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What (who) is Pelton wheel - definition
Pelton wheel
![Assembly of a Pelton wheel at [[Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station]], Germany.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walchenseewerk Pelton 120.jpg?width=200 "Assembly of a Pelton wheel at [[Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station]], Germany.")
TYPE OF TURBINE
Pelton turbine; Pelton-type; Pelton Turbines
The Pelton wheel or Pelton Turbine is an impulse-type water turbine invented by American inventor Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s. The Pelton wheel extracts energy from the impulse of moving water, as opposed to water's dead weight like the traditional overshot water wheel.
Pelton wheel
TYPE OF TURBINE
Pelton turbine; Pelton-type; Pelton Turbines
·add. ·- A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
Pelton, County Durham
VILLAGE IN COUNTY DURHAM, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
West Pelton; Pelton, Durham
Pelton is a village and electoral ward in County Durham, in England. The population of the village and ward taken at the 2011 census was 8,250.
