive lodgments driven off the shaft, and in each o\installed three 3 Jeanesville pumps of same type and capacity as above. Total capacity ofplant discharging to surface was 2,200 gallons per minute. .ii exai i duplii ate of the pumping plant described above was installed on the west side of this contract. 4 ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS
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